Navi has a built-in download manager, it is not a standalone download manager. I use Navi as a light web browser for websites in case I never a browser on phone.

I do not compile IceCat, it’s available in different repositories.

I am using Graphene abd I disabled Vanadium due to it being Chromium essentially. I use Navi or Download Navi from F-Droid. It does not have as much web functionality as Vanadium, but I don’t use phone for websites, I read websites on computer or laptop, but occassionally something might need a browser momentarily so that’s what Navi for.

If you want a web browser for privacy, I would suggest use F-Droid and in Settings under Anti-features, turn off every option in there, do a search for browser and see what you think of the options. It’s either cheap development or old. A mobile web browser that protects privacy doesn’t seem to exist with the capabilitied of a Firefox.

I’m a strong believer that there is no such thing as a privacy respecting browser that is closed source. For that reason, I use IceCat on computer.

How did you become a pretentious reject? It’s implied by your grandious idiom.

Corrrct, there’s no assurance with download APK’s from 3rd party websites.

A person could see check if whichever app makes the apk available through their own website or Github, I would trust that, otherwise get everything from F-Droid.

For settng up a new phone, the only choices are to get everything from F-Droid or manually downloading the APK files.

Since you did it via manipulation and intent for deception, you show yourself to be a coward, and pretentious at that. You’re not someone of principal, but rather too weak intellectually to sway someone by percise and thorough explanation.

Aurora Store is safe and clean, there’s no reason to be concerned about using it.

Although the code for it is good, in order to Aurora Store you must have your own individual Google account. The anonymous account has been rate limited because it was ierating as a shared account for all Aurora users, and Google can’t data mine personal info when thousands of people are using one account.

You can install and update all apps that are in the Play Store through Aurora Store, but you must have your own account wirh the password to use Aurora Store.

In my view, I consider Aurora as being dead and gone. It’s over, because I am not willing to create a Google account.

Welefon and Simple Dialer

I look for one that allows or protects offensive and insulting statement.

There is a very large difference between what is offensive and what is criminal.

Hate speech does not exist, people use that to silence different views, that is why there is no universally recognize definition of the term that all sides agree on.

Self hosting is always te best way to operate any service.

Primarily Brave, on the odd occassion I might have to check Startpage, but Startpge seems to have a suspicious deal with Google, also Startpage requires a verification process if it detects a VPN or Tor.

SearX can be nice, but being an open search platform, the results can be wildly random bases on which instance of SearX you search on.

Mastodon can be heavy on censorship by banning IP addresses rather than individual accounts. Not banning an account, but IP. So when one instance bans an IP, that means that IP is blocked from all users on that instance.

Twitter has never banned IP addresses, only accounts. Twitter does not keep a list of naughty words that result in immediate ban after posting, and suspended users can still reaxh Twitter to discuss the issue.

It seems that federated platforms are more ban happy than the corporate platforms. If Lemmy and Mastodon really want to challenge the bigger companies, protect offensive posts, protect mockery and insults, people challenging or correct someone’s statement, and distinguish them from actual attacks and degrading words.

Why is it written with collectivist speak? "…reminds us…? Who is the “us”? The collectivist phrasing is disturbing as opposed to using objective terms.

If you want to talk about anything to do with BSD, you can’t do it with a Linux mindset using Linux terminology if you don’t want to lead with your prejudices and ignorance as soon as you start talking.

As a first step starting point, there is no such think as a BSD distribution or “distro”. TrueNAS and pfSense are not and have never been a distribution.

I’m not going to give you all of the info or explain what they are, I’ll leave it at that for you to choose to dismiss it and stay ignorant or read and learn, expand your thinking, and stop crossing one operating system with a different operating system.

You can setup your own instance of hosting a Searx search engine once yo have a domain.

https://searx.github.io/searx/

Are you asking for something like Searx?

There’s no reason to believe a refresh will have GDDR7 due to architecture design, but the top RX 8000 and RTX 5000 will.

If there is a RX 8800 with 16GB of GDDR7 I am definitely buying my first Radeon.

The only thing that still hurts Radeon is encoder and raytracing. Maybe Intel Battlemerge will finally force Radeon to lower release pricing on new graphics hardware since AMD seems to be cool with always losing to nVidia.

For real true freedom I like the ISC license for giving away source code.

The constant argument about companies stealing source code is a cultural problem, not a license issue. Fix the social culture in society so people have ethical standards again, and companies will start to change their amoral behaviour. Not immoral, but amoral.

GPL are fanatics who are leeches off of other peoples work to build anything. I have wondered if that’s why GPLv3 people have never built an operating system like BSD engineers and designers, only a collection of parts from different designers and made them come together.

There is no operating system called GNU with a kernel and native format for installing software. There is no operating system called Linux with system libraries and a format to install software built into Liux natively.

It’s like Stallman built the body of a care and ever dealt with the engine. Linus built an engine but didn’t know how to do anything with an engine like engineer the rest of the body.

Each BSD is it’s own operating system with their own developers. A FreeBSD kernel can’t run OpenSD libraries.

With you adding my RAM, that’s exactly why I say 32GB of 4GB per core, to make sure everything runs while making sure not all hardware is being used so everything runs at max performance.

For example if an 8 core 32GB system is using 6 cores and 14GB, then all programs are running as they should be with ease. But if a 16GB system is using 14GB, there’s not enough memory and might already be starting to pagefile.

Why are GPL fanatics such Marxists?