Most of the “looks” come from the compositor (picom) and the bar.

I call my desktop loseldoom but my servers are fugit and opti :P

“mLauncher” from Fdroid, it is a fork of OlauncherCF

I’m like you pretty new to all of this, but one thing I now is that you shouldn’t use steamunlocked. (It is discouraged on the megathread)

When I had reddit (deleted a few years ago), I posted a screenshot of my android launcher, and someone pointed out that I was using google apps, and said “protect your privacy”, he gave me some resources and that’s where it all clicked for me. What a nice guy.

I read the full blog post from the linked blog of a sysadmin there, and it was worth the read, what a ride.

It’s a piped frontend, so only piped accounts. (Piped is a frontend for YouTube)

Bonus: Instance and community

Decentralization is king here

Linux mint is in my opinion the best distro for a new user, but you may personally not be fond of the UI.

I don’t know how to write a guide for you, but if you have more specific questions feel free to ask them, best of luck!

Olauncher, Foss and actually minimal

I deleted reddit years ago and now joined lemmy

A shower thought is not simply “a thought you have in the shower”, it is actually written in the sidebar:

Miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar.

That’s why folks will reply with “not a shower thought”, and I agree with them.

I also have a 240hz but it works fine? I’ve never heard of this, although I still hate the nvidia drivers for many things

Opera is just chromium with extra spyware and shit. Firefox is mentioned a lot because it is foss, and my favorite browser for that matter.

You’re objectively wrong. You can have a fully free and open source android rom without any spyware (not even from google) and be free, and I also use Piped for watching youtube because I don’t have a google account. Check out privacy communities on lemmy.

Edit: And about getting rid of all tech, of course you can’t be 100% independent and have 100% privacy, but you can mitigate most of it if you know what you’re doing.

You pay and you’re still the product, they continue with all the tracking they do.

Home Manager on a NixOS flake, it’s a rabbit hole but I’ve been loving it since last week!

I would love it on Piped, they already have sponsorblock

Isn’t qbit’s i2p support still only available on beta?