Reddit be like.

Not if you install a custom rom like graphene os. Or turn off all privacy invasive features in the settings.

YES

Is there any open source/privacy focused connected car software?

I don’t really see why this is relevant unless google or bing results are bad (and from my experience they are pretty good) since privacy focused search angines anonymize all search engine requests so you can’t be tracked by google or bing. Also that map really is outdated brave uses it’s own indexing now so it no longer relies on google.

I have used brave search which was really good I really liked the ai search although i moved away from it after seeing how bad google ai search was (saying things like its a good idea to eat rocks due to not being able to recognise satire) and I managed to get brave to do the same thing with a different onion article so i dont really trust any ai search now. At the moment I use searx it’s incredibly private especially if you are willing to self host (I am not) and you have so much customisation you can use any search index so you don’t have to worry about bad results.

Qwant also seams really good although I haven’t tried it, same with ecosia especially if you like planting trees although I use an ad blocker so that doesn’t work for me.

Imo there are so many great free browsers it’s not really worth paying for a browser.

I also don’t recommend duck duck since it used to have a tracking deal with Microsoft. It doesn’t have it anymore but I think it’s enough to lose faith in it.

I’m currently using bazzite due to its really solid out of the box support for gaming hardware and peripherals.

I’m really surprised everyone uses arch. I have three theories as to why:

1. There actually aren’t that many arch uses but when arch users have the opportunity they won’t hesitate to say “BTW I use arch” were as others don’t really bother.
2. There are lots of arch users and everyone uses it because they want to be able to say “BTW I use arch”
3. (Very unlikly) There are lots of arch users and it’s because it’s actually a good distro that people like.

(This is mostly a joke jsyk I’m sure arch is a great distro)

I only use lemmy. Unless youtube counts but I don’t think so.

Yeah so I tried my nvidia gtx 1660 and yeah everything worked perfectly first try.

its a amd ryzen 1600 it doesn’t have an igpu. Although I have a spare gtx 1660 I might try that.

Bazzite has the same issue. Still no display output. And yes I’m sure my hdmi cable is plugged since it still works with safe graphics on and windows works perfectly with no issues.

Yeah it would be bad if that happened. Governments really hate privacy.

Ideally I would have one for each service I sign up for but my proton subscription only allows for 10.

Instead of making a whole new software why not just add number plate cameras to the osm database and make a software that pulls them out and makes it convenient to read?

Yeah I’ve seen this distro seams really good and my main use case is gaming. I will give it a go.

I can’t even get into the login screen without safe graphics on so I’m not sure how I can login to a specific tty.

Yeah that sounds promising. I have read the wiki page and I tried a few boot commands I followed this guide Here is what I have added to the boot manager screen:

(without additions)

GRUB version 2.12 load_video set gfxpayload=keep insmod gzio linux (sroot) /vmlinuz-6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 root=UUID=5еа3757а-72ac-492-9832-50b00b68f405 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb
quiet amdgpu.si_support=1 amdgpu.cik_support=1 initrd (sroot) /initramfs-6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64.1mg stuned_initrd Minimum Emacs-like screen editing is supported. TAB lists completions. Press Ctri-x or F10 to boot, Ctri-c or F2 for a command-line or ESC to discard edits and return to the GRUB menu.

(with additions)

GRUB version 2.12 load_video set gfxpayload=keep insmod gzio linux (sroot) /vmlinuz-6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 root=UUID=5еа3757а-72ac-492-9832-50b00b68f405 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb
quiet amdgpu.si_support=1 amdgpu.cik_support=1 video=LVDS-1:d video=VGA-1:e drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1920x1080.bin initrd (sroot) /initramfs-6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64.1mg stuned_initrd Minimum Emacs-like screen editing is supported. TAB lists completions. Press Ctri-x or F10 to boot, Ctri-c or F2 for a command-line or ESC to discard edits and return to the GRUB menu.

It didn’t work but I think it might be because I am doing something wrong here.

Yep I switched out the cable and a different cable type and a different display didn’t help.

could you explain how I might fix that?

yeah I tried using another display and switching out the display cable didn’t help at all.