Men ellers, hvis dét man går og sukker efter, når det kommer til søgemaskiner, er en Google-søgemaskine, men bare uden Google, så bør man i hvert fald tjekke Startpage ud, da det i meget bogstavelig forstand faktisk er præcis hvad de er!

I så fald vil DuckDuckGo måske være et godt bud til dig. Ud over at de slår sig op på deres tilgang til privatliv, så er deres anden ting nemlig at de prøver at gøre meget ud af at være featureful, fra diverse små, praktiske funktioner, til også at tilbyde forskellige supplerende tjenester.

Der er mange af de andre søgemaskinealternativer der tilbyder en bundsolid hjemmesidesøgning, men så også kun dét, og ikke så.meget mere - hvilket selvfølgelig også har sin berettigelse, afhængig af ens smag, og use case. Men dér går DuckDuckGo omvendt efter at kunne tilbyde en “komplet pakke”. Deres “kronjuvel” af enormt brugbare features må næsten være dét de kalder “Bangs”, så jeg ville i hvert fald tjekke dem ud, hvis du på et tidspunkt giver DuckDuckGo et go.

Hah, jeg håber ikke at jeg lyder som en anden astroturfer, eller noget! Jeg har bare været glad for dem i snart mange år nu. Men den gode nyhed er at der efterhånden er rigtig mange gode alternativer, hvad angår søgemaskiner der ikke er en del af Big Tech.

As am I, but little difference does that make. They used to never show any ads to paying customers, but that seems to have changed a while ago, and its been ramping up ever since. I think most of their products have been patched to show them by now. They’re always ads like AMAZING DEAL! GET BROTON ULTRA POLY DELUXE TRIO FOR BIGAMISTS AND SAVE UP TO ¥3,50 WHEN PURCHASING A SUBSCRIPTION FOR 3 OR MORE YEARS AT A TIIIME - FOR A LIMITED.TIME ONLY (UNTIL WE REPEAT THE EXACT SAME DEAL AT THE NEXT UPCOMING HOLIDAY)!

Only a little bit of hyperbole, but you know what I mean. Fuck, I hate ads so much. I’ve spent considerable efforts to make my life as free of ads as about possible, and then Proton serves me this shit, completely unprompted, and with no way of turning them off. And they’re (in-app) pop-up ads, literally getting in my way and having to be dismissed. The nerve! I don’t care if they’re ads for Proton services, for scuba diving lessons, or messages from a Nigerian prince - they’re all equally unwelcome and in my way.

Many, many places. It’s so strongly regulated here, I think they even have to call it goat drink, too! The cow lobby is bullish, I tell you.

He’s a player, after all. 101010 (I assume that’s binary for 80085).

What manner of machine is that? I feel like it would only look that much more fitting with walker legs instead of wheels.

In fact, this whole picture gives me some real Simon Stålenhag vibes, if only you and your car had been in frame as well.

I swore to that series of mice. I had both a blue and a red MX500, and later the grey, “dented” MX518. I feel like there was an MX510 at some point, too, but I don’t remember it. When my final MX518 finally broke, about a decade ago, I needed to find as close a replacement as possible. I landed on the G402, which I feel comes very close. The shape of the shell is very close, as is the feel of the mouse in your hands. I’ve had no complaints with the sensors. It has the same buttons as the MX518, but the DPI buttons have been shifted a bit, with one of them now being thumb-accessible, and the repositioning is actually a great improvement. I feel like the biggest change is just one of looks, with a pretty big shift in style - but not in feel. A decade on, and I’m still using that mouse, so durability has held up - although, the wheel has started to become slightly unreliable at times, missing a scroll tick now and then. Oh, there’s one other issue I can think of: the stupid built-in “RGB” (in quotes because there’s no RG, only B), can’t actually be turned all the way off - only lowered to a very, very low setting. You probably wont spot that it’s not off in daylight, and in the dark the light is still so dim that you don’t notice it out the corner of your eye, thankfully. Still, should be able to turn it OFF.

Would I recommend it? I’ve been really happy with it overall, and it saved my MX5xx-addicted ass from having to go cold turkey. But don’t go paying some kind of overprice for it - it’s a really solid, MX518-alike older model mouse, but not a literal miracle. I used to swear by Logitech, but reality is that there are other brands that could be just as good fits. The last mouse and keyboard my wife got were from Corsair, and I gotta say, they have been an absolute pleasure to use. Enough so that, even after 25 years of exclusively using Logitech mice and keyboards, if my peripherals broke down today, and I had to get new ones, then I would probably be liable to go for Corsair, and at least consider a variety of options from different brands.

