wayDroid does let you do that, in a fairly lightweight way (uses Linux namespaces iirc, similar to lxc.

It’s still not full native, which would be even nicer. I play droidfish on my Linux machines using it.

Because hosting costs money, and sustainable services need revenue sources.

News we read was put together by a team of journalists, editors, etc.

Video streaming takes a lot of storage, bandwidth, processing, licensing.

And so on.

Price gouging is bad, but reasonable income is necessary.

Billboard ads that don’t target users and don’t track effectiveness are dangerous financially for advertisers, and would pay much less to ad hosters.

Anonymous, aggregated tracking is a healthy compromise.

I’ll be honest here: I switched my main laptop from slow roll to Linux Mint to install it several months back to install wayDroid. I’ve been happy with the switch. Here are my thoughts:

1. I’d installed Linux Mint + wayDroid on the laptop of various family members, and really liked what I saw
2. Runa-chin has done a great job providing instructions and packages to install it on tumbleweed, but it has quirks that I didn’t feel like fighting. It just works out of the box in Mint.
3. I like having KDE plasma 6 on slow roll, but the cosmetic difference from plasma 5 is minimal (it’s more performance/longer term). I’m ok with sticking with plasma 5 if I get a painless wayDroid installation
4. Slow roll is generally stable, but updates have burned me a few times in the past year. More stability is always nicer
5. Flatpak + appimage + snap (yes, I don’t mind using whatever is officially recommended on the project website of whatever I’m trying to install, though it would be nicer to have more official flatpaks) make it such that while my base is stable, I can still get some pretty recent packages

Kudos for putting together good reasons that you don’t like PPA, while also acknowledging that Mozilla is trying to solve a problem.

Yours is one of the very few reasonable objections I’ve read IMO - when the PPA outrage first erupted, I read through how it worked. Unique ID + website unaware of interaction, but browser recognizing, then feeding it to an intermediate aggregator that anonymizes data by aggregating from multiple users without sharing their IDs, with the aim of trying to find a middle ground seems fair to me. Especially with the opt-out being so easy.

However, your points about classes clickbait encouragement, SEO feeding, and the uncertainty that this will solve the web spamminess as it is are valid concerns.

It is finally upon us.

THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

Terms and conditions apply. It could be the next year, or the year after, or not at all.

I have ~/git for fit repos, and a dedicated ~/git/ext for repos I do not own, but have locally cloned for various reasons.

Sounds like dogs barking at/with each other in the night back when I was growing up. You’d hear the occasional how-how-hoooooww from one of them, and others would join in. Wolf’ish in some ways. The city I grew up in was much less crowded back then.

Now: I guess self driving cars fill in the void left by dogs not barking at each other anymore.

🐺 — > 🚗

Linux Mint Debian Edition would be a pretty solid, pre-customized distribution.

I’ve had great experiences with Linux on Lenovo over the years: would be my first recommendation.

I currently use a Dell Inspiron, while it’s works great, I had to do some extra work occasionally. I love that I can get fingerprint login with it on Linux though.