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I posted a guide last year on how to do it on Eternity for Lemmy:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

I have an MSI Bravo 17 for work since this month,
quite happy about it so far.

My experience with MSI is best price/value for hardware specs, but with shitty build quality.

However this one feels quite sturdy compared to earlier MSI laptops.

It can get loud under heavy duty,
but it goes quiet again under low workload,
for now at least, my previous MSI laptop sounded like a jet engine whenever it was powered on.

The one you posted seems particularly suited to run Linux upon, since it’s an all AMD machine, and their Linux support is great.

That would be an anti-virus… x)

Since it would remove spy-ware from your computer.

Thank you for LibreSpeed! <3
Been using it for a few years now,
and it’s become my go-to network speed testing tool

Wayland might be the future,
but today we’re still living in the present…

I was a fan, and tried Wayland,
but it took less then 24hrs before I switched back to X.

Just too many random bugs remain in Wayland rn…

E.g:

• Grayed out screen under HDR
• LookingGlass unable to boot in fullscreen
• Some program icons replaced with Wayland icon when running
• …

= AI bubble

You can use Aegis and/or Yubico Authenticator instead, that’s what I do.

Suyu is the most popular + actively developed afaik.
https://suyu.dev/

They host their code on their own Forgejo instance:
https://git.suyu.dev/explore/repos

Which is more DMCA proof then Github/Gitlab.

I hope ForgeFed will go into production soon,
then we can synchronize the code in between multiple Forgejo instances in a federated fashion.
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59

I went with Manjaro due to the way they do their package releases.

Arch is bleeding edge,
a double edged sword if you ask me,
all the latest versions,
and all the bugs that come along with them.

I’m looking for stability in my daily driver though.

Manjaro keeps releases a few weeks back on their stable branch.
And tests the releases first on their unstable and testing branches.
Resulting in near bleeding edge with enhanced stability on the stable branch.

For me the experience has been:

• Stable
• Easy to use
• Enjoyed all the Arch niceness in the meantime.

Which imo makes it a good distro,
idiots would not make a good distro…

Sure the people behind it made some doubtful decisions in the past, but that doesn’t change the fact that using it has been a bliss.

Additionally, it’s all open source,
so if they would ever turn anti-consumer,
it can be forked into another distro.

As I mentioned earlier, stop the distro hate.
I’m not throwing acquisitions against other distros, instead I let people enjoy whatever flavor of Linux they desire…

By now I helped a fair amount of Arch and other distro users through Lemmy / AUR / Issues, and I also learned a fair amount of Arch / Manjaro and other distro users.

Linux is not the enemy here,
not a single flavor…

Why?

It has been my main distro for years now,
and I have only enjoyed the experience.

2 points you’ll likely mention which do not make it a bad distro:

• The certificate of their website expired twice
• If you use AUR packages,
  sometimes you need to wait with an update since they hold back official repo packages for a few weeks to ensure stability, which AUR packages might depend on.

Stop the distro hate,
it divides the Linux community…
Instead we should unify against M$/iFruit,
and let people use whatever distro they like.

Flatpak:
To limit shady proprietary software from accessing your full storage / hardware.
You can manage the sandbox access through tools like FlatSeal.

Snap:
To ruin your day / user experience.

Both where introduced as a universal way to distribute packages on various distros.

Yes that is the actual site.

LuckyPatcher has been around forever,
and has a good reputation + community.

Never seen anyone mention anything that it might contain malicious code.

The developer receives revenue through donations and showing ads on the site.

Sadly the project is not open source though.
My guess would be to prevent the hacks / patches it uses,
from being patched / made un-usable.

To be 100% sure though,
you’d have to de-compile the app,
and reverse engineer the source code,
which is a very tedious and time consuming task.

What are your sources for debunking mine?
Besides you just not liking to face the truth?

Blanket surveillance is not clickbait,
it’s spyware, and a problem.

But sure continue to stick your head in the sand,
that will surely help humanity beat this problem.

Here are a few examples, but if you do some research like I told you to, you’ll stumble upon many more:

• Apple ignored/ignores disabling of “Share iPhone Analytics”:
  https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-privacy-dsid-analytics-personal-data-test-1849807619
• Apple started scanning your local files even if you do not use iCloud / Apple services:
  https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/
• Apple (allegedly) left in a backdoor to iPhones (likely on purpose and in cooperation with government officials):
  https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2023_kaspersky-discloses-iphone-hardware-feature-vital-in-operation-triangulation-case

Educate yourself fruity,
Apple does spy on you

I hate that nowadays everything comes with pre-installed spyware and that they charge you for it makes it even worse…

• Want a TV? Suck on our Android TV with Google spyware embedded
• Want a phone? Get our Android with Google spyware, or go for an Apple with Apple spyware
• Want a computer? We’ll shove Windows spyware down your throat

Ffs I just want devices that I own to not spy on me, and I can’t even buy them anymore…

Each of them require flashing a custom privacy respecting OS onto it,
and that’s a real problem…

Take a look for yourself with a rooted phone.

Blocker will show you all the recievers/services/activities/providers the app uses,
and will allow you to block them.

https://github.com/lihenggui/blocker

Apps often still work correctly with about 80-90% of their recievers/services/providers blocked, since they’re spyware, which doesn’t add functionality to the app.

XPrivacyLua will allow you to lie to apps when they request sensitive data.

Aditionally it will show you timestamps of what it lied about, to which apps, reveiling what they try to collect on you.

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua

ClassyShark3xodus allows you to decompile and scan apps on the fly,
to check which well known trackers are embedded into it.

https://bitbucket.org/oF2pks/fdroid-classyshark3xodus

Idk if these apps still do it,
since I have not used them for years,
but that’s how I learned about many things like:

• 9GAG contained a face detector service at some point.
• Facebook Messenger requests access to your microphone, even when you are not calling with it.

Android TV is not free though.

You pay with yourself,
your interests / watch habits,
all being collected and sold to the best bidder for “personalized ads”…