Is there a reason you use both waterfox and zen? I’ve been liking waterfox.

I read this as “broken sphincter?” for some reason

Appreciate the link! I sifted through several posts about this but hadn’t run across Proton’s reply.

Oh really? I’m trying not to get swept up in the hivemind of Reddit, but the consensus over there seems to be that this kind of partnership is even worse than a simple ad read? I don’t really know.

I haven’t heard of Zen and just checked out the wiki on it.

There are so many browsers! It’s hard to decide. I’ve tried quite a few over the years. Been running Brave as primary for 3-4 years.

I appreciate the Reddit link. Yikes. I’ve noticed the enshittification of Brave but didn’t know all the bad stuff they’ve done.

I do like that Brave works well on all my devices and sync is reliable. I don’t like running different browsers on diff platforms.

Time to do some testing and research…

It’s so hard to find good things as it is. Adding in politics of devs adds yet another layer to it!

I recently started using FUTO keyboard and then learned someone they associate with is a bad dude.

It’s like, come on guys. I’m trying to degoogle, avoid enshittification, and be privacy and security aware… and then there’s this curveball that I have to factor in too.

I’m using waterfox as my dedicated porn browser and have found few faults. Maybe I’ll go that direction for my main browser.

I tried LibreWolf and had issues that I can’t remember now.

I read the article.

But also I’m out of the loop on why ppl hate Brave. Can someone clue me in?

Is there a better cross-platform browser? I like to use the same one across devices.

How does this affect battery life? Seems like a lot of background activities going on. But the concept is fantastic.

TLDR: It’s 99% good and you should feel comfortable using it.

I like Twine on F-droid

Edit: Actually nvm. I’m back to Pluma from play store as it’s the only RSS reader that I can find that is pretty lightweight and pulls the full story.

I don’t like this, but how can I explain to a family member that this is more than just hand-wavy bad and instead give a practical reason that would cause them to care?

People love syncthing but I spent about 20-30 min on setup and found it confusing once I got beyond 2 devices. There are a couple comments in this thread between me and someone else about different setup options with syncthing.

I have been relatively happy with folder sync pro and nextcloud though. It’s worth noting that changes only instantly push when they’re made on Android first. If you edit/add/remove a file that’s in a synced folder from a computer, then folder sync pro on Android will simply use the sync interval that you set (I have mine at 15 min and have seen no battery hit, can set it down to 5 min). You can also just manually hit the sync button in FSP. But that was just one element that I was troubleshooting and thought sync was broken, but nope, that’s just how it works depending on what device did the edit/add/remove.

How do you set up syncthing with a host/client configuration?

I planned on setting it up with 5 devices but as soon as I got to 3 devices I started having issues and didn’t like the structure conceptually of “everything syncs to each other” vs having a “source of truth” with 2-way sync.

TBF my issues with syncthing were probably user error but still frustrated me enough that I bailed.

It really surprised me how many services I was relying on from Google when I really took stock. I’ve been weaning off for a few weeks and I expect the process to take some weeks/months still.

I just bought a Pixel to use GrapheneOS because I share your same opinion.

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It took about 2 days of using nextcloud files across devices to experience unreliable syncing from Nextcloud on Android.

I installed folder sync pro on android and that has helped a lot, but it still irks me to use 2 tools when 1 should do the job.

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A lot of my friction moving from 1PW to BW was due to TOTP (2fa codes) being stored inside 1PW.

So now that I have those codes in a different service than my password manager, I hope it’s a less painful process as you describe.