It's just getting used to it. You can add the Collins (or any other dictionary search to Firefox) and it's as easy as selecting the correct search engine and writing the word in the search box.

there was an app for Wiktionary on fdroid. But I don't like Wiktionary's definitions as much as Collins'.

immutable OSs are killing the desktop OS, keeping the user restricted.

yeah, phone number and centralization makes it no good. XMPP it is.

I just use the Collins dictionary which is the best one IMO through Tor. There's no private (good) dictionary.

Edit: Also, installing an app for everything is not great for privacy either. They have a greater access to your device than a web. And for something I can perform in a web search, that's my preferred method.

you got the reparability totally wrong. if the motherboard fries, you have to replace basically the whole device. In a desktop you just replace the motherboard and keep the CPU, GPU and RAM.

you can obviously plug an external HDD, but can you upgrade RAM? can you upgrade to a better CPU or replace your current CPU without replacing half of the phone components? No, you can't.

and yes, Android uses the Linux kernel. But very few manufacturers release the kernel's code. No upstream kernel support makes it quite hard to keep updating after the manufacturer stops, even for custom ROMs that have to keep using the kernel as a blob, which eventually becomes inviable.

And if you're already limiting yourself to devices supported by LineageOS, you're discarding 90% of all phones, which let's be honest, if the primary reason to use a flawed OS to self-host was to recycle hardware, you're discarding most phones anyway so not a great reason.

they're downvoting you because your logic was "apple does hardware so they must know better" and trusting a big corp to do your encryption better is kind of innocent.

anyway, seeing that they do hardware encryption, they are right to downvote you. I'm not with Microsoft either, bitlocker is probably backdoored, but hey, at least you're not trusting your hardware manufacturer to actually maintain an up-to-date secure firmware.

if it's made for power users why is it proprietary software? Vivaldi is yet another chromium browser with a fancy skin.

what are you talking about? XMPP doesn't have such a thing as default settings. It varies from client to client. There are clients which have E2EE enabled by default, clients which make it available, others that support it with a plugin and there are others that do not support E2EE.

That's no excuse to avoid XMPP. XMPP is an open standard, the key is choosing a good implementation.

I wish I was in the EU to sign this.

I hope they listen to you this time, even if politicians hardly ever listen to the people.

if you create a MUC in XMPP, I'm in

avoid matrix https://gitlab.com/libremonde-org/papers/research/privacy-matrix.org/-/tree/master/part1

XMPP it is.

Just an innocent movie reference