If you still like the workflow of VS Code and just want it without the Microsoft Ai and spyware crap, Then you got Vscodium.

It’s basically the open-source code of VS Code compiled without the invasive M$ stuff.

I’ve been wanting to abandon ship for years, but sadly convincing the average gamer is another story.

Which is the main reason most of us are stuck using it if we want to talk to friends.

It’s not really an issue for the end user. But it’s basically made for companies to take advantage of free hobbyist developers without needing to give anything back in return.

So if you’re the kind of person who runs to foss software to get away from corporate tech bull, having a license that benefits companies more than users just kinda feels scummy.

Betterfox is less hardcore about privacy than Arkenfox, It’s more a balance of privacy and convenience.

Arkenfox is the privacy above all else approach which means some more invasive sites can break.

Both are good but Betterfox is easier to deal with for most users.

My ex had one of them RGB everything rainbow gamer PCs.

Windows would auto boot to update in the middle of the night and turn the whole apartment into a rave…

The only time I did was WAY back during the launch of Firefox Quantum. It was a huge back-end change pushed overnight to the main branch, breaking most extensions including one I similar couldn’t live without at the time. I even switched to PaleMoon for a while until everything sorted itself out.

Been using LibreWolf for almost 2 years now which does a good job at gutting all the parts of Firefox updates I don’t want.

I got both resistFingerprinting options turned on and Lemm.ee and the Mlmym front-end both work fine for me.

Lately it’s been sifting through IMDB collections to find movies to watch.

That or I check the groups I’m in to see what I’m late to the party on now.

Welcome to the Club!

I had a similar issue around 2 years ago now on POP where my bootloader didn’t even show up in the bios anymore.

If you still have the a USB with the live boot of POP you can use it to recover your files n stuff.

https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-recovery

Can someone correct me here.

If I have i2P enabled on my qBittorent client and I start seeding a torrent downloaded from a non-i2P connection.

Does my seed of it allow others to download that torrent through i2P?

qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.

Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.

I still got a torrent from 2005 seeding, with 2 other people.

There’s been a lot of work on different recompilation tools lately. XenomRecomp and N64Recomp being two big ones.

Obviously it still takes a lot of work to go from a re-compiled console rom to a fully working PC port. But some fans are just crazy dedicated like that.

Yup I’ve been using Firefox-UI-Fix for a long time now.

Used it back on Firefox and it worked fine when I switched to Librewolf.

I was surprised how many co-workers my age and younger (GenZ) don’t even own a laptop let alone a desktop.

I know it was becoming more niche, but didn’t expect it to happen that fast…

As much of a Linux fanboy as I am, I just kinda hate platform exclusives in general when it comes to gaming.

Something fun could be Steam items you can only gain through playing the game on Linux, Like the promotional in-game items you got for playing TF2 on the launch of the Mac and Linux versions.

Waterfox is the safe bet, it’s basically just regular Firefox repacked with better defaults and telemetry turned off, but it isn’t harden or has add-ons included.

LibreWolf is what I switched to over a year ago, The team behind it have been pretty thorough in scraping out spyware and it comes pre-hardened out the box (but that can break more invasive websites).

A VPN is a must have for browsing the internet in the UK these days, our laws and only getting more Orwellian by the day.

By all means do what you must to avoid handing over data to our police-state government.

Plugins will only change it on your end and Google won’t care since they still make money farming your data when you use their services.

Best to just try get used to OSM and other Google service alternatives.

I also checked and DuckDuckGo’s Map also changed to “Gulf of America” might be time to give SearXNG another try.

Leave a text file along with your music including a donation link and thanking people for listening.

I’ve heard more than a handful of artists getting some money that way after putting their own albums up on torrent/file-share sites.