If something like Ansible is too much, you could list the packages as a bash array in a file

pkgs=(
vim
bash-completion
...
)

Source the file

source pkgs.txt

Then install them

dnf install ${pkgs[@]}

This expands to dnf install vim bash-completion ...

As for listing the installed packages,

dnf repoquery --userinstalled --queryformat '%{name}\n'

The list includes all packages not installed as dependencies, so it’s not quite perfect but might be close enough to what you need.

The array expansion workaround should work for other package managers too, as long as they take the list of packages as whitespace-separated arguments.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t DDG browser also based on Chromium?

You install the Google services and Play store from the gOS Apps application, then use them like normal.

Behind the scenes they run in the sandboxed environment, but to the user it makes no difference.

I run GrapheneOS too. Fortunately there are so few issues that I can just focus on using it, no need to engage the community around it.

Protonmail, but not really because of encryption. I just liked their Android client and webmail the most. I’ve had sensitive backups on Proton Drive for a long time, so that also played a role in the choice.

I hosted my own server for quite a few years, but the SMTP clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, K9 mail) all doing things slightly differently made me give up. Biggest push was that K9 mail didn’t really move deleted mail to trash. These were probably dovecot configuration issues, but I got tired of searching for solutions. Never had any deliverability issues.

The article is old, yes, the first one from a search engine. If you have a source for saying it’s not in the works anymore, I’d be glad to see it. Not saying you’re wrong.

Just this month there was a statement from FiCom (finnish organization advancing IT businesses’ interests) urging our government to not accept the bill, so to me it seems it’s just under development.

link to statement, Sep 13th, in finnish

Coming soon to EU, probably.

https://edri.org/our-work/why-chat-control-is-so-dangerous/