MangoPenguin

You could always try out an AI service that doesn't collect data like duck.ai: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/

Privacy is not all or nothing, and using one thing doesn't cancel all efforts somewhere else.

Don't go so far into the privacy hole that it affects your mental health. Just do what's easy for you.

Yeah I don't think meshtastic is the right choice for dense areas, even on faster methods it will quickly get overloaded.

I would use the default if you want to connect to other random nodes.

Changing it makes sense for private meshes, not for joining the public though.

It's an interesting thing to think about, wouldn't widespread desktop Linux malware be quite bad because of the lack of any AV/Malware detection typically used?

It's the main thing I miss from using google, the maps results and the business profiles. So far none of the other search engines I've tried have it, or they have an alternative that doesn't work.

Your changes get uploaded to openstreetmap.

Also can easily run a local webdav server with SFTPGo on Linux/BSD/OSX/Windows: https://docs.sftpgo.com/latest/installation/

Or use it directly with your devices to sync instead of going through syncthing.

Maybe Bazzite because it's geared towards working well with gaming out of the box.

You can self host Firefox sync although it's a pain. Or you can sync only bookmarks using an extension like xbrowsersync or floccus. Otherwise using the official Firefox sync is the best option.

Very useful to see if your source/dest are performing as expected.

You can also tell watchtower to cleanup images after update so you don't end up with all of those old ones.