lol. i only tried 9front like once but it was too difficult!

i’ve quadbooted a lot before (linux/freebsd/osx/windows), it works pretty well these days with uefi. was pretty hard to handle with legacy bios though

i think i remember hearing the dbus machine-id being read by google chrome on linux. it could be used for privacy violation with proprietary software, though i personally consider linux machines with chrome or equivalent software installed compromised.

this is not a slow machine at all, but you probably want to check power usage and electricity prices in your area to see if it’s much cheaper to get a new machine

afaik you can sync data from a samsung smartwatch and let it analyze stuff

last i checked it was very difficult to run your own instance (including voice chats)

google killed the ability to search in js-disabled browsers like those

you’ll get a very unique fingerprint of a firefox-ish browser, it wouldn’t look like chromium

bad advice. they can know by fingerprint it’s not actually chrome on windows. this just makes the fingerprint more unique/suspicious and increases the chance of getting blocked by clownflare

damn, i hope you’re feeling better now…

might wanna have pcapdroid running on your phone to see which app its from

i just try to sleep, though that’s often impossible if theres work to do

bruh. AOSP literally stands for Android Open Source Project

indeed, it did feel 100% ai slop at first glance

recently saw this article here, i’m not sure if ecosia is a good solution now. their results seem mostly identical to ddg/bing too though it’s occasionally better than them for some reason

qwant is good, but they geoblock certain countries including mine since 2023 or so. having to use proxy/vpn for just searching really sucks

not a proxy, it directly uses google cse on client side so it’s no better than directly using google

not really fast, but they are indeed quite unhealthy as typical fast foods (like burgers) imo

yeah, i search with ‘before 2023’ to filter AI slop often

google (and few other engines) keep giving me errors, and search results mostly empty due to timeouts (or even with no error, there’s just only few results that are completely unrelated to the query)

ddg gets results from bing, startpage is the one that gets results from google