they're going with numbers along with usernames, kinda like discord to reduce spam. I hope they work.
You'd need to get a GPU with drivers for ARM macOS.
I don't really know much about this topic but didn't asahi linux reverse engineer them already?
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.html
Sesame basically stopped updating their app even before they got acquired, so they hadn't added any analytics or trackers. There were some updates after but they were just bug fixes. Exodus tells me there are no known trackers, I also haven't seen any suspicious traffic from it yet so I still use them.
Nova, however will be integrated with Branch and will likely phoning home.
I still use sesame. Tasker is set as assistant app and it will launch sesame when assistant is triggered. It has served me well, but integrations are breaking so will have to see how long it will last. I also have Nova Prime but switched after the buyout.
Sesame was also bought out by the same company, so Nova and Sesame developers are working together with Branch.
I use a TTS extension which reads out text using the system's TTS engine. I forgot the name but it's very handy for reading or reviewing text.
do they remove stories and other bloat?