If you get Organic Maps you can use GPS navigation. It works entirely offline so you can turn your phones cellular off and just use GPS which is passive and doesn’t send out signals. Best practice would be Graphene OS as the base and not having google services installed at all too.
This is how I listen to music too. What I did is I made a bunch of massive playlists inside the services of 80s, 90s, 70s, etc music seperated by decade. Like you’d have on a radio station. Then I plugged them into Parabolic and ripped mp3s of them from youtube. Shoved them in a folder and just listen to those on shuffle. As for supporting artists, half the people I listen to are dead first of all, and for the ones who aren’t I do also have a physical media collection. A single purchase of a cd or vinyl gives them more money than 1000 streams would.
For anyone considering switching to using mp3s on android I’ve found the Phocid music player best. Plus the app icon is a little weasel which is a plus. You can typically store 150 or so songs per gb depending on the length and quality. I just use syncthing to keep my phone and laptop music library synced up.
I don’t like smart anything. I’ve realized the less connected I am and the less I use ‘smart’ technology the happier I am. Phones are for phone calls. Glasses are for correcting vision or blocking the sun. Let’s keep it that way. If it isn’t my laptop I don’t want it to connect to the internet.
I’m actually a big fan of the Gnome workflow on laptops. When using a mouse i HATE Gnome but when using a trackpad? It has no peers. It’s entirely designed around gestures. three fingers up to switch apps, side to side to switch desktops, up a 2nd time to get the apps page, etc. I do wish it was more customizable like KDE but it’s my go to on a laptop simply because I can’t stand using a trackpad with anything else.
You are right to push back on that guys comment, but I want to offer some more insight on this for you.
Https doesn’t necessarily encrypt your entire connection. While the traffic to that site is encrypted not everything is. I really wish more people were aware of DNScrypt. Which is a method for encrypting your DNS connection.
These things all have their uses.
HTTPS: Encrypts traffic to and from a given websites servers.
DNScrypt: Encrypts DNS queries between your device and the recursive resolver, so your ISP can no longer see those DNS lookups. However, the ISP can still see the IP addresses you connect to.
VPN: Routes your traffic through ANOTHER server adding a layer between your IP and the destination.
The guy you replied to said VPNs encrypt your internet connection. Some VPNs do use end to end encryption, but that’s not like a thing VPNs invented. Not sure why people think it is. VPNs can be unencrypted too. The main use case of a VPN is to act like you’re on another network. This is useful for torrenting to hide your IP, or for pretending to be in a different location. Also VPNs that are encrypted (which most are these days) only encrypt the connection from your computer to the actual VPN server. So if you aren’t using HTTPS then anything after the VPN server is unencrypted.
If the ONLY use case you have is encryption HTTPS + DNScrypt is all you need.
One note though is VPNs can actually protect against man in the middle attacks on public wifi. Where someone tricks you into connecting to their fake wifi pineapple and then shows you common sites as if they’re real, but typically this is not a threat on home wifi or a cellular network. Not a reasonable one anyway. At that point your dealing with state level actors and a VPN aint gonna do shit anyway.
DNScrypt can be subbed for DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS. Some browsers even have a DNS over HTTPS option in their settings. This is easier than setting DNScrypt up yourself, but you are also kind of relying on the browser to do a good job in this case. Plus any lookups outside the browser like for other apps or system updates are then not encrypted and would go to whatever the DNS is for your full system.
Even without DNScrypt or one of the alternatives one of the best things you can do is to simply manually choose a different DNS provider. Most ISPs will send you to their DNS provider and can see everything. You can manually select a different one. There are lots of options, Mullvad, Quad9, Cloudflare, Adguard Public DNS, etc. Some will even block ads for you. It’s super easy to do you just go into network settings and put in the IP to your chosen provider. You can look them up online to find a good one.
I would honestly just create a tiny dual boot of another linux distro with LUKS KVM encryption on the entire thing. It has its own sudo, and is locked behind your encryption password. You just boot into a small 30GB or so private session that only you have access to while leaving the main distro untouched.
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Buckshot Roulette is a game where you play a game of russian roulette with a shotgun against a creepy dealer and have various items with abilities to help you win. It’s small but fun. Can do multiplayer.
Half Sword is a very interesting melee combat game. It’s hard to describe but its mainly about their unique way of controlling a melee character and fighting in battles in a medieval themed arena. It’s a bit wonky, but very fun.
The Walking Trade is a zombie apocalypse store simulator. You have to run a store and stop zombies from eating your customers.
Retro Rewind is a game where you run a VHS store in the 90s. You gather various VHS tapes, hire employees, and upgrade your shop.
They Are Billions is a game where you try to build up a colony in a world overrun by thousands and thousands of zombies. You’ll be attacked in waves and the game manages to run very well even while thousands of individual units are on screen. It’s quite difficult.
Edit: Actually want to add one I havent played yet. Thick as Thieves seems like it has a lot of potential.