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Not the best solution but I will leave it in case no one else comments; maybe consider a different vpn provider that does not assign a port on every connection such as mullvad. You should be able to follow this example: https://github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage/blob/main/Torrent-VPN/docker-compose.yml

They have partnered with a (secret for now) hardware vendor so we should have other options in the future.

It works well for me. I did hear that there was bad support for baking apps but they seem to work fine.

I have had trouble with ride hailing apps as they seem to use googles integrity API.

The only annoyance is that after an update by bluetooth controller gets disconnected.

I hope Nokia

Thank you for the recommendation. I have been wanting to try out the FUTO apps (which grayjay) for a while but couldn't find it on f-droid. It looks like they have their own repo which you need to add.

Just got grayjay downloaded and it is so good!

Another reason no one else has mentioned yet is that countries want to have control over their own power generation. If you're power is all generated in another country then it can potentially be turned off by another country.

Before the recs I just want to shout out libro.FM - they sell audiobooks and donate half of the profits to independent book stores.

Classic sci fi:

• The dispossessed - also the left hand of darkness (which is meant to be good buy Inhavent read)
• Foundation series
• permutation city

I think the more modern sci fi is good too so I will give you some recommendations anyway:

• Project Hail Mary - mentioned by other commenters, really good
• Children of time - first and best of a series, really good
• Expanse - series of books set in the near future, hard sci fi and a bit of space opera
• Red rising - a space opera a bit like a fantasy book in a sci fi setting
• Murderbot - series with a bit more more comed, very entertaining and easy to get into

From what I remember they were using GNOME for pop os with some custom addons they had made (for example a tiling addon). GNOME updates will sometimes break addons and I think the pop os people got tired of this.

I actually really liked the addon as it would help you have a workflow closer to a tiling window manager.

So they are creating a DE with the features they think are important (tiling, performance, others) in mind from the start. I like the idea of this as I don't want to commit to installing 100's of tools for a tiling window manager like hyprland but I do want the benefits of tiling.

Also it's written in rust which implies performance and security.

sailfish?