instead of having 12984 tabs open, you can have 345 groups with only a few dozen tabs in each one.

i had a monitor like that once. big bright af blue power light baked into the power button, bottom center of the bezel. blue led was the ‘new’ thing back then. the barton-era matching pc (which i didn’t have) had a larger matching button on its front. if you know your '00s pavilions, you know the ones.

it was horrible. that monitor lived its entire life with a black piece of paper taped over the whole switch and light. i was not saddened when it finally gave up and failed to turn on. i was more annoyed that it took 15 years for it to fail.

my first ‘distro’ was slackware, on floppy disks. then debian or a flavour of, mainly, ever since. i’ve never really strayed too far from debian and apt over the years but i have tried most everything.

of course they did. free insider trading tips was one of the free gifts with purchase of a president.

to infinity and beyond.

i think it comes with the territory; the kinds of users that lemmy attracts–and doesn’t.

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.

i guess they have not ‘contributed’ enough to the new king yet.

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

random duck results include many sites claiming things like:

Convert your Python Code to Javascript. This exceptional AI-powered tool converts your Python code into Javascript code easily, eliminating the need for manual re-coding. Save your precious time and unlock cross-platform development like never before with our converter tool

what could possibly go wrong?

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.

this ‘new’ and oh so ‘generous’ thing…

comes on the heels of killing-off the totally free, previously already installed on every fucking windows pc since version one point oh, no obligation, no online account required, no cloud forced upon you, and good enough for literally millions and millions of people, wordpad.

so no, microsoft does not get a pass here. absolutely not.

that’s the hook. they are mandating having and using onedrive cloud storage, and having its requisite microsoft account, in order to use this ‘free’ application.