Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?

Ah, so effectively the standard installation. Alright, thanks!

Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn’t seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?

I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.

I tend to think of it this way, personally: stealing is wrong, but it’s more acceptable to steal when you’re poor than when you’re rich. Both sides are committing attrocities, but one does so to opress while the other to liberate themselves from opression. I will acknowledge that my understanding of the conflict is very limited though, so this might be oversimplified or outright incorrect.

Time to poison their data, I guess.

Wayland have worked flawlessly for me, but I do understand that I have a very simple use case, so ymmv.

I found that, at the cost of a few months of absolute suffering, using Gentoo as my first distro fasttracked my Linux learning.

private companies can’t be trusted

and water is wet.

I find ZFS rollbacks to be easier but setting up ZFS can be a pain (other than in Gentoo and NixOS from my experience), so take your pick

As someone who’ve tried Gentoo on systemd and OpenRC, as well as Void with runit, I don’t see any reason to use OpenRC over systemd. I never noticed any performance difference, and it has far less features. As for runit, if half the boot time for half the features is what you need, then go for it.

I feel like common knowledge of all the shit big tech companies have pulled throughout their history is sufficient justification for giving massive fines.

Wish GDPR had the same kind of teeth.

I use ZFS, not BTRFS, but both have snapshots, and if you’re someone who likes to tinker with their system like me, it lets you do so without worrying that it will break.

Imagine banning books, at all. Sure doesn’t sound horrificly authoritarian to me /s

As it very well should be. Fuck Google.

Copilot doesn’t work on VSCodium from my experience.

And they try to demonise Tor and I2P… At this rate, the dark web would soon be the only place to go.

Huh, I despise ads as well, but are they really that ineffective?

I wonder how much of the money would go to the creators themselves rather than YouTube though. I’d rather use adblock and give money directly through patreon or something. Fuck Google.