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I know at least one person who said they use Googles DNS because it stopped them getting pissy letters from their ISP.
Some people only care about privacy to the point were they don’t see the immediate consequences for their actions.
I’ve been using DDG since 2016 and never felt it was worse in terms of “search quality” than Google.
Especially nowadays I hear friends whine near weekly about Google, but it’s still somehow “better than DDG”.
Honestly people just make excuses not to change what they’re use to. Even if what they’re used to has changed around them for the worse.
My only real complain I have is I wish ‘search by date range’ was less finicky use and also worked in the image tab like it does in Google images.
I’ve been wanting to abandon ship for years, but sadly convincing the average gamer is another story.
Which is the main reason most of us are stuck using it if we want to talk to friends.
It’s not really an issue for the end user. But it’s basically made for companies to take advantage of free hobbyist developers without needing to give anything back in return.
So if you’re the kind of person who runs to foss software to get away from corporate tech bull, having a license that benefits companies more than users just kinda feels scummy.
My ex had one of them RGB everything rainbow gamer PCs.
Windows would auto boot to update in the middle of the night and turn the whole apartment into a rave…
Lately it’s been sifting through IMDB collections to find movies to watch.
That or I check the groups I’m in to see what I’m late to the party on now.
Welcome to the Club!
I had a similar issue around 2 years ago now on POP where my bootloader didn’t even show up in the bios anymore.
If you still have the a USB with the live boot of POP you can use it to recover your files n stuff.
Can someone correct me here.
If I have i2P enabled on my qBittorent client and I start seeding a torrent downloaded from a non-i2P connection.
Does my seed of it allow others to download that torrent through i2P?
qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.
I still got a torrent from 2005 seeding, with 2 other people.
I was surprised how many co-workers my age and younger (GenZ) don’t even own a laptop let alone a desktop.
I know it was becoming more niche, but didn’t expect it to happen that fast…
A VPN is a must have for browsing the internet in the UK these days, our laws and only getting more Orwellian by the day.
By all means do what you must to avoid handing over data to our police-state government.
Leave a text file along with your music including a donation link and thanking people for listening.
I’ve heard more than a handful of artists getting some money that way after putting their own albums up on torrent/file-share sites.
As someone who started using Linux while on Nvidia and stuck with it for over a year before going full AMD.
Just go AMD, so many little things I had to find workarounds for just because of Nvidias shitty drivers.
Even after Nvidia claimed to support wayland I could never get it to run on my install, then having to manually configure my xorg just to get my 170hz monitor working which then introduced graphical issues I just couldn’t fix…NONE of that was an issue the moment I swapped to a RX 7800 XT, didn’t even have to install any drivers they’re just standard in the kernal.
This one ^
The physical comedy alone is gold, Also you won’t leave their parents dealing with the nightmares like some of these movies…unless they really fear someone breaking in to piss on their rug.
Seagate has been very hit n miss with me. I’ve had one of their drives last near a decade only for a newer model of the same drive to fail within 6 months.
What’s generally considered more reliable brands for around the same price? preferably ones easy to grab in the UK.
I’m older GenZ “Zillennial”?
What in particular makes you think there’s not many of us on here? Not like Lemmy makes you state your age on your account.
I don’t use Battle.net but I had a similar issue when using EA Desktop through Lutris. The program would demand a restart to apply updates then would just shutdown and say the same thing next time you ran it, if it even still ran.
My permanent fix was to use Bottles for EA Games and it’s worked fine ever since then. Lutris works fine for everything else though.
EndeavourOS is what got me to daily drive Linux finally.
The installation is easy, it’s got sane defaults and pre-installs most common dependencies.
Gives me more Windows 8 flashbacks than Mac.
An interface that works well on touchscreens, but feels clunky on mouse and keyboard and the general theming of it looks more phone like than a desktop PC. Gnome itself being harder to theme doesn’t help with that.
That being said I’d pick Gnome over all else for touch devices. I threw it on an old Surface 3 and it worked better than the original Win8 interface.