Try KDE Plasma, you can strip out a ton of it, for example XOrg entirely, baloo, animations, etc.

I think XFCE has way more themes etc. Both are extremely themable though.

Swap is only needed for emergencies, if you have a bad oom, and if you have low RAM.

If you have like 1-4GB of RAM, ZRAM may be better than swap.

Aged like milk

Most likely use of insanely bloated libraries.

My nearly-bank (until I found out they dont work without Google and their cards are not unlockable for a human being) GLS has an old app, based on some generic banking app banks used in the past “GLS mBank” which is ⅒ of the size of the new, bloated “GLS Banking”.

And they rely on big brother Volksbank, and they depend on another provider “Atruvia” for “security magic sauce” whose proprietary 2FA garbage app “Securego Plus” blocks me when using a VPN, of course without a message.

I hate banks so much.

To my knowledge the presets are stored in the headphones and you just switch between them. At least with my headphones.

No, I understand your points. I may think you need to specify what you mean by “customizable”. A lot of stuff users normally do, like theming, installing random stuff etc, works. You can layer, build your own image etc.

But this is not the point as OP was frustrated about having an OS that even though promising to be reliable still breaks.

And whining about “oh I cant tweak it” is just not at the correct place there.

But of course my answers were kinda harsh, sorry for that. But these issues are really nonissues if your priority is having a working system.

I mean, Github is literally the source of 2 operating systems I run. And most of my apps.

Yeah that factor may not be wanted. But it is a security factor, because only you have it.

You could hash it securely so the computer gods dont know your fingerprint. And you could only use it in addition to another factor.

Ah okay but is that useful in many cases? Only when you are home.

Really?? This is crazy.

Afaik headscale is the selfhosted server. You can likely login however you want.

Yeah as they have the same app ID I need to clone, change the app ID and build with my own Key. That is fine and I may do that for a bunch of repos.

Already found them but that is not a nice way.

I am getting AndroidStudio Flatpak currently and will just build the APK myself. Lets see how hard that is.

Static IPs are not a thing in most countries. You need an overlay network or dynamic DNS like NoIP.

Headscale is a downstream of tailscale, meaning it has a fraction of the features and is maintained by Tailscale employees.

But great for less trust.

To get more versed infos, visit discussion.fedoraproject.org

We have tags there, many knowledgeable people, and can help better.

Run it through the terminal.

Just yesterday I noticed how insane proprietary apps on Android became.

• nearly all of these work 90% as webapps through the browser
• the Webapps have some arbitrary limits though, like being partly PC-style only, or having “install the app” buttons everywhere, not allowing to view Videos, etc.
• they have like 10 buttons and settings, dont do client side encryption and generally just do stuff the Webview can do
• they are f**ing 400MB+ big???

Examples:

• Sennheiser Soundcontrol
• TikTok
• Instagram
• X
• …

All proprietary bloated garbage. Updates take literally minutes on them. It is insane, as they should be like 20MB max, as everything is just Webview.

These are as big as Electron apps.

Firefox is ≈ 300MB big. AN ENTIRE BROWSER

You could archive chats encrypted too.

Something you know, something you have, something you are.

3FA:

• Pin
• Security Key/TPM/Secure element
• fingerprint / iris scan

You could also start with just one of these