I personally prefer the Mullvad client since, at least on MacOS, it allows you to exclude specific apps from the VPN, while the ProtonVPN client does not! I still use ProtonVPN instead though, since it’s also significantly cheaper for me.

That’s not going to happen

When corporations commit crimes it’s called business

San Francisco from Watch Dogs 2 was great

Sure

FUTO, Rossman and his community seem rather right wing, so I don’t think they’d support Lemmy as it is very left leaning. I might be wrong tho

It’s only worth it if you want to support Mozilla imo. If you don’t care about Mozilla, get Mullvad instead

Revolut is a data mining company that demands you use Google’s services or an iPhone to use.

It’s sad that this gets downvoted to hell. As a MacOS user who appreciates beautiful UI, this is a major pain point for me on Linux. And yes, Windows is the absolute worst at this.

Not relevant to this thread. However, I didn’t know what a cyberdeck was and there are indeed some very cool-looking ones. :)

Fight Graphite with Graphene!

They don’t advertise it as a glorified autocomplete, but as an all-knowing God. Therefore it is still OpenAI’s fault.

I was in a very similar situation when shopping for my current laptop so here are my thoughts: I set out looking for a lightweight and relatively powerful 13" Linux laptop and ended up with an M4 MacBook Air. Despite what a lot of people wanna say, the MacBook Air is one of the best deals you can get for an ultrabook, especially on these newer generations, as others I’ve looked at struggle to compete in performance per watt while at the same price point and with lower build quality. Seems to me that with the requirements you’ve listed, you will have to compromise on a few things if you want the advantages of running Linux.

The FW13, best fit I can think of, is a wonderful machine, you will probably have a good time with it, but it certainly does not have as good of a build quality, battery life nor UX refinement as a MacBook. The difference isn’t massive but it is there. These are common compromises when you buy into more ethical tech.

You won’t even have to think anymore, let AI think for you!, you’ll be thoughtless and content

WhatsApp with extra steps

I like Grayjay for YouTube and also other video platforms

Honestly, not a bad idea. If Google breaks custom ROMs I might just switch to Huawei 🤷

I use Bottles daily and just made a donation two days ago :)

If you can’t be financially viable without scamming people maybe fuck off??

Hell yeah!