That actually makes sense, thank you

How dare the government raise money to fund useless things, like infrastructure, education or social services, right?

Why are you against a sales tax?

I’d probably recommend something with GrapheneOS as it’s pretty easy to install and use. I personally use it as well and never had any issues with it. You might want to look if your Banking apps work, but other than that, you can pretty much install most major apps through Aurora (like WhatsApp, Signal etc.)

If you want to go fully open, you could also try buying a Fairphone 4 and installing PostmarketOS on it, as I see PostmarketOS as the long-term ideal future OS for phones, because it frees us from the shackles of phone update cycles and gives the user full control over their OS (including changing the desktop environment).

But if you want to use PostmarketOS you have to be willing to tinker and not everything will work perfectly. Especially the camera will not be perfectly supported, even on the well supported Fairphone 4, your pictures will look worse than the ones you could take on Android, because there aren’t good drivers and post processing yet. But it can be really cool if you are an enthusiast.

What new features is Mint getting?

Damm, I learned a lot about Linux through this meme

Also, if you didn’t want to know the answer, then why did you even ask?

How? I actually do the stuff I say, which would defeat my cliche of a communist online.

If you mean by that, that I am a communist and spend some of my time online, then you are correct.

It’s not about not doing something, it’s more about learning to do something.

I would personally recommend you start educating yourself about anticapitalism / anarchism and communism. Here is a good video to give you an overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTzjaXskUU.
After that, maybe start with joining some leftist protests in your area or joining a local leftist group. Then talk to the people there and learn how to do even more.

It’s hard, but it shure as hell is better than just giving up.

Nope, if people stopped buying lootboxes, they would just find something else.

The problem is not peoples behaviour, it is the fundamental incentive structures, that incentivize exploiting your customers.

If we really want to fix this problem, we need to abolish capitalism.

You could also consider donating it to the projects you are hosting. Because developing that software still takes a lot of labour and these devs really need it

Why does that need to be a gendered thing? Doesn’t that apply to all people?

I have a used ThinkPad T460, I found a really nice deal for on eBay (90€).

It serverves me pretty well I mostly watch videos on it (works pretty well up to 1080p on Youtube), but it’s fine for most things, web browsing, editing documents and even coding.

I used it during a game jam with my friends, we were making a 2d game in Godot and it was good enough for that. I am running Linux Mint on it, it is a miracle what Linux can do for your old machines.

Other than that, old surface pros are pretty good nowadays and the 5th/ 6th generation can be found for 150€ if you are lucky. They also have excellent Linux support if you get the right kernel patches .

But I would probably recommend you try out Linux on your existing Laptop and see how it works for you. M2 support is pretty good nowadays for Asahi Linux. Maybe get an external drive for that money.

I think both statements are true at the same time

I don’t think it’s an insult to be honest

This seems a bit sketchy to me. How am I getting paid for participating when it’s completely free?

That was an awesome read, thank you!

Oh, that worked, thank you!

Maybe you could implement the search suggestions URL into the OpenSearch (because at least when I added it via right click add search engine, it only added the search URL), but that could be an error on my part.

Also, I am just curious, where do you get the search suggestions from? Do you just query one of the engines?

I’ve installed this on my home server and I must say, I am quite impressed!

It just feels so much snappier than SearXNG, I think the loading “animation” helps with that a lot. I also love the whole plugin system, there is already a lot available, maybe in the future, if I have a good idea, I will make one myself.
I was a bit skeptical about the AI thing at first, but at least you are transparent about it and your stance seems to be reasonable.

If you want some suggestions on what to work on in the future, it would be cool, if there was a search suggestion api URL, I could add to Firefox to have search suggestions in my address bar. Also maybe bangs to only search with a certain engine, like in SearXNG.

Thank you for all the work you already put into this, looking forward to future updates!

They are talking about the file explorer Dolphin, which is available on Linux and Windows.

But it is a core app for the KDE desktop environment, so it is primarily optimized for Linux.