Does DDG still have the same upward trend that they used to before Brave caught on?

A T570 on eBay or where you can find it.

Why you said makes me think the number of votes is wholly irrelevent.

What is interesting or helpful is entirely subjective, it’s personal opinion. What is considered misinformation is entirely subjective. That makes me believe the voting count on a post means nothing for indicating the quality.

Considering how any majority of people typically react emotionally rather than have humility and respond with consistant logic, it seems personal opinion on a mass scale is an unreliable gage for quality of material.

What part of what I said did you take to mean that I want insults?

Are suggesting there should be conformity without divergance?

If Proton cared about privacy for VPN for clients, they would remove the login requirement and make ProtonVPN an anonymous services.

If there are concerns about abuse for the network, that’s way the login, how could they figure that out without seeing people’s traffic.

I use RiseupVPN and CalyxVPN for being open source and anonymous.

Until ProtonVPN removes login in their free client, it is not an option.

FreeTube, Invidious, or Rumble.

Not on the same level as SimpleX. With Briar and Session you have you have the same ID for everybody.

For SimpleX you can create a new random ID with each contact, so if you talk with 8 people, SimpleX will create 8 random ID’s and each contact will see you as someone different than how the other contacts see you.

For your hardware setup, I would suggest prioritizing good nVidia driver support over everything. A few distributions do not make the nVidia driver natively available for installation. I expect your Ryzen to be natively supported with 6.1 or 6.2 kernel, but test to see who has the latest nVidia driver to install and thrn decide from there.