The upgrade process on Kinoite (KDE Atomic) was extremely fast and smooth. Fedora has always been among the most reliable when it comes to upgrades in my experience.

The prices are insane though. $539 for a 6 Pro that has already received its last major update and is only getting 2 years of security updates. $629 for a 7 Pro that adds one more year of updates. Plus the 7 Pro can be bought new with 4 times the storage for less money.

But T-Mobile is still offering the service, so it is not the lifetime of that either.

It is so bad, they can not talk about.

A GitHub issue was opened for Syncthing-Fork, so it will be worth watching that to know whether it will continue to be supported.

Kobo

Twine is a great simple RSS reader and it is open source.

I am currently using NewsBlur because I like how it syncs across devices and its tagging system. It is also open source, but it is not the prettiest and the UX takes some getting used to.

Bitwarden. It is open source, reliable, easy to use, and compatible with everything. The free version has nearly everything, but I have the paid version to support development because $10 per year is very reasonable.

I do regularly export my password vault to KeePassXC as my backup though.

Thank you. I am not sure how that only ended up on that link.

Syncthing: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

KDE Connect: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.kde.kdeconnect_tp/

AntennaPod: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

DAVx⁵: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/

Obtanium: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.imranr.obtainium.fdroid/

Voyager for Lemmy: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.vger.voyager/

Edit: Fixed link

And laid off all but one person. Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/nova-launcher-savior-of-cruft-filled-android-phones-is-on-life-support/

Firefox and Brave Search

This does not apply to the server. Only the client app is open source. The server is proprietary.

I am not sure that northwest corner of Utah was worth giving up all that other territory. /s

They switched to USB-C last year with the iPhone 15.

Bitwarden is a means of saving some money and also not putting all your eggs in one basket, so it kind of is an answer to your question.

As others have said, no matter what you use, make sure you have regular backups.

Whoever had the number before you likely gave it out to any service that asked.

Since you only use it for data, I recommend contacting your provider and asking for a different number.

Miracast and Chromecast are different. Miracast is the open standard while Chromecast is Google’s proprietary casting protocol.

Roku supports both Miracast and AirPlay, but I don’t think it supports Chromecast.

Google has done price increases the last 2 or 3 years, so they no longer have a price advantage. Samsung also has the same 7 year support window.

Proton is still a for-profit company and has shareholders who expect to to make money. The change is that the largest shareholder of the for-profit company is now a separate non-profit organization. It is still a positive move, but not entirely what the marketing makes it seem.