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I never liked Brave tbh, something about it felt sketchy with all the crypto stuff

A month ago, a windows update made my laptop crawl to a stop. It needed 2-3 hours to respond after a restart/shutdown. It would crash saying the search wasn’t initialised, I couldn’t type into the search. Fucking nightmare

I am using this, best decision I’ve ever taken. Using my device feels new again. There is still the issue with play integrity. Apart from that everything’s good so far.

I flashed Lineage OS and it is what I imagine Android should be. Too bad custom ROM scene is slowly dying because of Google.

The lag is why I haven’t switched to it. I’m used to KISS Launcher “Blazingly fast launcher focused on search” and it is 100% true to it’s tagline.

It does have local backup but I couldn’t find how to restore from local backup.

Local chat backups on signal are soo convenient and to the point.

I recently flashed Lineage OS on my phone. Some banking apps are not working. Even though the experience has been top notch for me I sometimes regret it.

Yeah, I’ve been waiting since a week to unlock my bootloader. I still have to wait 4 more days to be able to unlock. Once it’s done I’m going to Lineage OS.

Xiaomi phones have a good hardware to price ratio. I’ve got a headphone jack, dual SIM, and a dedicated memory card slot.

Just Player - Play Store Github

I’ve always loved Vanilla Music Player. It also has some plugins which extends some functionality.

It is foss, lightweight and has a great black theme

I don’t think it does, it’s just a quick toggle to disable everything at once. If a category is disabled it gets prioritised.

Also KeePass, I’ve switched from bitwarden to KeePassDX on mobile and set up syncing to nextcloud and google drive. Aegis for time based OTP’s.

I moved to Firefox on desktop years ago.

On mobile I use Firefox as default, Cromite if something does not work on Firefox, Kiwi Browser as backup.

Firefox and Kiwi Browser on mobile is a bit sluggish and slow on my phone.

My phone (redmi note 10) has a memory card slot and dual sim slots. I recently bought a 128Gb memory card for around 10$. I’ll always go for a phone with a microSD slot.