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considering it borders with north Korea that makes sense

occupied Korea?

+1 for crypee

https://search.brave.com/ is the one

Debian Stable ± Flatpak gets best of both worlds

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

Would flatpak mitigate this?

Exactly the same issue with me, I bought it on Good Old Games when I used to run windows as I love the premise of GOG, a similar ethos to Linux of actually owning software - but steam proton is just infinitely more practical.

Have a look at Linux mint: Debian edition (LMDE)

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=N6NYrnvRM3M

Fairphone + DivestOS

Plain ol Debian

for what its worth, I have a hybrid setup and use; https://github.com/bayasdev/envycontrol

https://syphon.org/ is worth a look, its still in alpha but is very promising

I loved Joplin until I realised that your data is stored (locally) unencrypted.

I moved to https://crypt.ee