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Lots of people like Vivaldi for the many reasons stated in the comments. I personally feel its bloated, cluttered UI and it runs heavier on my system (compared to Helium and Ungoogled Chromium, which are both excellent browsers).

However, I daily drive Mullvad and Librewolf, with Zen for web presentations. I much rather these hardened Firefox browsers than Chromium based ones.

Curious: What made you do it for a decade if it wasn’t working so well for you.

Not being snarky here. Just would like to understand what kept you on.

Self-host SearXNG on your laptop/PC. Your only regret is that you’d wish you’d done this sooner. Both SearXNG and Docker have helpful setup pages that walk you through the process. https://docs.searxng.org/

Oh Jeez. Last thing I want to do is to tell anybody to delete their work. Thats not my intent. I came to the photo to be reminded of the place, so I am eternally grateful for the post and photo. Perhaps, repost with the licence plate obscured?

in the attempt to directly answer your question, all I can possibly say is that someone who is privacy conscious would not appreciate their car being identified. I would feel the same.

Again, I apologise if I’m bursting your bubble here. Its not at all my intent.

License plates and other identifiable should be permanently obscured before uploading to preserve anonymity.

Use a retired phone with no apps other than your music and the players (New Pipe, Archive Tune, etc) you want. Give your old phones a 2nd life without having to purchase another thing. Connect via WiFi and have a ball.

RATM - RATM

I find not being on social media, limiting my exposure to the news and staying outdoors (planting, working with nature and people, immersing myself with live art like live music or a play) makes the difference.

Things start looking bleak when most of my activity and time is the screen.

There is also something to be said about overwhelming the visual stimulus and and the subsequent degredation of mental health.

That would be the first thing I would do.

However, the killer ingredient is to learn how to sit alone -no book, no activity. To just sit and learn how to be. You will see the benefits over prolonged disciplined practice.

I find it much easier to do the 2nd thing once the 1st thing is in order.

Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?

“The fundamental architecture of Linux prohibits age verification completely”…until the next law erodes that privilege altogether.

I hope you are right. And for all our sakes, I really hope I am wrong.

Thanks for the explanation. What you have described is not different to the manner in which I understand the situation as well.

My concern is that (despite your good intentions) your previous comment may have the unintended effect of making light of the situation we are all in.

The ‘field’ we have the privilege to ignore now id a mandatory requirement for a passport and iris scan tomorrow.

My first thought is to not sit still and accept the new law - rather, to empower everybody here to write to their legislators to block or reverse these gross violations of privacy. May Linux developers have already expressed willful non-compliance to the law. Show we not get behind these developers and organisations (like the EFF) and demand a repeal?

I however apologise if I have misunderstood your intent. But one thing is for sure, if we do not put up a fight at present, then the future is already lost.

…until it becomes a requirement to be filled.

If that is the case, explain why is it being implemented in the heat of mass age verification? What is the motive?

Thanks. This is what I concluded from my reading too. Just needed to jump an extra hoop or two to allocate for btrfs which I didnt know about but going back and redoing the zrsm swap was not difficult.

Ha. Learnt something today. Thank you for the share. You are kind.

note: the term “virtual memory” I used in my response above refers to swap memory. I was having trouble recalling.

In the beginning it was that I wanted to try Gnome and Fedora. I was new to Linux then and experimenting was exciting.

But I guess the important point here (for me at least) is why I stayed on. Fedora

I realised the system packages for LibreOffice and some other apps were newer on Fedora.

Being able to run this laptop mostly on fairly current system packages meant more compatibility (eg. formatting cnsistency on LibreOffice) and not incurring resource overheads from running the same software on Flatpaks. I’ve not scientifically tested this but it does “feel” a lot snappier running system packaged apps.

I made the decision to move to Sway when Fedora 43 came out and that freed even more resources from not having to run Gnome.

Gnome was a good introduction to a keyboard driven workflow and moving to Sway was a lot easier because if my experience navigating via the keyboard on Gnome.

None of this was premeditated. Its just how things turned out for me. And with Linux, I’d probably optimise more as I go along.

My system just grew to adapt to my needs, preferences and limitations every step of the way. And I think that journey will continue to adapt as I go.

Will I recommend LinixMint to anyone? 100%!!! I cannot find any fault with it. Its super reliable, beautiful UI, decent customisations, etc. I’ve set up LMDE (the Debian variant of LinuxMint) for a few Windows-refugee friends of mine and they’ve been having a great time.

Will I go back to Mint? If I could run Sway on it, then perhaps. But I dont have a need to at this moment.

My daily driver is a 2014 i5 machine with 4GB RAM, running Fedora 43 Sway (riced but no animations).

It can simultaneously run Emacs, Librewolf 6-8 tabs (research), Helium 2-3 tabs (for email, calendar & cloud drive) and 1-2 desktop chat apps. If I flick on Freetube at this point, it’ll freeze up.

I’ve got a pretty minimalist approach to work so I don’t have too many things running most of the time. I use mostly system packages and Flatpaks sparingly. I can keep running this thing as my daily driver for a few more years.

Also stick a 27" display and a pair of 5" powered studio speakers into it in the evenings to enjoy some movie streaming.

ps: I’ve recently configured another 12GB of virtual memory (?) on the SSD to support the 4GB RAM on the machine and that has significantly helped with multitasking.

ps2: Sharing the above to encourage to try Linux out. I came to this with zero knowledge amd experience. Really amazing what’s possible.

ps3: May be also good to mention that if first ran Linux Mint (with no optimisations or modifications) on this machine and only moved to Fedora a year later. Both distros worked flawlessly. If anybody is keen to know why I moved from Linux Mint to Fedora, please ask and I will share my experience.

Good call with Angel Dust. King For a Day, Fool For A Lifetime completes the syllabus.

Miles Davis:

• Kind of Blue
• In a Silent Way
• Bitches Brew
• Tutu

Cornerstone records from which everything from the Headhunters, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and the great exploration of jazz, psychedelic, rock and everything else in between.

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And the link written this way works better methinks. https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was