Well, that’s actually one of the new features of Plasma 6.6, which is releasing this month. You might have to wait a while on Kubuntu, but if you’re on something like Fedora, then you should see it probably before the end of the month. :)

On the one hand, I am anything but surprised by such a development. But at the same time, this also sounds like typical disinformation.

Is there someone in the US with an iPhone, who’s willing to verify? Or, with a Android phone, who’s willing to test if a similar thing is the case on that platform, too?

I had that problem, so then I started using https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ - it works well.

I bought my secondhand OnePlus 6T only last year. Installed Linux on it, and I love it. I’m using it as my daily driver.

Sent from my OnePlus 6T and from my bed

Try taking a break from this post for the rest of today. Come back tomorrow, and read your own comments while genuinely pretending they were written by someone else. Take stock of the impression you end up with.

Try to honestly ask yourself, if you were a random person passing by, Linux user or otherwise, with as busy a life as anyone, would you feel particularly encouraged to engage with this commenter?

Avoid Ubuntu - it’s made by the Microsoft of the Linux world. If you want an easy transition from Windows specifically, then you really ought to run KDE Plasma as your desktop environment, as that is by far the most similar to Windows in terms of look, layout and workflow, and it is very flexible in what can be changed and adjusted. GNOME is the other big one, but it feels more Mac-like or tablet-like.

It’s preferable to pick one of those two, as they support the modern Wayland protocol, whereas other desktop environments still only support X11 or only partially support Wayland - I don’t want to infodump on you right now, but suffice to say that Wayland is more secure, and is widely regarded as the future of Linux, while the old X11 has security issues, and is only in maintenance mode now.

Mint, for whatever reason, and unlike almost every other distro, doesn’t come with KDE Plasma as an option. I would recommend Fedora - it’s very solid and well developed, an all purposes workhorse that can do anything you need it to, and it’s a first class citizen anywhere, since it is one of the most commonly used distros by far. My runner-up would be OpenSUSE. If you’re dead set on something Ubuntu-based, then I would take a look at Tuxedo OS, or perhaps just going back to the roots, and install Debian.

Damn, jeg burde ha’ tænkt på den model først. Min løsning var i stedet at installere Linux på min telefon - den sover jeg jo med som var det en anden natbamse. Tror du Android-telefoner drømmer om elektriske pingviner?

Sounds like Victory Conditions from Civilization to me!

THE BALLS ON THESE DRINKS ARE TOO DAMN HIGH!

I really just want an encrypted portable linux device with a cellular modem. I don’t even care if it can SMS or VOLTE, I just need it to run a secure chat client, support Bluetooth headphones and last all day on a charge.

Then you’re in luck, because that’s something you can already have by now! Just get yourself one of the more recent-ish phones that are well supported by PostmarketOS. The things Linux phones struggle the most with these days, are the more traditional phone-things, such as text messages or calling, which may not be ready for production, as they say (although, both texts and calls have actually worked well for me as of late). But if all you want is a pocket Linux computer/PDA, and intend to carry another phone for calls and texting, that’s something you can have, for the grand price of an old, second-hand phone. I’ve been loving my (LUKS-encrypted) OnePlus 6T, and I do actually use it for calls and texts as well!

Indeed. It’s probably more that increasingly more commodities are becoming “smart”, including, but not limited to EVs. I think the reason people are specifically noticing or talking about the “ensmartification” of EVs is because cars are so vastly much more expensive than any other “smart” commodity that, and for most people, an investment of that size needs to be something you can either rely on working for X number of years, or at the very least insure yourself against that happening. But a gadget that can be turned hostile to you, at the drop of a single auto-update, is anything but reliable or dependable - and to my knowledge, becoming enshittified represents a “special” kind of broken, that you can’t insure yourself against.

Hahah, I can’t tell if this comment is queer, or neckbeard. X)

Never fear! I will happily spare you the trouble, and take that old thing off your hands - free of charge! ;D

I loved that controller. Best damn gamepad I ever had. It was a sad day when it finally gave in, and broke, last year.