It's like standing in the middle of a bridge, the Levenshtein distance is the same no matter which way you look

Google [...] a privacy disaster

I tried dual-booting Manjaro from my Ubuntu install, since VMs were slow on my machine at the time and I wanted to give Manjaro a try.

Manjaro wouldn't boot (X11 sessions crashes on boot), and then when I returned to Ubuntu, I got dropped straight to the GRUB rescue shell because I had shrunk the partition from the Manjaro installer, and it had fucked up the Ubuntu install :/ so instead of two OSes I had none

Sable always had a tendency to make the Deck heat up like crazy and burn through battery in no time, but otherwise it's a great game to play in bed 😁

I wanted to give Lineage a try, but I went traveling last July and installing a new ROM abroad really didn't sound like a good idea, despite the EOL on my current ROM 😅

It's really a shame that the /e/ ROMs don't at least integrate the system patches from upstream, since they are indeed based on Lineage (just checked now), and Lineage still supports the Pixel 3a

I guess it might have to do with upkeeping their fork of the Lineage software, or their own launcher being incompatible with modern versions of Lineage

Had been on Calyx for a while, must say /e/ was definitely a better experience, haven't tried anything else besides that

I think /e/ is forked from either Graphene or Lineage (not sure which one) but comes with a full FOSS suite of replacement apps that integrate with the Murena online services (can also use a regular Nextcloud instance)

It'a neat and tightly integrated out-of-the-box, worked really well on the 3a, but most apps sorta fell behind in terms of features in the long run compared to traditional FOSS apps, might also be due to lack of updates since the device is considered EOL

I'm looking into getting a Fairphone with iodéOS next, since my 3a doesn't recieve updates anymore and the phone's been agonizing from all the traveling haha

I used YunoHost to set it up.

My first idea was to have the instance locked behind the YunoHost auth, since Pixelfed supports LDAP.

But I could not manage to make the LDAP work, so I went instead with a public instance that has ActivityPub disabled and all posts set to "Followers Only".

People could also set each of their accounts to "Private", but the follow requests were not working when I first set up the instance.