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

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)

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!

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

That’s how the internet works, a ping is not an issue for my privacy and my threat model

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!

Just heard of it and I will definitely use it. Makes sense they have gone open source, you would need to trust giving out a lot of private data if it wasn’t, it’s an app meant to do everything.

I would love it on Piped, they already have sponsorblock

Ah I see, this is an old screenshot. Understandable have a great day

I love that Linux allows us to do this, but why

my eyes

Thank you so much for your example, I’m new to NixOS coming from arch and these are all very helpful.