lurkerlady
Mullvad browser 💅
I daily drive it. Run it close to stock as possible, save passwords with keepassxc. Use protonvpn or mullvadvpn with it. Can easily circumvent bans on Reddit and so on. Can't be fingerprinted. It's in the same class as Tor browser
For the record you don't need a second phone to do that with GrapheneOs, each profile is basically a new phone. You can even get burner esims for it.
Install GrapheneOs on it to remove Google garbage. Plus your phone now can't be cracked by feds.
The Pixel series with GrapheneOs is the only phone that cannot be cracked by Cellebrite which is what federal governments around the world use to break into your phone. All other suggestions are trash if you do anything that could be construed as illegal (if shit hits the fan the government will use any excuse to target you as a leftist). In fact, an empty profile on GrapheneOs on wifi is probably the most secure and user oriented way to use the internet period. Other options like Qubes require a lot of technical knowledge, GrapheneOs is very user friendly and hard to fuck up, especially if you stick to open source software.
With the proper settings, FOSS apps, and avoiding google services you can double your battery life too. My pixel 9 lasts 5 days on a single charge. About half of any phones battery is used by Google services.
My suggestions for using this phone: compartment non foss apps into a separate google services profile that closes on switch. Then install things like Tor Browser, foss messengers like element and molly, and orbot or mullvad vpn, to a secure profile with nothing else on it. Restrict mobile access on that secure profile and don't receive sms on it. Then have a normal foss profile that you use daily. This is the most secure way to operate.
Bazzite is my jam lately. I'm a perpetual distrohopper and g@mer and bazzite may have solved it for me. It just works. Nobara and mint have broken on upgrades for me in the past and my configs would break which would require manual intervention to fix, bazzite seems to have solved this and their system is very reproducible and stable. My configs get reapplied after every update.
Still waiting to see if anything will ever break. I legit haven't had to research a single thing since downloading it and learning how the containers for flatpak, brew, and distrobox worked.
Linux has recently reached an extreme degree of parity with windows and often runs windows apps and games better than windows does even though it's run through a compatibility layer.
It's also just nice to look at the logs and see no telemetry, ad spam, and junk apps. Nope it's just the 8 things I use. Bazzite seems to have best best implementation of a gaming kernel on Linux, my performance is often better than windows and 15-20% faster than other Linux distros. Even Nvidia has a stable open source driver these days, it's wild how far Linux has come.
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