If by ‘Experience’ you mean the UI, I really like LibreTube. As you already said, personalized recommendations will only work with the ‘proper’ YouTube app. In that case I’d suggest looking into ReVanced. Afaik it doesn’t improve privacy, but it does revert some of the stupid changes YouTube has made over the years.

Same! I’m lowkey tempted to get a fancy one now, but deep down I know it just isn’t worth it.

If you care to minimize Standby power “comfortably”, usually libraries or power companies will let you borrow an AC Power Meter free of charge.

You can use that to inspect your various devices Standby Power. For example I have an amplifier that pulls nearly 15W in standby, since finding out it lives on a smart plug.

However my TV pulls less than 1W, and at that point I prefer the convenience of just being able to use the remote to turn it on.

(Also keep in mind with the smart plug solution that the plug itself will pull a little bit of power too, this will pretty much always be <1W though.)

If your hate only goes towards touchscreens and not having physical buttons, Mazda is (or at least was) very anti-touchscreen. I haven’t done any research on their current stance or if they have good EVs, but a neighbor of mine was really happy with his Mazda ICE car for having a button for everything.

It’s not a full car or even entertainment system, but comma.ai is an opensource autonomous driving software. Last time I looked into this was a few years ago, but basically for most newer cars you can rip out the adaptive cruise control, and effevtively replace it with autonomous driving. Either powered by certain supported phones or dedicated hardware.

I can one-up that: I bought Java Edition around 2016, claimed the free Bedrock license in 2017, then claimed the other license for each of my original licenses when the accounts merged. I’m still surprised that that worked lol

I’d recommend the Sony Xperia lineup, but it seems as though the IV and V devices aren’t supported by LineageOS (maybe just not yet?).

The Sony Xperia 1 III or 5 III might be fitting for you though.

Not quite, it stands for Quantum-Dot: https://www.samsungdisplay.com/eng/tech/quantum-dot.jsp

I bought an LG TV, connected it to the internet once to download Jellyfin, blocked internet access directly after.

If you’re cool with connecting it to the internet once, I’d recommend LG, the Magic Remote is light years ahead of the competition.

Other than that, just get any OLED TV and don’t give it internet access (or one of the new QD-OLEDs if you have the money for it).

Yes, but as you say, they have a good privacy policy. Also their revenue model backs up their privacy policy, and I find their reasoning as to why they aren’t FOSS fair:

Will Magic Earth be Open Source?

No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.

(from the FAQ)

At least in terms of addresses, I feel like Magic Earth is significantly better than Organic Maps.

I really enjoyed Tetris (2023). The story was super riveting and I also really liked the soundtrack (mostly just “modernized” Tetris music).

I absolutely loved Splatoon 2, especially the DLC. It’s such a shame that you have to pay for online battles though.

I use Magic Earth for driving directions and Organic Maps for looking around on a map, as imo Magic Earth sucks for inspecting a map.

I occasionally pair them with Transportr for public transit.

I do also still keep Google Maps around, as it just still is the best app for navigation. Sometimes I will check which rough route Google Maps prefers, and then use Magic Earth for the actual navigation.

If you want to fully ditch the Google Maps app without losing Google Maps completely, you could also try GMaps WV, a WebView wrapper for the Google Maps website.

I think Organic Maps can do that, possibly with the help of RHVoice.

I have bots on and it’s mostly ever these two.

There are still reddit repost bots, but they are all on reddit repost instances. As I have those like two or three instances blocked, I don’t see any of them.

There’s a lemmy profile setting whether to show bots, you probably have that turned off.

It’s not decentralized, everyone connects to one central server.

I will once again shill for Proxigram (not my project), the only? remaining FOSS instagram frontend. You can try it out on one of the public instances.

I’m not entirely sure if it supports opening Instagram links though.

While I do agree and have stopped using the Samsung keyboard, it does have many unique features that I still miss almost daily.

A few that come to mind:

• a special text editing mode (select all to the left, right; turn select mode on and then move around with arrowkeys while selecting, …)
• visual resizing of the keyboard
• “2D” cursor control (move cursor diagonally)
• swipe spacebar left/right to change input method (while having spacebar cursor control enabled!)