I’m not really against AI (specifically text-based GenAI), but AI does change the reality of using the internet. I need to be able to promote trustworthy domains in my search results and accumulate such a list over years.

Brave search technically has such a feature, but firstly the owner is a homophobe, and secondly the feature isn’t really as power-user oriented as I’d like.

They’re a luddite, if the site wasn’t down then I’d doubt their credentials.

Get a separate device for work. You shouldn’t be working on your personal computer anyway.

I really need to switch to Kagi, but it’s American so I don’t want to give them money.

I’ve changed DE multiple times, most of them are fine. KDE is a bit obtuse but it’s ultimately what I settled on because I want good built-in themes. If KDE didn’t exist I’d go with Xfce, followed by LXQt (never tried LXQt though).

In terms of how important a DE is, I think picking the right distro is more important. This basically means staying away from anything Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based because in my experience those are the least stable.

That’s the best part. You’d only get those pointless features if you paid money. If you didn’t you’d get the Pale Moon browser (or something like it).

If only you had a copy on your local drive, just in case any of that happened.

Real shame about that fire though.

Oh no, your house just burnt down. Now all your data is gone.

By “free browsers” I didn’t mean “free versions”. I’m thinking more along the lines of Pale Moon or Konqueror (in it’s early days), third-party FOSS browsers with limited features.

I think web browsers would make sense as a subscription. The battle to keep them secure is intense and always ongoing. I think Firefox and Chrome should be subscriptions, while free browsers should have a drastically reduced feature set.

That lasted for 25 minutes before someone else replied saying it should avoid serving Valve’s interests.

https://lemmy.ml/post/42362847/23625426

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant

Qwant uses Google or Bing as a backend.

I’m explaining the cultural difference, not judging one as better or worse. America is more individualist and China is more collectivist.

There would be more violence. These thugs in riot gear want an excuse to slaughter people en-mass.

In America the justice system leans strongly in favour of the defence (unless you’re poor, but we’ll put that aside for now). In China and east Asia more generally the justice system leans towards maintaining social harmony even if it means a higher risk of convicting the wrong person.

You have to admit that relative to America which leans more towards individual rights, China leans more towards collective rights.

If you explain yourself, people take that as meaning it’s up for debate. Better to say “I like it that way”.

I considered swapping to a flip-phone but stopped because I need to be able to access my banking app when near ATM’s. My card only ever has the bare minimum amount of money on it so that theft isn’t a concern.

China is a country that doesn’t care about the individual. If it’s in their interest to give your information to the Americans they will.

The best solution is really GrapheneOS.

Generally you can use use the GUI with things like Nobara Linux.

But most software install instructions are all “copy and paste these commands”.