Nah, your ISP doesn’t give you enough bandwidth to host your own mini YouTube. You vastly underestimate the bandwidth required to run the service. It’s massive, which is why PeerTube is having a hard time gaining traction.

Serious question: how can YouTube pay the bills with zero ads? I’m not talking about making a profit, just breaking even.

Except content creators want to create content, not maintain an instance.

Switching to more private and less data hungry services is a tough process. How private do you want to be? If you take it too far, you won’t have a cell phone or a bank account.

Carefully consider the changes you are willing make right now. Start small, progress slowly. Don’t get discouraged and remember that total privacy doesn’t exist.

Start by swapping search engine, don’t use Google or Bing. That’s an easy goal that already makes a big difference. Use something like Duck duck go, Startpage or something like that.

Eventually move away from gmail. Get your own domain, create your own email address. Slowly migrate your important accounts to the new email. This can take time but it’s not hard and you just removed the 2 largest sources of data from Google.

Stop using Chrome, try Firefox. Personally recommend LibreWolf, a Firefox fork. At the very least move to Brave browser (but make sure you disable the crypto crap). Most extensions exist in both browsers this should easy.

Eventually consider moving to Linux but don’t rush it. Study what apps you need, what alternatives are there in Linux. Expect a way worse user experience but a way way better ownership. Try in a VM or live environment before you even consider installing it for real.

Even if the AI was at the point if outputing exactly what you want correcly, decision makers would still need to be able to specify exactly what they want and need. “I want a website that pops” isn’t going to cut it.

Android ROMs community took Google’s work? Are you forgetting which community developed Kernel does Android use? Let’s not think about the custom ROMs community as free loaders, please. They provide a free and amazing service.

Not the person you asked to but my gaming experience has been stellar. If you use Steam you don’t have to do anything, it all works out of the box. If you don’t play those multiplayer games with kernel level anti cheats you’ll be fine.

I was expecting a bad time and was extremely impressed. Gaming in Linux is amazing.

I don’t know too much about IoT but I wouldn’t say linux runs the world in any of the other markets you mentioned.

I would say while technically Android uses a modified linux kernel, you can’t put it under the same umbrella.

Either way I don’t want to get too much into these technicalities. I was simply trying to say that Linux is king on servers, not really on the market where all this crazyness happened.

Just to clarify: the world runs in linux servers. The market share for the non-server market is abysmal.

Firefox sync is disabled by default but you can enable it in the settings.

You can enable Firefox sync in Librewolf, it works fine.

Isn’t proton photos built into their Proton Drive already? It’s implementation is… barebones… On Android but it works.

I mean… If Proton had no way of knowing your recovery email, it would be pretty pointless to set one up. If they do have a way of knowing it, they are bound by swiss law to give it up. No company is above the law, they have always been very transparent on that matter.

Here in Portugal the lowest is 8gb. The 500 euro models have 16gb already.

Just use proton VPN, the free tier should be enough.

It still works and is my daily driver! On both mobile and desktop!

I think it’s extremely important to support Google alternatives and I will continue to do so. Firefox still has pain points and recognizing them is also important.

Firefox extensions can’t mess with Firefox tabs. Sure you have extensions such as tree style tabs but they don’t really change the tab bar, they add side-panel with your tabs in a tree style format. This means you end up with a tab bar and a tab panel, which is a bit clunky. There are ways to hide the tab bar by messing with the userChrome file but that’s not user friendly at all.

I don’t have any particular setup that is too outrageous or different from anyone else. I just use Firefox, whatever is the most recent version in the arch repository. Ocasionally I open the browser and I don’t have any pinned tabs, I don’t know why. It’s not a frequent event or something tied to anything I can think off, it just appears to be random.

The sync problem has been reported here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1879022

• Tab Grouping would be my first pick.

• When I first started using Firefox on Linux, dragging tabs was really reallyyyyyy bad but they have heavily improved it. UI just feels more polished on chrome

• Sync doesn’t work for me, though it seems to work for everyone else. It doesn’t give me any error or a hint to what the problem might me, which is just bad UX.

• Chromecasting an entire tab doesn’t work, though I guess can’t we can’t blame Firefox for that, can we?

• My unit tests take at the very least twice as long to run on Firefox

• Pinned tabs occasionally just disappear and I have to create everything again. Extensions exist to prevent this but don’t work with multi containers, which is honestly Firefox best feature.

I’ve done that several times.

I’ve been moving away from Google in the last year and moving to Firefox was one of my first moves. It’s honestly a downgrade in usability but I guess that applies to all alternative products.

I just wish I could sync my bookmarks between desktop and mobile. Seems like no one has this problem but firefox sync just does not work for me. It just says last update was never. Let me know if you know how to fix it.