I like where you’re going with this!

yeah, well-intentioned things tend to go sour when exposed to the glow of anonymity on the internet. Starts off innocent, and goes downhill fast.

The creator, Sean, stating that he started this app as a reaction to the online dating scene his mother experienced, seems fine: an anti-catfishing app would be great.

To give the devil their due, the data they collect might also be valuable as data on how women discuss men online, which at a cursory glance seems to favor far more hyperbole than I see in everyday life.

When I say things like, “Use linux, the attack surface is much smaller”, people say, “well, that won’t last forever”, to which I say, “if a trillion dollar company can drop the ball like this, I’m taking the route less travelled because society doesn’t change quickly, Microsoft isn’t going anywhere in my forseeable future”

glad more people are using Arch-based distros! I finally installed arch (btw) without the archinstall script, and I must say, the more people that can potentially feel the sense of accomplishment that I felt when I got my display manager and window manager set up the way I wanted, the better!

I definitely didn’t learn about it from the canada.ca website, they don’t even mention the linux version! I likely heard about on reddit, or from a desperate web search.

good on you, NVIDIA drivers are very decent these days, on wayland in particular. Glad to see someone rocking an Xeon chip, they are great chips.

And I just learned that CachyOS is based on Arch! I just began dual booting fedora (nobara) with arch, but went with river as the wayland compositor, because I heard good things. KDE is a great DE, keep learning linux, it’s a lot of fun!

pretty cool, mangohud is great, but having parity with features already available on windows is always a plus!

Only thing I used matching your needs was an RSS feed coming from a private tracker I’m on. I’m sure there are rss feeds for public trackers too. I self-hosted an rss reader and aggregator, and I could specify which torrent categories I would get notified about.

I paid for myTaxExpress as well, and it worked well for my family. I used to use a vm and used StudioTax as well, but having an entire VM and OS installed for one program used once a year was kind of suboptimal to me, so once I found myTaxExpress I was so relieved, had no idea it existed either! Their customer support is also good, solved an issue with my license pretty smoothly.

Agreed. I don’t know many women who don’t cry for greater safety on the road (men share this logic, but I do find the bias of safety falls to a greater amount of women), and buy an SUV just to keep up with the trend of larger vehicles on the road so they don’t get demolished in an accident.

I do like this permitting system idea, maybe somewhere where you have to apply to be approved for the class of vehicle like suv, pickup truck, sedan, etc. . . Like maybe a need to justify why the extra energy and size is needed, but now we are in a situation where millions of vehicles already are on the road, so maybe a tax or new requirement would have to come into effect.

that’s awesome, non-profit organizations will treat tenants with far more respect than corporate landlords who are only focused on maximizing profit!

I had issues with it in the past, where certain search engines would go down, so often that it was more of a hassle that just using duckduckgo. I remember bing and duckduckgo being engines with the most uptime for me, so I didn’t see the point in using it at the time. Which instances work well for you?

this is awesome! I’ll have to test this out because gaming with the daughter has been limited to games that support it natively. I wonder if this can work with emulated games too?

I use duck duck go mainly, but more and more I’m using yandex. I heard about kagi, the privacy-focused but paid alternative, and what it really comes down to is how much do you want to trust others with your data?

This article made no mention of browser extensions like ublock or privacy badger, the latter being a track-blocker exclusively.

everything you say is true.

But thinking that cities will redesign their streets without public pressure? I doubt it.

comparison is the thief of joy

Just a hunch, since technological advancements seem to hit the public realm much faster in places like China, in the cities especially. I don’t know what the laws are like there, but I’ve heard rumors that there is less government regulations for technologies that can benefit the general public, like drones and automated metros. Oh yeah, and how could I forget about the robots they show off at conventions, to take the place of receptionists and other customer-facing positions.

Minecraft is the most popular best selling game of all time, and the single-player mode is still being updated. Granted, many people play on multiplayer servers, but still.

At the very least, you can still pirate it and play cracked multiplayer with friends.

I made the mistake of buying the game year ago, and bought a bunch of DLC at 50% or greater sales, and now the sunken cost fallacy has taken hold on me, and I still want to buy more . . . . (at least I’m broke so I can’t right now hehehaha)

Overcooked, Liars Bar, Ready or Not, Schedule 1, Elden Ring, Jackbox, etc . . . . . All work great as multiplayer titles on linux. There’s a great trove of fun games that don’t require kernel level anticheat because the the community of players isn’t as toxic.