I was clearing out my old account and there was something like 800 coins there, and I've never paid reddit a cent. So yeah, I'd say free coins.
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Try this other fork. You shouldn't need to edit any code, just drag the button into your bookmarks toolbar. You might need to enable a setting to show the toolbar.
Most likely will, since manufacturers won't want to design multiple models with and without replaceable batteries for the most part.
A reasonable article I feel. I am looking forward to trying mobile Linux on a secondary phone, but it's likely a long way off from being ready as a daily driver for most people.
Unofficial crDroid with Poco X2. No real issues, although I haven't been able to get SBC-XQ working which it supposedly supports.
Stock android ROM(s) sound like a good fit since you seem to like a minimal experience.
GrapheneOS would probably suit you too and has improved privacy and security, but it's Pixel only so I've never got to try it myself.
It's not trivial but not as hard as I thought, at least last time I tried it. The absurd amount of disk space the build environment requires, along with the time to actually clone it it, is probably the most annoying part.
You could use it as a source for contributing links rather than interacting with existing threads. Which is more important in the early days, particularly for niche communities.
There's also audiobookshelf for a self-hosted approach to audiodooks and podcasts, although the podcast functionality does still need some work.
0.18 is only in release candidate stage so isn't in a final version yet. And the instances themselves won't necessarily immediately to jump to the new version I would suspect.
Apparently the lemmy.world one is an "official" one built by the /r/pop_os mods, so probably makes sense to consolidate there. But yeah, it's all still shaking out in general and it probably won't be clear which is the main community/magazine initially for many places.
If I remember right, ABP is the one that was taking payments from companies to let through their advertisements. Ublock origin is free and open source and doesn't have any of that.