Semi-private as well. I try to have completely separate identities on different websites that aren’t easily linked to each other, and each different identity has different “boundaries” on what I will share about myself. e.g. on some websites I share what country I live in, some I don’t. On some websites I specify my gender, on some I don’t. Tbh I don’t think I specify my age anywhere because I started using the internet as a kid and got used to never stating my age—still feels wrong today as an adult.

That all being said, I do still have varying things I’m open about in different contexts to enable me to have conversations about topics I want to have conversations about. I don’t state anything my government doesn’t know though (unless it’s completely irrelevant/useless for them to know).

In the US, they use “liberal” to mean “left-wing” (and their left wing is also most countries’ right-wing or centre).

Liberalism actually refers to, essentially, the ideology of the bourgeoisie: of individual freedoms, markets, inalienable property rights, etc. In most countries with a political party that calls itself “liberal”, these parties will be centre to right wing and generally support a “freer” market as well as some social freedoms.

I have no money atm but my last round of FOSS donations was just picking based on a function of how much I use a piece of software; how much I like it; and how much money I think it already gets. e.g. I didn’t donate to the Linux kernel because that’s already well-funded, even though I use it every day and like it well enough.

I think my last donations included River (the Wayland compositor I use). For the life of me I can’t remember what else there was but I tend to do rounds of donations when I have money to spare and just pick software based on the above criteria.

RSS/Atom feeds are exactly what you describe. And there are plenty of local-only RSS readers. I use newsboat personally. There are also GUI programs, and mobile apps, if that’s your preference.

Why can’t I have a file in two folders? Why does one have to be a “reference”?

You can do this… Hard links. Neither file is more “canonical” than the other.

Depends on the country. Also “can” is different to “will”. In most countries it is unlikely anything will happen if you use a good VPN.

chezmoi does everything I need. It’s really nice; would recommend.

I wash my body towels (for stepping out of the shower) weekly. I wash hand towels, for drying hands after washing hands, whenever I feel like it, quite infrequently but they get washed.

I’d only replace a towel if it fell apart or something like that. If it’s unusable.

You’ve rather boldly made that unsubstantiated claim. Who do you think these scammers are? They’re from poor countries suffering from the aftereffects of colonialism and the ongoing effects of neocolonialism, all of which cause many social problems including the kind that drive people, either through direct violent coercion or more indirect economic coercion, to do things like scam westerners.

Just do full disk encryption + autologin. Done

Game dev is much more about creativity than technical excellence, for the average hobbyist. So I’d say it’s actually a good hobby to get into if you’re “not the sharpest tool in the shed”. You could even go down a no-code approach like with RPG Maker, if you’re averse to coding.

You should consider why you are so eager to invent and use a slur that is also obviously based on a real racial slur.

Because the purpose is not to be a biography or obituary. The purpose is to say something brief and poignant/emotional. People write actual obituaries/eulogies/biographies for that purpose.

I don’t have anything to talk about with others

Find an activity to do together? A game to play perhaps?

the Gecko engine is open source so it can be stuck with even if Mozilla goes away

Good luck finding people both capable and willing to maintain it if Mozilla abandons it.

The idea though that we need to switch to a new browser engine because we lost faith in Mozilla is a bit silly

I am saying the opposite. I explicitly said I don’t think that would achieve anything. Just because something constitutes a boycott (i.e. using a different browser engine) doesn’t mean that there’s a point to it.

Can you remove the drive? Could remove the drive and put it on another computer then install Linux then reinstall the drive into the Macbook?

Forking the codebase and stripping out any AI code is much easier than trying to invent another wheel.

I never said otherwise. I simply said that using Librewolf is not boycotting Firefox.

Using Librewolf isn’t boycotting Firefox. Librewolf is a soft fork and is dependent on Mozilla for updates. You could switch to Ladybird or something more obscure, but I don’t think you’ll achieve much with that either.

They should be pretty on it for security updates. Librewolf is also hardened compared to upstream Firefox so if security is a concern, you’re probably better off using the fork anyway.

If it’s so easy to “use wrong” then it’s badly designed software.