u/vg_123476

Hello everyone,

Recently i got locked out of my xiaomi 17 phone because my GF changed my password and did a factory without my consent after an argument, and i lost my acess to it due to FRP even tho i didnt have any gmail account on it, they required an account that was deleted long ago and cannot be recovered.

This made realize how ridiculous the situation is right now, how the hardware we buy is not ours, and i dont think this feature is needed since privacy focused ROMs like graphene dont implement it.

And this is how i found about graphene os, i want to start with a cheap pixel just to give it a try and the pixel 8a falls right into my budget, but i heard from people on stock pixel os that the battery life is not good and some other problems, are they still present in graphene os? or at least does the OS optimize battery life better than pixel os .

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this awesome project.

So after years of getting absolutely nowhere with girls i started seeing all these memes about femboys using linux and i was like hold on maybe the problem isnt me maybe im just running windows like a breeder so i did what any reasonable person would do i nuked my drive installed arch and spent the next six hours trying to figure out why i had no internet because apparently installing an operating system doesnt include the very controversial feature of being able to connect to the internet

anyway after i got everything working i expected to immediately become more attractive but instead i just developed this uncontrollable urge to tell everyone i use arch btw like i genuinely cant stop doing it, even when my doctor asked if i had any allergies i said i dont have an allergy but i use arch btw

then i figured i should actually go meet these mythical linux femboys everyone keeps talking about so i joined a few linux discords spent an entire weekend making my hyprland config look cute downloaded catppuccin for literally everything my terminal my browser my gtk theme my discord my spotify my soul i even installed those little anime cat command line programs because i thought maybe thats what theyre into

finally i saw someone with an anime profile picture and cat ears in their profile banner and i was like omg this is literally my chance so i casually mentioned i use arch and got ignored, okay maybe they didnt see it so i mentioned that i compile my own kernel still nothing then i said i use wayland and hyprland and the aur and pipewire and btrfs snapshots and i swear i was one message away from posting my neofetch before they finally replied with "cute"

not cute as in flirting cute as in the way you call a toddler cute after they tell you they know the alphabet because literally everyone in that server was running arch

i realized the only thing arch femboys love more than talking about arch is pretending installing arch isnt impressive anymore, every time i flexed my rice somebody posted theirs and it looked like a nasa control room designed by hello kitty, at some point i genuinely started considering installing nixos just so i could be interesting again

so now here i am no girlfriend no boyfriend no social skills my desktop has a billion shades of pastel pink my terminal meows at me every time i open it and every weekend i sacrifice a perfectly functional arch install to the update gods because having a stable computer would make me a poser

So after years of getting absolutely nowhere with girls i started seeing all these memes about femboys using linux and i was like hold on maybe the problem isnt me maybe im just running windows like a breeder so i did what any reasonable person would do i nuked my drive installed arch and spent the next six hours trying to figure out why i had no internet because apparently installing an operating system doesnt include the very controversial feature of being able to connect to the internet

anyway after i got everything working i expected to immediately become more attractive but instead i just developed this uncontrollable urge to tell everyone i use arch btw like i genuinely cant stop doing it, even when my doctor asked if i had any allergies i said i dont have an allergy but i use arch btw

then i figured i should actually go meet these mythical linux femboys everyone keeps talking about so i joined a few linux discords spent an entire weekend making my hyprland config look cute downloaded catppuccin for literally everything my terminal my browser my gtk theme my discord my spotify my soul i even installed those little anime cat command line programs because i thought maybe thats what theyre into

finally i saw someone with an anime profile picture and cat ears in their profile banner and i was like omg this is literally my chance so i casually mentioned i use arch and got ignored, okay maybe they didnt see it so i mentioned that i compile my own kernel still nothing then i said i use wayland and hyprland and the aur and pipewire and btrfs snapshots and i swear i was one message away from posting my neofetch before they finally replied with "cute"

not cute as in flirting cute as in the way you call a toddler cute after they tell you they know the alphabet because literally everyone in that server was running arch

i realized the only thing arch femboys love more than talking about arch is pretending installing arch isnt impressive anymore, every time i flexed my rice somebody posted theirs and it looked like a nasa control room designed by hello kitty, at some point i genuinely started considering installing nixos just so i could be interesting again

so now here i am no girlfriend no boyfriend no social skills my desktop has 47 shades of pastel pink my terminal meows at me every time i open it and every weekend i ditch away another perfectly functional arch install to the update gods because having a stable computer would make me a poser

anyway i think the experience was worth it atleast i can flex on windows normies that i use arch, but still ill like if someone would help me with tips to find my linux femboy

I have not used edge in months, and today after restarting my pc after an update microsoft decided that i wanna use edge as my default browser instead of firefox with a reminder that they care about my privacy 👀

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Ublock origin is the only privacy extension you will ever need, not just for ad blocking but also invasive scripts.

