set up your own vpn server on a ‘low end box’ (small and cheap vps) for your own exclusive use.

it’s probably gonna be plasma6 by a hair over cinnamon on a rolling distribution. as much as people shit on manjaro here and on that other site, it has never broke on me–whether i update constantly or let it go 2-3 months between them.

but if the de and the underlying os are magically compatible, and those and programs kept up to date, never obsolete, and new ones appear for it as needed or desired… then sorry, it won’t be linux… i’m going back to something like 95osr2, 98se or w2k.

democrats are simply the ‘lesser evil’, and have been since the 1960s, at least… and we’ve needed a viable third party left of the mainstream for longer.

republican administrations drag us down and undo gains made. democrats repair some of the damage–but never quite enough, never push progress enough. they lose. it gets undone again and the cycle repeats.

but now it’s all getting destroyed. there may not be a continuation of the cycle. it’s hell from here on until ‘trumpism’ and maga are what is completely destroyed.

i find ddg sufficient for nearly everything. occasionally i will go to startpage or ecosia or mojeek for a different ‘perspective’, but that is not very often at all. i also use wolframalpha almost daily for some sort of calculation or conversion.

i haven’t used google or bing except by accident when using someone else’s browser or device (that is, when i forget to go to duck.com first).

yes, it is. but between it and graphhopper (or osm), it’s “enough” for me.

i don’t need a feature-filled “app” (my phone is ‘dumb’), and the only time i end up on something else like bing or google maps is if a site i need to use embeds and relies upon them.

ddg maps is just a no-frills apple maps.

it’s a two minute movie. doesn’t even get through the opening titles before autopilot crashes and kills the occupants.

none. sounds like you’re cursed to ride the windows train for life.

any ‘lawful’ access that’s baked-in will also be used and exploited ‘unlawfully’.

i’ve been using firefox and its predecessors since the very beginning, all the way back to pre-release navigator.

i do have (and have always had) other browsers installed (using ‘portable’ installations of them, mostly, these days). currently those include vivaldi, opera, librewolf and waterfox. at least one of which is added along side firefox on each desktop (most often also with a firefox dev edition). these are mostly for testing but also to separate specific online tasks into their own browser. the chromium-based ones are used for very specific things requiring addons that don’t work well or at all with firefox.

unless i need to in order to assist a client, i do not use chrome as provided by google, and i do not use edge from microsoft except for its primary function: downloading another browser when i don’t have a flash drive handy with its installer already downloaded and saved to it.

having actually read the policy documents in question and considering the intent and purpose of the changes that mozilla is making, i have no plans on changing my primary browser.

even the old ‘xp mode’ for win7 was just a vm.

you can have (well, used to) eggs anytime… fried, boiled, scrambled, omelets, poached–whatever. but gram’s special deviled eggs were for ‘special occasions’ only. she always made enough, so yea. gonna eat far more eggs that way than i ever would in a normal breakfast or meal.

i had just looked this one up recently:
the little nub on a peanut is an embryo.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peanuts-embryo-nub_n_56d4a305e4b03260bf77b808

Steam is already on their systems, and may have been for 20+ years.

since the update to counter-strike that required it. so that’s what? 2003?

my original retail counter-strike was the first thing on mine. retail hl2 was second.

i was impressed with cosmic when i gave it a spin here… it has a lot of potential… just still very ‘incomplete’ currently.

it does get marginally better once you do run out.

i did my part. got about 40 of them last year.

epic freebies from 2024 played: 0

epic freebies from 2024 installed: 0

the only freebie of theirs i have installed right now is one of the CIVs.

tbh i don’t think a single can in a day is all that much if your diet is otherwise reasonable and balanced.

do you think it’s the bubbles or the 40-some mg of caffeine that gets you grabbing one every day?

wasn’t everyone born on 1 jan 1970 at 00:00:00 utc?

only the feds can prosecute federal crimes, afaik. this administration won’t let that happen. any federal prosecutor that wants to take a shot is gonna get fired or pushed out a window the instant their intent becomes known.

the dipshit would have to venture to a state with non-conflicting laws on the books, break them in some spectacular fashion, and that state would have to have an ag willing to go down that road and prosecute.