Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
You can use the - (minus) sign,
which excludes pages that contain the word which has the - in front of them.
For example, currently I’m replaying GTA V single player, but when I search for content related to it, I’m often given articles about the online version.
To solve that I search:
GTA V <insert-topic-of-interest> -online
Which excludes all articles containing the word online.
I use SearXNG though,
but afaik this is implemented by most search engines.
Bootkitty?
However,
you can already patch your BIOS to become secure again! :)
All in all, Windows security is a joke compared to Linux’s.
My coping mechanism:
Block/filter out the news!
(Except for positive/uplifting news)
It does wonders for your mental health!
Most news sources are for-profit,
and they did some research,
apparently depressing news draws more attention / clicks, which results into more profit for them, but it isn’t good for your mental health.
Other news sources just drive an hidden agenda, and aim to manipulate you to believe whatever the rich guy that owns the news site wants.
Also, try to have fun while humanity is sliding down in the background!
Whether you’re depressed or acknowledge and then ignore the facts, will have zero impact on the final outcome which will apply to the whole world.
So might as well aim to be happy in the meantime :)
Afaik Qubes runs all software in containers,
which isolates them from each other,
which is great for privacy.
However, OP only asked for Chrome,
and I assume the jump to Qubes might be too big.
To only isolate Chrome,
I’d recommend a Flatpak instead.
Or even better Ungoogled-Chromium.
Windows is not getting better,
CoPilot, Recall, all more unwanted spyware…
UniGetUI is a good way to maintain software on Windows in a Linux fashion through package managers,
however that does not change that the underlying OS is pure spyware.
Regarding AI, I filled it in as following:
Yes, the script uses git svn under the hood,
however it simplifies the process of a fair amount of steps,
to just x1 easy CLI command with an in/output parameter.
Nope, only SVN => Git
SearXNG: https://github.com/searxng/searxng
It enhances and respects privacy,
is open source and self hostable,
and queries multiple configurable search engines (google, bing, brave, duckduckgo, …)
You can find a list of public hosted instances here:
https://searx.space/
However I prefer to slap an instance randomizer on top, so each of my queries goes through another public SearXNG instance, for more privacy, and mostly, to bypass rate-limiting after frequent queries.
For this I use:
That behavior fucking sucks actually
I posted a guide last year on how to do it on Eternity for Lemmy:
Look it up on PCGamingWiki,
they usually list all configuration + compatibility changes that need to be tweaked:
That’s true,
but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D
Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets.
I have an MSI Bravo 17 for work since this month,
quite happy about it so far.
My experience with MSI is best price/value for hardware specs, but with shitty build quality.
However this one feels quite sturdy compared to earlier MSI laptops.
It can get loud under heavy duty,
but it goes quiet again under low workload,
for now at least, my previous MSI laptop sounded like a jet engine whenever it was powered on.
The one you posted seems particularly suited to run Linux upon, since it’s an all AMD machine, and their Linux support is great.
Unsure,
however it’s refreshing to see posts of this clown which actually make me smile instead of concerned.
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Do you hear that?
That’s the sound of DMCAtendo’s lawyers marching out to ruin another fan project.
I’ve been happily using the clock app that comes embedded with LineageOS for years now.
If you don’t want to switch to LineageOS,
then you can still find/install it from ApkMirror:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/lineageos/clock-2/
Oh wow did not know that.
Well, if them spying on you and selling your data was not enough to make you switch to an alternative, then maybe/hopefully lack of search operators will be!