neilsimp1

The entire software stack is non-free and closed-source. This means you'd be taking Apple at their word on "privacy". Do you trust Apple? I wouldn't, given their track record.

From a Hardware side, I have nothing to say about this right now. But from a Software side, my Librem 5 matches these points exactly:

- No more bloatware

- just the features you want and the power you need

- choosing your preferred operating system

Obviously the battery and camera quality do not match what you are describing, but a Free operating system enables you to install/remove whatever the heck you might want.

Sorry, what?

FWIW, Neovim can be configured to the point where mouse+keyboard input behave exactly like a GUI text editor would.

I'm struggling to find it now but I've seen a distro shared here that aims for a more Notepad-like experience within nvim.

All the time. I think it's a great way to "learn" the environment you're coding in sometimes.

When I was first learning PHP I spent a year or two without a debugger. The first time I tried one I learned about a whole bunch of global variables I had no idea about.

I recently set up nvim-dap and have wonderful debugging experience while still in the "purity of not using IDEs or debuggers" realm.

Something must be wrong with yours.

BT audio with my headphones and car works fine.

Browsing is fine in FF unless the website is very JS intensive.

Maps works with Puremaps.

The terminal is fine? Unless there is something specific you want out of it. I tried getting kitty to run but it doesn't without opengl.

Heat used to be a bit much but it doesn't get more than a little warm now and hasn't been hot since I first got it almost a year ago.

Seconding this, my L5 has been a daily driver for almost a year and while their are hiccups it's more than usable day to day. I spend a lot of time on the phone for work.

What problem is this solving?

I cannot agree with your point more.

I pirate a decent amount of media. If piracy was not an option, I would simply live without the TV/Movies I download.

I have never used Uber/Lyft, so I cannot say.

There is one Android app I am using through Waydroid. It's a 2FA app I need to log in to work.

Uber/Lyft may also work through Waydroid, but I have no idea.

FWIW, I have been daily driving a Librem 5 for about 5 months now. It is NOT slow.

Some JS heavy pages take a long time to load (FF is mostly fine, GNOME Web is not) in the browser. Other apps work totally fine speed-wise.

There's a lot of opinions in this thread but not a lot of people with firsthand experience.

And how can you verify that those permissions are behaving the way that you asked them to?

Google themselves have publicly stated that turning off GPS in your settings menu doesn't actually turn it off physically. So how do we know that apps still aren't accessing GPS data?

Well this is without a doubt a good move, I still take the cynical stance that using any sort of Google software and hoping for privacy is pointless.

Is there a desktop client for Bitwarden that isn't Electron-based yet?

I tried this years ago and didn't like it. Not only because Electron, but I thought it was missing a lot of basic features (folders/organizing passwords was sorely lacking).

I'm not looking to try it again, to be clear, just curious. KeepassXC won my heart.

What could possibly be the arguments against this sort of thing? Public money => Public code seems obvious to me.

About 3/4 of my day is meetings, so I have about 1-2 hours per day to actually get work done. Generally this means we all work through our meetings and both the work and our attention to the meetings suffers.

A good day is when there is a 2-3 hour uninterrupted slot and I can get about that much deep work done. But that only happens a few days of the month.

I wish HN had more content like this. Thanks for the write-up!

YouTube ReVanced is an option, but that is also having some issues working lately: https://old.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/10h9p39/youtub...

Mint or Elementary make sense.

Another idea - if there aren't any real requirements from the system other than allowing your kid to poke around - try something like Haiku. It's not Linux but it's interesting and different and is still Unix-like.

I have the opposite issue - a LOT of spam makes it's way into my Inbox.

What you are describing, almost to a T, is Purism's Librem 5 - https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/.

Also I would look in to Pine64's PinePhone (Pro), or even Fairphone.

My `cfg` script, which is bash script that wraps around GNU Stow and lets me

`cfg pull` - pull latest git repo and apply via `stow`

`cfg push` - push local config changes to git server

`cfg apply` - apply local changes with `stow`

There are a few other commands too but I don't use them often. This simple script + repo lets me manage my dotfiles across ~7 machines

Same. FF - nothing happens. Chromium - broken image icon. If this gets fixed I would use the heck outta this app.

Isn't it a lot closer to Twitter?

KDE Plasma? Pretty sure you can change this setting in Windows, even.

I just tried on Plasma 5.24.2 and yes, it seems this is a feature. I'm happy this exists, I never knew about it.

Not OP, but we often include these two in our interviews:

1. Write code that will find the second largest item in an array on ints.

2. Write SQL that selects the second highest number from a DB table.

I'm floored how few candidates can do these. Many end up giving up or fiddling for 10 minutes before giving something like `SELECT table WHERE 2`.

I used to have this problem, I ended up stopping using MusicBee. I found Sayonara to be a near 100% replacement. https://sayonara-player.com/

old.reddit.com is showing "Blocked" for me, FF 95.0.2.

Edit: Updated to 96.0, and Reddit is back again.

At least it's still an option to install it though. Even on mobile.