syncthing to sync your notes folder (and your pictures, audiobooks, whatevers); then the editors can be anything, i.e. whatever you prefer on each platform. sync over the internet can be disabled and set so it works only on your home LAN. also, sync direction, maybe you want it to sync only one way. turn on versioning to get at the version from two weeks ago. etc.

you should be in the know by now to not get locked in by any one provider or app. always go with the thing that gives you exit options.

I don't think that's correct as I've registered a fresh account as described, during the setup phase of a phone, within the last month and no phone number was needed. I'll give you the benefit of doubt as I don't want to do that again just to disprove a stranger on the internet, but if anything changed it had to change in this very, very recent period.

edit: the posit of OP was to open an account in order to be able to register to other accounts, not go jasonbourne on 5eyes and friends.

I ain't got none of those and this is/was the only way you can open a gmail account without a phone number; as posited in OP, this is to be used only to register to stuff, not use it as a comms medium.

buncha folks are running linux on macbooks, but their experience will be of little use to you as T2 macbooks are hella complicated in that regard.

the wifi going away, unless it's the published fix on t2linux (restart NetworkManager on resume via systemd), is something you need to describe in more detail.

never had/heard issues wrt trackpad, I'd have to look into that.

not waking after sleep promptly is due to softlocks on the CPU; it will wake eventually. if you're not happy with that, there's a short script that shuts all cores off prior to standby and reactivates them on wake; that puts the wake time to a coupla seconds.

get your old android phone, no phone # needed. install lineageos + gapps. go to some public wifi spot. register a fresh gmail account. jot the login down somewhere. reset/wipe your phone. you're done.

I'd rather stop communicating altogether than do anything that involves interacting with shitcoins in any shape or form.

yeah, nvram GfxMode= and reboot enables it

my mistake, oneplus 6 is. was sure f1 was also there but now I see it isn't.

the thing with halium is you have better hardware compatibility as android can use the OEM blobs, whereas you have more modern kernels, software, etc. with postmarketOS/mobian but worse hardware issues, e.g. cameras mainly.

so based on that, choose your fighter. good luck

no, British Telly is showing fine, !die_reklame@feddit.org is hidden. I haven't selected "hide bot stuff" anywhere in settings.

thanks for the reply. filtered is empty and the community is !die_reklame@feddit.org

this is how it shows in the sidebar (subscribed). went through all options and nowhere is it listed as blocked/silenced/whatever.

yes, clicking "show" reveals the post.

let's get some pterodactyls going up in here, there's way too many of us causing too much trouble

was there at any time , say in the last 50 or so years, at any point, new tech that we, the tech enthusiasts, folks who go out of their way to buy and use and find new uses for tech, tech that we somehow missed to see its usefulness? anything that needed this much debating and convincing and hand-wrangling and moral bargaining? and having those fucking cretins on the other side of the argument?

did someone need to convince you the web is awesome? mobile phone? electric car? conversely, you instantly knew VR is bullshit. and crypto. and all its derivatives.

this shit ain't what they say it is, there ain't no I in this ai. you perpetuating this butlerian bullshit means you swallowed their spiel (look up critihyping), that this financial scam dressed up as progress is an inevitability.

this just needs a normal revolution, of the kind that was enacted a coupla times in history, stripping the right folks of a buncha stuff that I ain't gonna specify here, for entirely legal reasons.

are you looking to get a phone at this stage? then skip that one and go for a Poco F1 or Oneplus 6/6T. those run the way more powerful SDM845, have faster storage, available in 6 or 8 GB RAM, and most important, have the widest suport for other linuxes, postmarketOS and mobian, as well as UT. prices should be in the same ballpark, as all of those are close to 10 years old; if you can choose, F1 can be opened way easier for battery replacement.

those two run native mainline linux whereas UT runs on Halium (that's like android + linux in a VM). also !linuxphones@lemmy.ml

edit: haven't answered the question - 6 GB is obv more than enough for normal use; 4 GB ain't.