N.E.P.T.R

I would use something like Transcribro for voice input. It works really well, doesn’t require internet, is actually Open Source (unlike futo, also futo cofounder is a cryptofascist), and is on Accrescent (preferred) or GitHub releases.

Librewolf offers a setting to re-enable FF Sync. There are similar toggles for other things.

You say “all the privacy settings on”, but what does that mean. I assume FFP but probably not RFP. I also assume it keeps JS JIT enabled which is a massive attack surface. I am not going to get into more detail but if people are looking for a more security/privacy focused Firefox fork, use Librewolf. If all you are looking for is Firefox with the privacy settings on, just use Firefox. Even with Librewolf, you can (mostly) replicate the experience by using Phoenix or Arkenfox with vanilla Firefox. I recommend everyone reconsider using a fork that is amounts to a few preinstalled extensions and just some (good) default settings. Using a fork just introduces a new party into the mix, which at best slows down how fast you get (security) updates from upstream, and at worst leads to supply chain attacks.

That being said, I keep seeing people talk about how much they like Waterfox. I tried it and figured it wasn’t for me. That isn’t me saying that it isn’t the right choice for others. I would love to better understand what people enjoy about Waterfox over/instead of Firefox/Librewolf/Zen/etc., pros/cons and the like.

I don’t like Brave or the amount of bloat. Sadly what is missing from basically all Chromium forks is even basic browser anti-fingerprinting. The only other real example I can think of is Cromite, which is what i recommend people use instead of Brave.

Okular by KDE

Sound like exactly what I have been wanting, though i will never use this fork for something so small and without a Flatpak.

Valhiem

A browser is a while different beast. Firefox has half as many lines of code as the Linux kernel, just for comparison. Security must be topnotch since the that model is to treat the website as if it is already malicious. Even with all of Firefox’s developers, it lags behind Chromium in sandboxing/isolation and exploit mitigations.

• Most “Open source” LLMs are really just open weights, which is useless without the training data. This dilutes the definition of OSS. There is no way to train the model as a normal person (aka not Google or Meta, etc)
• LLM producers don’t credit the OSS they trained on, no attribution. Most models violate the licenses of all their training data (eg. GPL).
• LLM scraper bots put high stress on server infrastructure, creating a DDOS attack.

Combine this with Librera Reader and you can listen to eBooks easily.

If I had to guess, they probably don’t use the APIs, inside using scrapping of some sort.

Maybe a setup FIDO2 LUKS unlocking, but that requires a security key: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/security-keys/

You could setup LUKS TPM unlocking.

Definitely agree. If they could somehow make it a Flatpak with minimal permissions I would def check it out. Otherwise, I don’t use any unsandboxed software to avoid apps having arbitrary permissions.

I dont know

What you want is Xournal++

It allows creating a layer which can be saved as a separate file and edited later, then if you want a modified PDF with the overlaid changes just “export as PDF”

Link: https://xournalpp.github.io/

I liked qdirstat

If all you need is a simple note taking app, I recommend Notesnook. It is free and open source and offers E2EE cloud syncing. That is what I used as a Google keep alternative. Silverbullet is good, but may be too feature-full for something as simple as a Keep replacement.

Varia is a download manager written using GTK4. Simple, easy, and best of all speeds up downloads significantly on most sites. There also is a extension for Chromium and Firefox, but I haven’t tried them.

The link to the Joplin’s website is https://joplinapp.org/