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Cake day: March 5th, 2025

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  • Have Android phone

    Don’t bother signing into your Google account

    Download Canta, Shizuku and f-droid apk and install

    Use canta to uninstall every Google app that isn’t strictly required

    Chrome, Gmail, Drive

    Weather, Launcher, News

    Clock, Keyboard, even the damn Calculator

    Everything. Canta actually tells you what is and isn’t safe

    Replace everything with open source alternatives as you go (don’t forget about a keyboard alternative)

    Get APKUpdater to install and update apps that aren’t on f-droid from various sources you can choose

    Have hastily degoogled Android phone




  • What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.