Like the other reply said, Lineage doesn’t do a whole lot in terms of degoogling. I quite enjoy DivestOS, it’s a project that takes Lineage as a base and strips out as much Google and proprietary code as possible.
In fact, it’s so Google-free that neither sandboxed Play Services nor MicroG are officially supported, though the latter can still be installed and used just fine, though with a few drawbacks.

Same as Lineage, it runs on more devices, but certain features like bootloader relocking depend on the phone.

Hell, Lutris can even set up the original 1989 Sim City for you. Seeing that game on modern display sizes and resolutions is quite something

One of those times where it sounded perfectly correct in my head, whoops

Others have said all the important things, but I wanted to add that there are things that Android always tunnels through a VPN, like internet connectivity checks.

So even with Always-ON and Block Connections, this will still ignore a VPN

There exists a frontend called Proxitok, but I can’t comment on how well it works or what it can do. The LibRedirect addon for Firefox can redirect you to the instance of your choosing.

Great addon in general, do check it out if you don’t know it already.

Firefox (at least on Android), actually violates the GDPR for connecting to Adjust without user consent.

So no need to look further for any privacy shenanigans, this is unbelievably disappointing, coming from Mozilla.

Most of them, that’s fair. But I do see a distinct lack of email apps supporting it.

Not common enough, when you look at the small list of apps that support it

That breaks anonymity, not privacy

I’m at a point where I wish Firefox had the option to automatically load sites in reader mode, when available

Noyb is publishing their articles in both German and English. Good source for news on the latest legal fuckeries of Big Tech and the like

Oh, we’ve been through this though. Which other platform will ever have the cash to be a real contender here?

Kinda sounds like it doesn’t like whatever your phine is doing to optimize background battery usage

It’s going to be part of the 3.0 release, after what feels like an eternity. The 2.99 dev release has it already, I might try that

Is Vanguard actually that much more effective than say, the EAC that we have on Linux?

Linux only grants access inside user space, so yeah. Says a lot about any game that refuses to adapt to that

It’s nice that the option exists, I didn’t know that. But I have to say, I’m still not a fan of the overall concept of bridges

They make things so much easier, having to make copies of every layer every time just to keep the original in case you need to re-do something half an hour later is super annoying.

Especially if you do multiple different things with a layer. Do you really have the patience to make backuo copies of a layer after every little edit you apply to it?

And then let’s say step 2 of 5 didn’t turn out like you want. Backup copies or not, you still have to re-do everything from 2 to 5 because of GIMPs destructive nature as of right now

You know why the person themselves is the important part of this equation?

Because they know what tools to use for which purpose.
For example, GIMP is only now getting non-destructive editing through adjustment layers, which is such an indispensable feature for important projects

The whole point of the Beeper App is to let them handle everything, though.

And even if you self-host, you’re still breaking encryption and have to make sure everything is properly secured.