You can use the Polycentric protocol on Grayjay, though I doubt any creators actually read it.

The next best is probably to pick a phone from DivestOS’s list of supported devices, and preferably ones with a re-lockable bootloader

GL.iNet has a mesh router based on OpenWRT and supports WireGuard.

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-b1300/

I have the Flint 2 and like it quite a lot but don’t have experience with this other router.

Watch videos from Naomi Brockwell. She covers many privacy topics and makes it easy to understand

I personally haven’t ever had it that difficult. My laptop has an nvidia card running mint and is dual booting with Windows with no issues. I’ve previously setup an encrypted Ubuntu on an external drive that can be loaded on any computer without issues. I’ve used Bazzite on an all AMD modern gaming powerhouse, and Kinoite on two laptops with integrated graphics with no issues. Also KDE Neon on a crappy old HP Laptop with no issues.

So you may have done something wrong in the process of installation, maybe your USB drive was corrupted, or maybe you tinkered alittle too much while not knowing exactly what you were doing.

Good points

I suggest Fedora Kinoite. An atomic version of Fedora (meaning it’s hard to mess up and easy to revert if you do manage to f things up) and it uses the Plasma desktop. The kernel is quite up-to-date and everything feels modern. I’ve transitioned a few noobs from Windows and they haven’t had any issues besides learning basics that are just different than what they are used to.

Mint with Cinnamon feels outdated and Ubuntu is a thing of the past with questionable tactics and goals.

It always has been ever since they got a DARPA grant back in the day

I know she doesn’t have the “M” chip, so I’d guess it’s an Intel

Oh I didn’t realize it was like that. I’ll have to re-visit my Mom’s Macbook

I use a VPN with NewPipe, no problems. I’m using the NewPipe repo for the app

Great! I’ve got my Dad on it, just need to get my mom off of her iPad now

I’ve been using this for a few months now with Organic Maps and it’s incredibly good. A few versions ago I noticed some issues with certain letter sounds but with frequent updates it now sounds so natural.

I found “vits-piper-en_GB-southern_english_female-medium” to be the most natural sounding voice for English.

If Kodi is used to watch movies and TV shows for free then you’d want to protect your internet traffic from unwanted eyes

Absolutely this. Depending on how you use it though, make sure you have a VPN and private DNS setup on your router

I never had much luck with Lutris either. Try Heroic games launcher. It’s fantastic with Linux and GoG

I hope it will release on GoG at some point

I listen to quite a few different podcasts via AntennaPod and have never listened to an ad that wasn’t from the podcast itself. Maybe it’s due to my DNS settings or luck of the draw?

I recently got a Dell Latitude 14 2-in-1 with the AMD 8840U, Put on the latest Fedora Kinoite and the fingerprint reader works FYI.

Great story. I have found that pretty much everyone I have shown Linux is pleasantly surprised with how nice it is. I think people have an idea of it being a hacker person OS with code running on the screen.