the debloater is a good resource for what system apps do, and whether or not they are actually needed.

I recommend the universal android debloater: https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

It has good recommendations.

ummm no. I don’t want Meta to access my chats.

This might be true, but at the end of the day I don’t care. I just want things to work out of the box.

I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)

on linux it is easy to record the audio that is sent to the sound device. lots of programs do it.

onthespot doesn’t look too bad if you want to download from spotify directly.

I just download from youtube though. It’s very easy with yt-dlp.

Graphs like this will always be population graphs. Russia is the 9th most populated country with 140 million people.

Elden Ring runs better on proton/wine/dxvk then it does on Windows.

Swearing in source code points to a healthy and organic development.

Wasn’t this always the case? I remember flying into the US during the Biden era as a tourist and had to declare my social media accounts.