The killswitch isn’t safe for bittorrent on your own PC as they have a tendency to expose your IP briefly when the connection drops before it kicks in. Binding your torrent client to your VPN network is 100% reliable though so no need for a seedbox.

Yep, “AI” is a very fancy database query masquerading as science fiction.

I use Duolingo every day, seems pretty effective to me.

I’m not sure how it’s a privacy nightmare. I gave them my email address for spam and a false name.

To avoid the ads, I use it via browser (firefox with ublock origin) on my phone instead of on the app.

OK, India still has the highest rate of Veganism in the world.

highest rate of veganism in history

India says hello

Lmao, no it won’t.

Fair enough, I totally agree about Ubuntu, although Mint doesn’t have most of the bad Ubuntu stuff. What it does benefit from is Ubuntu’s superior hardware support, PPAs (most important for up-to-date Mesa) and GUI stuff like Driver Manager/Update Manager. For a beginner or casual user there’s no contest.

Yes, I know Mint is downstream of Ubuntu, that’s how I know it doesn’t include Snaps. What exactly other “nonsense” is there or was your statement just a general LMDE puritan hand-wave?

Which Ubuntu stuff does Mint Cinnamon have? I thought the point of Mint was that they removed a bunch of that stuff like Snaps.

I think Koreader has built in progress sync.

https://fmhy.net/ all you need right here!

The new CEO isn’t talking about the AI that’s already in Firefox. He’s talking about more AI with greater integration.

“Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Firefox will remain our anchor. It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions.”

How fucking stupid are these chucklefucks?

Yes

Meanwhile, also in Texas, the police will trawl cameras nationwide to track you if you get an abortion. I guess it’s OK as long as it’s their surveillance network.

Private trackers are the WoW raiding guilds of piracy xD

It was a couple of years ago. Continuing enshittification of Windows pissed me off enough to look into it (10/11 restricting of options, CoPilot, various bloat etc).

2 years later, i’m running Mint on my laptop, Arch on my desktop, a server with OpenMediaVault and a miniPC with Batocera. My computer life has never been better!

To be fair, most people who use Windows are ignorant of any of this stuff so while I guess they are technically part of the problem (debatably), it’s not knowingly. With that in mind it seems unwise to tar them all with the same brush and set them up as the enemy if we hope to convince any of them to abandon it.

Damn, didn’t know my jaw could hit the floor for 43mins straight.

Just my usual Ski Jumping vods, maybe some anime. Always look forward to the Four Hills tournament.

Have loads of game to play already, will start the Metro series soon.

I found under ‘Projects’ on the website it’s from March 2005 which makes sense given the mention of Kazaa in the introduction.