Too much advertising, it just feels off.

Fedora does this too, it's really obnoxious.

Haven't seen a single bit of toxic stuff yet, my feed is all cute art and photography.

When you use it the browser pops up a window to select a device to connect, I'm not sure if the website can see anything until you actually pick a device and allow.

I don't like that google selectively chooses to show certain businesses over others.

But at the same time the lower screenshot is just pure information overload, it has way too much going on for a casual map to use while walking around and that sort of thing.

Firefox with uBlock Origin also works nicely.

I'm always conflicted on this kind of thing, because for every person annoyed that it's asking there's a bunch that are complaining that they lost all their photos because their phone was stolen or something like that, and had no idea that they need to backup their stuff.

I imagine the overlap of people who use Snapchat and people who use Firefox is pretty small, they probably see such a small amount of users with Firefox and they just decided not to support it.

Syncthing keeps folders in sync between multiple devices, it doesn't have any concept of users since it's not designed for that.

You want Nextcloud or similar 'google drive' replacement if you want to share individual files and folders with specific users easily.

A Pi 5 8GB is very expensive once you buy the power supply, case, cooling, adapters, etc.. And you're stuck with ARM64 stuff which doesn't support some things.

Personally in your shoes I would spend $80 or so on a USFF PC with an 8th or 9th gen Intel CPU off ebay.

They're also useful because they're easy to deploy, contain all the dependencies needed, portable, and isolate things breaking from affecting the host or other containers.

I would say that's not pirating from an ethical perspective. If it's actually legal with current laws may be another story.

My viewpoint is I've paid for the right to play the game, where I get it from doesn't matter.