No, but it does severely limit the damage is what I’m saying.

My password manager also holds my passkeys, so I really don’t mind them.

Oh it absolutely helps. Because if you’re using a password manager then every account you have should have a different password.

Most people who don’t use them just use the same password or a variation thereof for everything, making a leak much more devastating.

Some interfaces handle this automatically.

But there’s also this: https://threadiverse.link/

For example, https://threadiverse.link/thelemmy.club/post/23939792

Lemmy is a bit too niche and also it’s open source so if someone has a big enough issue to develop a whole extension for it, they may as well just make those changes directly to Lemmy.

Have you looked at alternative Lemmy interfaces? Your instance hosts a few. https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/alternative-uis

https://old.lemmy.ca/ seems to be down but you can check https://old.thelemmy.club/ if you want to see what MLMYM is like.

For Linux, you find out if there is a package. If not you go to a website and see if there is an app image or zip file. You then need to know where to place the downloaded file, how to get it running (making it executable), knowing how to chmod and chown (it is better to have to do it like in Linux, but it is an extra step), and how to add it to your desktop (there is no right+click and add to desktop/create shortcut option in Arch based distros like there is on Windows). If there is a service component you may need to go into command line and systemctl to enable it.

I don’t think I’ve ever followed that workflow to be honest. Except for when doing something niche and way above and beyond something a casual user would do.

Open the software center, search what you want. Click install. Done. I use the terminal to the same effect but that’s by preference. Installing packages as you described is not at all recommended… They won’t update with the system.

The “add to desktop” thing really depends on your Desktop Environment too. GNOME not really, KDE and most others yeah.

I don’t think the learning curve is any harder than someone who’s learning Windows for the first time.

It’s just different. Honestly in some ways simpler IMO. But if you were a life long Mac user and touched Windows for the first time today you’d probably have a rougher time I think.

Bypassing the battery?

I’ve seen that on some vintage software.

I mean you could do that with most all electronics

I had Microsoft Copilot rewrite this in the style of a LinkedIn in post for you:

Yeah but why would you do that. Nobody wants that.

iirc you can manually sideload from ADB (requires a PC)

No you can still sideload…

So long as that apk/developer has registered. It doesn’t have to be on the Play Store for that.

Still shitty tho

As a white devil I would absolutely fucking wear that.

I have a couple in my Bitwarden (Vaultwarden)

But I already have issues with Android trying to force me to use the system Passkey provider, and companies like Apple only supporting their own device’s built in manager for Apple accounts.

I mean the average dork not cool people like you (if you’re being truthful)

Persons of interest to governments should always be diligent.

It can, but most likely it only would if you’re doing illegal shit and get caught. They’d search your place for evidence and FDE could keep them from discovering some things.

But uh, if they got that far into investigating you then you’re probably already screwed.

2009 didn’t seem so bad, relatively.

Yeahhh you’ll get slapped with penalties for this though.

iirc you could pay your taxes once a quarter but longer than that and there are fines.

I’m not ready for a son thanks