Everything. Software, usability, customization, community, you name it. Using Linux has advanced and keeps advancing my computer literacy skills. This would have never happened if I kept using Windows. There’s also the “activist” angle. By using Linux and other FOSS software, I feel like I’m disengaging the worst parts of modern life and society and taking power away from the corpos even if it doesn’t have huge impact.

List of alternatives:

Element

Revolt

Signal

Jitsi (video calls only)

Additionally, Steam has its own built-in social features similar to Discord.

Seems interesting. I currently use a German made keyboard: Das Keyboard. Works beautifully.

Step 1: Be Woman

Step 2: Be of mixed ethnic background

Step 3: Be successful and famous

Step 4: Live in time of intense racial and political antagonization

Add SearxNG as a search engine option.

For those looking for alternatives, there are a number Firefox forks such as Mullvad and Librewolf and then there’s Chromium and it’s various forks (just avoid Edge and, now, sadly, Brave)

1. Bandcamp. You can pay the artist or indie label directly. Sure, you might not find really big name artists on there but you wil find a lot of classics from yesteryear. For example, Mastodon’s (the band) first two albums from they were signed to Relapse Records. Plus you can download in high quality formats like FLAC and WAV.

2. Physical media like CDs and vinyls. Super high quality but three things to consider: money, space and patience

3. Ad-silence. Works with both Spotify and Tidal. There’s also xmanager but that only works with Spotify.

4. My personal favorite: Sailing the high seas.

Not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed.

Console: Sega Dreamcast

PC: Any IBM beige box from the 90s

Oh for fuck’s sake, how many times does this bullshit have to be debunked?!

Here’s a paper that puts this nonsense to rest.

And if that’s too “elitist” for you here’s not one but two Youtube videos.

I remember when Obama tried to normalize relations with Cuba and the possibility of the embargo being lifted and Guantánamo finally closing were close to reality. One can still dream, right?

Mötley Prüdes

I guarantee you that if Costco and other grocery chains implemented mandatory prayer sessions for their employees, these asshats would finally shut up.

Can I reverse engineer it?

Varg was one happy dude then…

I’m not queer (though I consider myself an ally) I will be buying a gun because my last name and skin tone goes against Fürer Orange ideal master race.

I’ll recommend Tuta mail.

Its CEO is kissing Trump’s ass.

The Apple II was a good computer but if I lived in that era I probably would have used a Commodore 64 and later the Amigas or a i386 IBM clone.

Shopping list for this year:

1. AR-15

2. Any 9mm pistol

3. Semtex

4. Military surplus gear

5. Toyota Tacoma