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I would use something like Transcribro for voice input. It works really well, doesn’t require internet, is actually Open Source (unlike futo, also futo cofounder is a cryptofascist), and is on Accrescent (preferred) or GitHub releases.

Honestly, I thought the post may have been making a joke about GIMP sucking or something, cus half the time I see GIMP it is people hating on its (admittedly) not-great UX.

Librewolf offers a setting to re-enable FF Sync. There are similar toggles for other things.

You say “all the privacy settings on”, but what does that mean. I assume FFP but probably not RFP. I also assume it keeps JS JIT enabled which is a massive attack surface. I am not going to get into more detail but if people are looking for a more security/privacy focused Firefox fork, use Librewolf. If all you are looking for is Firefox with the privacy settings on, just use Firefox. Even with Librewolf, you can (mostly) replicate the experience by using Phoenix or Arkenfox with vanilla Firefox. I recommend everyone reconsider using a fork that is amounts to a few preinstalled extensions and just some (good) default settings. Using a fork just introduces a new party into the mix, which at best slows down how fast you get (security) updates from upstream, and at worst leads to supply chain attacks.

That being said, I keep seeing people talk about how much they like Waterfox. I tried it and figured it wasn’t for me. That isn’t me saying that it isn’t the right choice for others. I would love to better understand what people enjoy about Waterfox over/instead of Firefox/Librewolf/Zen/etc., pros/cons and the like.

I don’t like Brave or the amount of bloat. Sadly what is missing from basically all Chromium forks is even basic browser anti-fingerprinting. The only other real example I can think of is Cromite, which is what i recommend people use instead of Brave.

Okular by KDE

I would prefer webapps to native if there was a protocol to fully load the page and disable network traffic for apps that work fully offline. It is more secure to run an app in the browser because off the layers of isolation in modern browsers. Native apps can access all sorts of information and system resources, which could be used to compromise the host OS.

I would prefer webapps to native if there was a protocol to fully load the page and disable network traffic for apps that work fully offline.

Does Slackware not having rolling releases for packages. I legit know nothing about Slackware other than it isnt for me.

Security and bug fixes have made Plasma 6 run better for me. Wayland support is better now too (which matters to me). Minor features that improve usability. Newer kernel means i can use newer features, which some of the apps I use depend on. The main thing with your setup I was surprised about is that it isn’t an LTS kernel (from what I can tell). If you are just not updating and not using LTS software (i can’t tell), then you are missing plenty of security fixes.

Why are you using KDE5 and an old kernel, and not just having updated software?

Sound like exactly what I have been wanting, though i will never use this fork for something so small and without a Flatpak.

Valhiem

A browser is a while different beast. Firefox has half as many lines of code as the Linux kernel, just for comparison. Security must be topnotch since the that model is to treat the website as if it is already malicious. Even with all of Firefox’s developers, it lags behind Chromium in sandboxing/isolation and exploit mitigations.

• Most “Open source” LLMs are really just open weights, which is useless without the training data. This dilutes the definition of OSS. There is no way to train the model as a normal person (aka not Google or Meta, etc)
• LLM producers don’t credit the OSS they trained on, no attribution. Most models violate the licenses of all their training data (eg. GPL).
• LLM scraper bots put high stress on server infrastructure, creating a DDOS attack.

Combine this with Librera Reader and you can listen to eBooks easily.

If I had to guess, they probably don’t use the APIs, inside using scrapping of some sort.

Maybe a setup FIDO2 LUKS unlocking, but that requires a security key: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/security-keys/

You could setup LUKS TPM unlocking.

To be more clear, antivirus in general are mostly scams because they are advertised to do much more than they are actually capable (especially proprietary ones that act as spyware such as Norton or Avast, which have been caught selling user data). Hash based antivirus solutions (such as ClamAV) aren’t effective either because they rely on “badness enumeration”, in which you try to determine all the bad samples (through a sample list(s)) and alert or delete them when detected. This isn’t a good solution because a threat actor only has to add for example a single whitespace character into the code and it will produce a wildly different hash (which has not been sampled before). Badness enumeration is shit way to deal with real problems, much better is an allowlist approach, such as a permission system where to minimize the access given and soften the security until the app runs.

TLDR: Antivirus bad at job of stopping malware, and sandboxed apps good for security of your device.