Not the only ways to do it by far, but I do agree with you that most people just pay for streaming services.

People don’t pirate music

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Precisely this. Consumer VPNs are not tools for security or anonymity. They won’t protect you from most kinds of fingerprinting or tracking beyond IP-based tracking. They have relatively specific uses. I recommend Privacy Guides’ article on them for further reading: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

It says in the article.

Law enforcement use CSS to pinpoint the location of phones often with greater accuracy than other techniques such as cell site location information (CSLI) and without needing to involve the phone company at all. CSS can also log International Mobile Subscriber Identifiers (IMSI numbers) unique to each SIM card, or hardware serial numbers (IMEIs) of all of the mobile devices within a given area. Some CSS may have advanced features allowing law enforcement to intercept communications in some circumstances.

Looks like they aren’t using “IMSI catcher” because it only covers one of the uses of those devices.

can’t imagine you would have many problems on opensuse tumbleweed

I use Firefox and I literally am a woke vegan.

This is why I switched to using Migadu as my email provider with my own URL. They make no qualms about saying email is inherently insecure, but they’re cheap, have great customer service, and they’re independent.

New HeliBoard release just came out yesterday, so no, development has not stopped.

I think the original commenter suggested autism because of OP’s rather… peculiar hyperfixation. Hyperfixations on atypical things are common in people on the spectrum.

To me, it’s either that or OP is very very young.

EDIT: also, star trek rules

For standalone desktops, Hyprland is undeniably your best base at the moment to write a window manager.

Well, it took him more than 2/3 of the post to mention hyprland, so I’ll give him props for that.

I recommend Lawnchair!

I’ve heard nothing but good things about it. The only issue I’ve ever seen people call out is that by the very nature of the business, you don’t actually own the domain you register on Njalla. You’re basically renting it from them.

Wayland development is also well under way for Xfce.

It’s basically focused on establishing good community-centered governance, cleaning up the codebase, standardizing workflows (reconciling disparate parts of nix), and (I think?) eventually reimplementing the whole thing in Rust instead of C++.