Futo seems very promising, they’re also crowd-aggregating a dataset for improving their swype typing at https://swipe.futo.org

It’ll def go small, idk about split though

My thoughts?

Here’s this guys original YouTube channel, he has a bunch more excellent satire on the topic: https://youtube.com/@mrtadhghickey?si=uW0CbHYK5kika4aU

aren’t we supposed to downvote the third guy or something?

Not stability, I think it’s more about smoothness and integration with the system. Gestures were broken with third party launchers for a long time and still aren’t as good as system

That might be because you limit how well google tracks you

like YouTube Premium completely redundant

Well not really, not having ads is only like 1/3 of the feature set of youtube premium

Yeah, multi factor, that means you still have a regular password as well as the totp.

wdym? What’s a dynamic password?

Phoronix comments are a special place on the internet. Don’t go there for a good discussion.

Site is unreachable

.Net is open source bruh, it’s not proprietary

Grover podcast and fluent cast. Both are nice native apps. Neither is open source though

Didn’t think of that, but that sounds illegal

I prefer to use the ookla sppedtest CLI version. No bs but also better server coverage

Are you talking about manifest v3 or something else? Cause manifest v3 doesn’t force ads, it just cripples third party ad blockers. Also viv, (and some others, like brave) already disable plenty of Google stuff like FloC and privacy sandbox

Yes, but built in adblocker like opera so it’s unaffected

I also used to use opera, and thought the Chinese ownership made me uneasy, I only left due to their short term loan scandal.

But honestly I don’t regret it because vivaldi has a lovely community. Opera just felt cold and faceless, and I didn’t even know anyone else who used it.

Vivaldi has all the features (except VPN) and a lot more, so you won’t find it lacking there

If you want opera without rationalizing what the Chinese government does to you, you can try vivaldi.