I've seen a lot of discussion about Android and its various downstream distributions. Many folks are also confused with "security" and "privacy" distros!

I wrote this post (and rant) to clarify what these mean - and how we got to this point. It's a worthy discussion, given the relative stability of these distros.

Please let me know if you have any additional suggestions for the article - I can edit it pretty easily!

Everyone wants to be the one eating - no one wants to be the foodless researcher.

Also mortgages to pay, and mouths of feed of this little brats they pop out are all valid reasons....

Maybe it's just me, but I feel that there's almost a counter-Google-fu these days. Finding something that isn't on the front page, or even just trying to use an older search style often leads to Google showing the weirdest results.

I use Searx or DuckDuckGo for these searches. While their results are often worse at the top, they provide a wealth of understanding and documentation that Google seems to just.. skip? To me, finding things is more difficult when there are two opposing sides trying to outsmart one another.

A beefy camera would be very interesting to work with. As of now, our phones do a ton of proprietary processing which makes open source/external solutions... suck. I'd love to have a decent open source camera app with the capacities of something like GCam.

>A beefy camera would be very interesting to work with. As of now, our phones do a ton of proprietary processing which makes open source/external solutions... suck. I'd love to have a decent open source camera app with the capacities of something like GCam.

I'm a big fan of open source, literally have open source projects with many stars on github. However, I'm not one of those 'no proprietary blobs' folks.

Sony has a camera chip that's awesome, available, but comes with a blob? Fine with me.

Me neither, though if there's a decent and open source solution available, you know that's going on my devices ;)

No one should want to test this - it's terrifying for companies and developers alike.

I think it’s better we do know because that should lead to refinements in licences (eg a GPLv4 that explicitly allows humans to write original works conceptually based off content read but not derived from code from; while explicitly disallowing code use for machine learning except where the published work is also licensed GPL).

Is that an X issue or a GTK issue? Haven't heard of this before and it sounds scary

Personally, I think it should assume that you don't want to be bothered and allow the user to change it from there.

I find that some things do require a !g, but it's becoming increasingly rare in my daily life. It's often, as another commenter said, when researching something that uses terms from another, more popular thing that Google really shines. That said, I still use DDG for almost everything. :)

+1, these things (gen1) make my ear ache after only a few minutes and fall out like crazy. Luckily, I just tried a family members' so it's not too big a deal, but had I bought these...

It hardly matters now, but before you do anything with a guest, you can start a private session to make sure their history is ignored. Still a very weird feature to omit; I'd reckon that most people would use history deletion at some point

I use this a lot when playing music for my kid, but unfortunately the feature is clunky: weird path to find it, self-auto-disable much later but with the song still loaded. Hopefully this changes someday.