By default, Easy mode only blocks known bad guys like obvious ads and trackers based on blocklists, in medium mode the rules get much tougher, it automatically blocks all third party scripts and frames, if you visit a website, it loads everything owned by the website. But if that site tries to load code or content from another one, uBlock instantly blocks it by default.

To activate Medium Mode, you first need to turn on the advanced user interface, which gives you access to the global and local controls.

• Click the uBlock Origin icon in your browser toolbar.
• Click the gears icon.
• Under the Settings tab, check the box next to "I am an advanced user".

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After that

• Click the uBlock Origin icon on any webpage to open the main popup.
• Look at the two columns of squares next to the listed web addresses. The very first column on the left represents your Global settings.
• Find the rows labeled 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frames.
• Click the minus - sign right half of the square in the global column for both rows. They will turn red.
• Click the padlock icon at the top of the popup to save this rule permanently across the entire internet. UBo icon turns blue

To make exceptions for specific websites when medium mode breaks them. The second column of squares from the left represents the Local settings for the specific site you are currently viewing.

1. While on the website that needs an exception, click the uBlock Origin icon.
2. Look at the local column (the second column) for the specific row or domain you want to allow.
3. Click the plus + on the left half of that square to make it grey (noop) to temporarily allow those scripts or frames just on this specific website.
4. If the website now works correctly, click the padlock icon to save your local exception so you do not have to fix it again next time.

The colors show you exactly what code is allowed to run on a page.

• Red means blocked. uBlock is stopping that specific script, frame, or domain from loading any data or code.
• Green means allowed. You have manually given permission for that specific domain or type of content to load, bypassing the default blocklists.
• Gray means noop or neutral. uBlock is not forcing a block or an allowance on its own. Instead, it defers to your standard filter lists to decide if something should be blocked.

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Hard mode takes your blocking settings one step further. While medium mode blocks third party scripts and frames, hard mode blocks all third-party requests entirely. This means images, fonts, styles, and data coming from any other website are completely blocked by default. You only see the things hosted directly by the exact domain you are visiting.

To turn Hard Mode on for the entire internet, you build directly on top of your current settings :

1. Click the uBlock Origin icon to open the panel.
2. Find the row at the top labeled 3rd party.
3. Click the right half of that square in the global column and it will turn dark red.
4. Click the padlock icon to save this as your universal rule. UBo icon turns red

The primary reason to use hard mode is maximum security and extreme privacy. By blocking all third party requests, you prevent tracking networks from mapping your browsing behavior through tracking pixels or custom web fonts. Which drastically cuts down on data usage and page load times, as your browser stops downloading extra files from secondary servers. And It protects you against advanced web vulnerabilities that hide inside seemingly harmless third party content.

If anything breaks in a certain site:

• Open the uBlock panel on the broken website.
• Look at the local column (the second column) to see what is being blocked. You will see a long list of external domains covered in red.
• Use the gray or green columns to unblock essential resources. A great trick is to look for content delivery networks that handle styling, which often have words like cdn, cloudflare, or assets in their name they may be the reason for this.
• If you trust the main company, you can turn the local 3rd party row to gray. This temporarily drops you back down to medium mode just for this specific website, allowing it to load while still keeping malicious scripts blocked.
• Once the page looks normal and functions correctly, click the padlock icon to lock in your local rules.

You might occasionally want to permanently ban a specific, individual domain like google outside of google services so it can never load under any circumstances. You do this the same way you blocked the 3rd party scripts, just choose that specific domain.

The domain is now completely blocked. If you try to visit it directly, uBlock will safely halt the connection before your browser even sends a request to their server. Unless you noop it locally.

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So there is no need to install 10 different script blockers and adblock extensions to your browser, UBo can handle it all by itself saving memory and making web faster.

Note: There is an AD free client you can use to watch youtube called FreeTube, it is open source with no log in or tracking and it saves the channels and playlists you love locally on your drive.

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