Even the server part for Bitwarden is open source and you can self-host it. Yes, Vaultwarden is a community alternative which is known to be lighter, but you have the choice from Bitwarden too.

The moment they cut the cord on SmartTube (Android TV), I'll block youtube on my local DNS. Fuck them!

the default service is not FOSS

You mean server? If so, the server is also open source (https://github.com/bitwarden/server), but the default instance (bitwarden.com) is not totaly free - you have to have a payed subscription for some of the features. If you self-host, then you have all the features (free and/or premium) - and this can also be done with Vaultwarden which is a FOSS alternative to the official server.

I hate zscaler. At my company it's set up so that it proxies all traffic through it and comes with its own CA certificates, which breaks a lot of things - I can't install pip packages for python, I can't clone/work with git repos if they're on https only. We are used to temporarily disable it to do these things because corporate won't change the policies.

No. S/He's right. Anything (including KDE) is better than gnome.

same for me

Huh? Any script can create a service, enable it and then start it. What would make you think the brave package (or just the application itself) can't do this?

I follow a few blogs/sites that review the music genres that I like. I also read and comment in the tracker's forums, where people suggest new music or discuss about new and old music. And I found that it's much better than getting suggestions on spotify/tidal.

CopyQ

Yes! I moved from aegis to it and it is much better imo.

I think you have a wrong understanding of software auditing. Software can be closed source and 3rd party auditors can assess if it has good privacy and security implementations.

Being closed source doesn't necesarily mean it's bad (for privacy/security).