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FB/Instagram is a for-profit ad-driven platform that relies on fearmongering to keep you addicted to the platform. Keeping yourself addicted to a platform like that and destroying your mental health with it doesn’t help anyone but the corporation that runs the platform.

I use Ironfox also mainly for the plugins. I have the personal stuff on my phone over Tor since I don’t want to pay for a VPN, and I’ve noticed that Ironfox is a lot slower than Vanadium/Cromite for that setup, which both also have JIT disabled

Librewolf has all of the good parts of Brave and none of the shitty parts

If all of the web engines enshittify, you can always curl the HTML/CSS/JS and hand-parse it. Might have suboptimal performance however.

Lemmy is a lot less addictive for me than personalized algorithm-driven TikTok/Reels/Shorts type stuff and has better quality content, but there’s also a lot less content. I blocked internet access for Instagram and other apps on my phone and now I ended up on YT shorts on my computer also

Except then it makes you too depressed to do anything and now people are complaining that you’re burdening them with your being depressed

Yes, but I never said you won’t get pwned. I said that it would limit how it could be done and what damage it could do.

For instance, if you click a link and download something shitty, it can’t just steal your auth tokens on GrapheneOS because all of that is isolated to only the program that uses them. Meanwhile on Windows/Linux there are tons of Python scripts that do that. It would take extra steps on GrapheneOS for someone to use social engineering to hack someone’s Discord/Bank/etc account, which could be enough to prevent it for some people.

One example is on GrapheneOS, programs can’t touch system files due to no root access, and they also can’t access data files for other programs.

I’m not very good at securing Linux, but from what I’ve seen, NixOS leaves a lot to be desired. It doesn’t officially support SELinux and requires a lot of work to make it function properly. It supports other mandatory access control programs, which I’m not really sure how they compare. The store being world readable is another problem. The most obvious issue with that is if you’re doing business work with two clients on the same computer where infrastructure needs to remain confidential, where one client’s programs can read the store and see information about the other clients, even on separate user accounts.

More secure OSes limit what social engineering attacks can take place and what damage they can do.

Reddit is shit at being a community, but it’s far better than being stuck in exclusively Christian nationalist spaces. Even as a right-wing platform, it helped me question my political beliefs and discover my sexuality (which isn’t as important now that I’m in an accepting area, but it fucked up my mental health before then), along with finding loads of information relevant to my hobbies, and it’s also how I found Lemmy. Lemmy/Hexbear is a much better community, but it doesn’t have anywhere near the breadth of information and discussion that Reddit has. Where I live, leftist organizations mostly advertise on Instagram. As far as other productive uses go, Facebook has Marketplace and Groups which can have information that Reddit doesn’t, Youtube has tons of educational content, and TikTok/Instagram/Facebook can be helpful for promoting art or skills. I would agree though that in general, the algorithmic feed-driven platforms are horrible for community, and Reddit being infested with bots and paid actors makes it more questionable.

Reddit is how I got into my self hosting hobby in my teens

GLM 4.5 Air

I think it’s GLM 4.5 Air

Maybe I should start investing in my PC more

Posting responses like these is a mainstream social media trend, so probably

My university is practically owned by weapons manufacturers which sucks. Idk if that’s the norm or not

I know TI had a history of weapons manufacturing, but haven’t they stopped now?

Since you’re logged into your account you already have one