This is super sad, but it’s not like we don’t still have a ton of options. Neo Launcher, Lawnchair, etc.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

I personally use Kanary because it seemed better than Privacy Bee and it was cheaper than Optery. Though I do believe Optery is most likely the best overall, Kanary seemed to be the best for the price.

Mullvad

I was using Silence but had issues with the encryption settings

Oh wow I hadn’t heard of Quik! What other protocols does it integrate? Not much info on their repo.

I use Partisan-SMS (PSMS) it’s a fork of QKSMS with optional encryption

This is the only question that really matters when it comes to these alternatives

Personally I haven’t really changed anything about my entertainment other than how I attain it. Torrented movies, shows, and books, cracked games, and ad+sponsor blocked YT via Piped mean I get all the same entertainment as ever if not more (plus I actually own it forever). The only thing I’ll admit I miss a bit is Reddit.

Why not just let Watchtower do it for you?

Emerald Dialer is FOSS

Right now I’m using a Pi 4 8GB in the Argon case running KonstaKang’s LineageOS Android TV build for Pi and the only con is that it can’t seem to play 4K media very well. But it does a good enough job of replacing my FireTV for everything else.

Bro you’ve already been told on at least one other programmer humor community to stop shilling your mediocre Long Dark rip-off here. Take this to game dev or indie studio / creator communities

Seems like people took this shitpost very seriously

I use Conduit for myself and a couple friends to chat while gaming. It was a bit finicky to setup with the TURN server, but once it was running it’s been great. Even has sliding sync for Element X. Only thing I’m still struggling with is setting up Webhook notifications.

Not to be overlooked! This is by far the quickest and easiest way to be as hands-off as possible

Oh yeah I use my setup (along with Jellyseerr) for anime, TV, and movies.

First things first, pull up Trash Guides and set up the *Arr stack – Sonarr for shows, Radarr for movies, Bazarr for subs, and Prowlarr for indexers/trackers. Then setup transmission+OpenVPN or something similar to torrent behind a VPN. Finally, hook up Jellyfin so you can serve the media.

As somebody who rarely PC games at the moment, I feel it’s pretty bloated for what it is. But my Nvidia GPU worked out of the box so

Currently running Garuda for gaming and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for everything else. Very much look forward to combining them in my own Arch/Void install when I get my new laptop.