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.

conversion to north american safety and emissions standards would probably double the price, and then tack on extra profit because ‘yea! capitalism’, call it triple–at least. and probably still be the best lower-cost option on the market.

i would love to see basic cars and light trucks, especially ev. you don’t need computers to control everything, touch screens everywhere, and ‘automatic’ everything, just to power a car with batteries and electric motors instead of a petrol engine.

samsung’s printer business was acquiredextinguished by the devilhp in 2017

if you’ve not ever updated the firmware of the printer, it might just be a faulty third-party cartridge. try another.

if the one you’re having difficulty with was a recent purchase, ask the vendor for a swap. the good ones will happily send another.

they could put them all on it. the approx 600 titles combined take up about 4 megabytes of space.

on amazon, you aren’t buying “from” lenovo or apple. i don’t recall ever seeing a major pc builder/oem with their own marketplace account; and rarely even from amazon itself. most of the computers up for sale on amazon are offered and sold by third-party marketplace sellers.

if you’re ‘concerned’ to the point of raising the question to begin with–yes, buy locally with cash.

drivesavers, gillware, and ontrack. those are the ones i refer people to. expect a cost of $700-1000 or higher.

if it’s anything like our guaranteed ‘price for life’ internet from the phone company here–it lasts as long as they want it to.

(which, for our internet, was less than two years)

tenfold? imagine if an adversary had free and unfettered access to every network those morons have touched…

oh. right. the adversary is already there.

imho, some really bad layout choices were made here.

small numzero, mutilated ‘six pack’ (above the arrows), FuNctioned-home & end, top row delete, no ins, no legacy (but still useful!) keys.

all to save two keys’ width. while a standard size and layout would have allowed for familiar and expected key locations, the extra knob, a calc button, and a wider spot in the top row for the lcd

a two-minute scan of products for sale on amazon will tell you that society is to the point of mashing keyboards to string letters together to come up with company names. this at least has consonants and vowels arranged in an order that resembles a word.

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.

kwik trip’s self-serve ‘fresh blends’ smoothie machines use it. see one crashed every now and then here.

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.

we always had to go pick up the pizza! pizza!, unless we were goin’ to super-k, which had little caesars inside with a dining area.

ddg maps is just a no-frills apple maps.

that would be funny, won’t happen–but funny af. google loses chrome, new owners revert mv2’s removal and go all-in on user control of their browser experience.

i expect at least the ‘big’ ‘non megacorp’ chromium based ones like vivaldi, opera, brave to keep mv2 as long as it is possible.

but i can totally see google doing some serious mangling of the codebase to make patching-in mv2 difficult.