AFAIK, I can purge Googleware from my phone with Shizuku and replace it with microG, but I'm afraid it is unsafe

I know it depends on the volume, but want to know at least aproximately. I have never used perfume on a daily basis and I am really curious about how often do people need to buy it, if using almost every day?

Today I installed Lineage OS on my phone. Afterwards, I decided to use root with magisk.

Due to my ignorance, I flashed patched recovery into the boot partition, which resulted in a bootloop. I realized my mistake, proceeded with installing Lineage again, and then flashed patched boot image to the corresponding partition. After that, I got a bootloop again, but it can be overriden by holding Volume up + Power while booting.

All the changes I make in the phone (e.g. installed apps, settings) persist.

Probably, my ROM is goofed, but it is still able to boot from recovery.

I think I should reflash everything from scratch, but I'm not sure about the order. Should I reinstall Lineage first and then reflash the boot image?

UPD: This did NOT work.

SOLVED: I flashed a non-patched boot.img provided by Lineage, now the bootloop is solved. The actual problem was that I have patched boot.img NOT right on the target device. Flashing non-patched image provided by Lineage fixed the bootloop.

Firefox with its forks went sluggish recently and I want to try something new. The only Chrome based browser worth mentioning I know is Brave, but it is bloated as hell. I heard of Vanadium, but found no prebuilt binaries.

They make FOSS clients for many prop things, why can I find nothing on WA?

I joined Pixelfed as a free alternative to ig. I expected it to be an entertainment platform, but, same as across the Fediverse in general, Pixelfed is full of posts on politics. I want to block any posts in Pixelfed that are related to politics. What filter rules can I use to do this effectively?

UPD: I found out that a fair amount of such content is coming from Mastodon. Does anyone know if I can hide posts from my feed and search results based on their platform of origin?

I currently have no opportunity to upgrade my laptop, but I need to perform resource-intensive tasks on it. The real bottlenecks are the CPU (Ryzen 3250U 2,6GHz) and the RAM (8GB DDR4). The core problem is the RAM amount. 8GB is nothing, and 2,3 of it is statically reserved by the integrated GPU, while GPU does not actually matter for my needs, so I have only 5,7GB available no matter what. I also think that the CPU is actual junk. But as I said, cannot upgrade rn, but need some performance.

Sooo, how do I actually reduce the RAM amount reserved by the GPU? I have no such option in BIOS.

Also, does Windows 10/11 choice matter, considering that I will use a solid debloating script? UPDATE: I can not use Linux. Even though I want to. The programs I need have no Linux alternatives and are very tricky under wine.

Any other advice on optimizing the existing hardware and Windows are welcome.

There is lots of books, videos and manuals about bash. So it is hard to tell if one is good or not. By advanced bash I mean regular expressions, complex scripts, and kind-of obscure options of basic commands no beginner tutorial tells about.

Every website used to be like "www.example.com". Now I rarely encounter this "www.". Why did it even exist and where has it gone? I also used to run into websites with legitimate domains, but "ww1." instead of "www.", these were probably phishing sites, but how did this actually work on top of legitimate domains?

I'm a beginner in programming, and I found out I cannot even reproduce a simple number guessing program I have earlier copied from a book.

Is it a beginner issue, or there is more than just continuing to learn to be able to code without hints?

There was an issue with Zen about a year ago, it used to send Mozilla telemetry requests, and the developers had ignored any complaints on it. Anyone knows if the situation has changed since?

I found nothing on how private Helium is. People usually just say it is garbage because of the engine, but that's not what I care about.