Hey! I guess I'll get some conversation started, this interests me too and I've been doing the same the last few years. I added a page to my site [0] to keep updated with all the tech I use so I'll do some copy-pasting of some standouts. Note that I use Linux and Android, no Apple products here.
- EndeavourOS - easy to install arch-based linux distro
- KDE - desktop environment
- Framework 13 - repairable laptop
- Pixel 9 Pro Fold - my fancy phone cause I like reading books with pictures
- Firefox - web browser (but shoutout to zen browser)
- Kagi - search engine
- BitWarden - password manager
- Dark Reader - dark mode for any site
- Indie Wiki - redirects to non-fandom wikis (cause fandom is cancer)
- AppFlowy - workspace tool (eg. open source notion)
- Notesnook - encrypted note-taking app
- GitLab - open source code hosting platform
- SourceGit - my git gui of choice
- Godot - game engine
- Zed - rust-based code editor
- Claude Code - anthropic's ai coding assistant
- REAPER - daw of choice
- OBS Studio - streaming and recording
- Astro - the static site generator that built my site
- Cloudflare Pages - site hosting
- Ghost - used when a family or friend needs a simple site or blog
I tried to use Thunderbird as my email client but I kept defaulting to webmail, but that seems like a good option as you're looking for an email client.
Every time a new iPhone comes up people on hacker news pine for a new mini, which I understand. But everytime someone has to bring back up that the 12 and 13 minis were the worst selling sku two gens in a row, with at one point the 13 mini only attributing to 3% of 13 sales [1].
I'm sorry, but the market has spoken. And there's Android phones in that form factor if you really want it.
When I looked for a new phone on gsmarena with a similar form factor as my old one, there were pretty much no options. So few even, my old phone appeared in the results. I too would be interested.
I'm no Google apologist (I use ecosia personally), but did you try using searching in quotes? That should force the search to only find specifically your query directly as spelled. Just curious if you did try it and there was still that "fuzziness."
I've kept TB Beta installed but still go back to FairEmail. But I'm not an email power user, I really only stick to it because the widgets are better. No dark mode for the K9/TB widget is a dealbreaker. And even then FairEmail goes beyond that in allowing transparent widgets.
Not to hang around like a bad smell every time they come up, but just think it’s worth noting they are not open source anymore, instead being “source available”. Really gives me the old school “greenwashing” vibes Microsoft used to do with their Shared Source licenses. Poor showing considering they used others work to get to where they are, then shut the door when others started doing the same.
I would say feel free to give Waterfox a try - I’ve tried to strike the balance of useable web and privacy, with the added enhancement of Oblivious DNS enabled by default.
In this case I had completely missed the bad smell, so I appreciate the comment cause it prompted me to look up the whole situation. yikes. I was already planning on moving to another fork soon since I wasn't using most of floorp's power features, so this just expedited that.
Also from your language it sounds like you're a Waterfox dev? If so thanks for all your hard work on open source software! I haven't tried waterfox in years, I will definitely give it a go after uninstalling floorp.
Ignore the dissenters, I agree. people will pay $15 for Netflix and use it once a month but won't pay $11 for YouTube that they use every day. the insistence that YouTube should be a service that just houses all of our videos for free in perpetuaty never made sense to me.
Agreed. Youtube Premium has got to be the most efficient subscription I have, by far. Also, I like that it provides more support to the creators I follow than ads would, because I appreciate the effort they put into the videos I enjoy.
I sorely wish this was the case. I have a W11 install now but always have an extra SSD for a Linux install (right now EndeavourOS with Cinnamon), but there's little things that keep me away from using it fulltime. The majority of them are gaming related, but there are other reasons. Last hiccup I encountered was trying to watch something with a friend over Discord, only to find out audio sharing is nonexistent. There seemed to be a way to pipe all audio through Pipewire mic input and have it work that way, but then I'd lose the noise threshold functionality. Ended up just booting into Windows anyway.
I'm really hoping with SteamOS, the Steam Deck, and the Linus daily challenge videos, the Linux desktop can get more love, but it's just not there for the majority of people yet.
I'm on W11 as well and enjoy it over W10 for a variety of reasons (mostly gaming and HDR related), but instead of adding to that noise I just wanted to point out that this change is in Windows 10 as well. From the link, last sentence in the second paragraph:
"As it turns out, Microsoft slipped the update into the final patch Tuesday of 2021 for both Windows 10 and Windows 11."
My HD runs incessantly on Win10, it's SATA, not SSD. Win 10 already pushed out an upgrade ad on my desktop today to my dismay, just installed win10 2 weeks ago, because I no longer had a choice.
Most of the time the HD grind is caused by Chrome scanning my files, but still, I wonder if all the verbose logging and tracking that Win 10+ does now is what made them recommend upgrading to SSDs for the OS'es.
I'm also pretty sure that Win11 has a lot of structural changes made to eventually inject ads into everything as a back-up MS-Revenue Stream plan, so I'll wait for the usual mandatory to update anyway, after there is no longer a choice.
Win 10 since the first insider builds was a terrible experience on mechanical HDDs.
Maybe it's their devs not having HDDs anymore. Who knows. I'm pretty sure it's not the volume of data being read/written. Just a lot of more smaller reads/writes or less attempts at latency-hiding.
Be it the anti-malware, less carefully written system apps or whatever. I think especially XAML stuff had terrible start-up times on HDDs. I remember filing a feedback item because after booting up my laptop it took more than 40s to open up calculator.
The first thing I did when I got my ATV4K was change the TV button to go to the home screen instead of the TV app and have not used the app for anything. A far cry from ads being on the home screen itself.
- EndeavourOS - easy to install arch-based linux distro
- KDE - desktop environment
- Framework 13 - repairable laptop
- Pixel 9 Pro Fold - my fancy phone cause I like reading books with pictures
- Firefox - web browser (but shoutout to zen browser)
- Kagi - search engine
- BitWarden - password manager
- Dark Reader - dark mode for any site
- Indie Wiki - redirects to non-fandom wikis (cause fandom is cancer)
- AppFlowy - workspace tool (eg. open source notion)
- Notesnook - encrypted note-taking app
- GitLab - open source code hosting platform
- SourceGit - my git gui of choice - Godot - game engine
- Zed - rust-based code editor
- Claude Code - anthropic's ai coding assistant
- REAPER - daw of choice
- OBS Studio - streaming and recording
- Astro - the static site generator that built my site
- Cloudflare Pages - site hosting
- Ghost - used when a family or friend needs a simple site or blog
I tried to use Thunderbird as my email client but I kept defaulting to webmail, but that seems like a good option as you're looking for an email client.
[0] https://suarez.fm/tech/
Edited to fix formatting.