Many thanks OP for starting this thread and also big thank you to all suggesting Mull and Mulch. I was not aware of those apps and will try out both of them.

Here are some links to start from:

• DivestOS website with information about their apps: https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps
• Mull directly from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
• Mulch only from DivestOS F-Droid Repo: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.mulch/ - must enable repo first!

I really liked the Bromite browser on my mobiles, but unfortunately it did not get (security) updates for a longer time. From the many discussions in the Issue tracker asking about status of the project, I could not get a clear clue about the situation, but fact is that the last Bromite release is from Dec 2022.

From here Bromite is Dead, Use Cromite Instead I learned about and tried to switch to Cromite, but on my 32-bit Android devices it is still very unstable.

Definitely dislike MS, generations of my workstations have small, yellow “Microsoft Free Workstation” stickers on their monitors, but VSCodium (in my case) is not really bad.

Also I really like the Xbox360 console and (as a hacker and maker) still love the first Kinnect. The Kinnect is an excellent piece of sensor-hardware, was rather cheap when purchased in used condition and it works very well with Linux.

The German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.

please see this comment above

All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
Had to select “Other”, but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

MetaGer is a German meta search engine (utilizing several search engines in the back). UI and results are of course available in many languages.

https://metager.org | https://metager.de

From their About page:

What makes MetaGer special?

MetaGer is different from other search engines. This is reflected not only in our public good orientation and focus on privacy, but also through some unique features:

• Possibility of creating a personal blacklist
• Function of the search in the search
• Advertising-free search possible
• Integration of search engine projects like YaCy
• The only German search engine that combines results from several large web indexes
• And much more…

What We Stand For

Guaranteed Privacy

Data protection and privacy are important to us. That’s why we don’t track or store personal data and offer several services to protect your privacy, for example our anonymizing proxy (“Open Anonymously” feature).

Non-Profit Association

MetaGer is a project of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, Association for Free Access to Knowledge. SUMA-EV is primarily committed to promoting media literacy.

Diverse and Free

MetaGer produces diverse results because it is a metasearch engine. We have explained exactly what this means in our transparency statement. By publishing our source code, we show that free access to knowledge is important to us. Our source code is free and open source.

100% Renewable Energy

Sustainability and resource consumption is also a big issue for us. Therefore we pay attention to the energy consumption of our services and only use electricity from renewable energy sources.

If you are unhappy with suggested XSane, but only want an OSS solution, I do not know a good alternative.

Same for me with uBlock Origin, until I have updated to version 1.51.0

In my FF’s about:config there is a setting called intl.regional_prefs.use_os_locales, defaulted to false. Maybe this can be used?

Thank you good bot, please take my social media profile.

:D sorry, of course the coal guy, not the one with the fancy hairstyle.

Let the religious shell wars begin … again

Only right answer is of course TCSH. Not much documentation and support, ancient but still receives new bugs in 2021 (on Debian), but attackers hate it! (I love it)

My real suggestion is to learn zsh and fish (and bash). Try using them for all your purposes and in the end you will automatically find the one (or more of them) that suits you best and that you like most for your daily tasks.

They (Mr. Oil, Mr. Coil and Mrs. Nuke) explained to him that they are loosing $87 from your electric bill what will effect their profits and donations to him.

I prefer AppImages on my Debian desktops as they normally simply work out of the box (download, start) and I had (many years ago) trouble with snap and flatpak.

Hi @Chrishering33@lemmy.world , please try the following (found on the Startpage support page):

Add the following information:

• Search engine name: Startpage
• Search string to use: https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=%s

But I do not know what the /sp/ part is about (maybe “sp” for “StartPage”?) and how the German /de/, that you seem to need, can be integrated.

Came here to mention “Pi”, too.

Thanks for clarifying. Unfortunately I do not know a FOSS alternative for this purpose.

Is google pay similar to PayPal?

For micro-transactions I stumbled over the GNU Taler project a while ago.

Wikipedia article

Project page

Last time I checked it was not production ready, but maybe it is worth a look?

Ahh, I returned to Reddit for the vote just to learn that vote is over :(. If you are interest in the vote’s result and do not want to visit Reddit, feel free to open the spoiler