sovietknuckles

It's something to do with lib relatives during their a few days from now

Firefox Beta is for anyone who wants to use a version 1 month ahead of the latest stable Firefox version, and AFAIK it doesn't have more telemetry than stable Firefox versions.

Regardless, you can disable telemetry and studies by setting some preferences in about:config (or a user.js file):

The citizens have to instead rely on a private company running at a loss which is why they can't afford a higher Twitter tier?

People used to see disaster prevention-related ads next to those tweets before those advertisers dropped Twitter, right? For big companies like Uber or Twitter (before Elon bought it), "running at a loss" was mainly an accounting trick, I thought

There is a Chromium download, but it looks like it's of an unstable version and exists for testing purposes.

Most Linux users who use Chromium use a stable, tagged version (see Arch Linux, Ubuntu, etc.).

"Chromium" itself is just the name of the open source project (controlled and developed by Google of course) that Google Chrome is I guess a "branded" version of.

There are some differences between Chrome and Chromium besides just branding. For example, most Chromium builds will use open audio and video codecs instead of proprietary ones like H.264. Chromium also does not report crashes, and they claim it never reports user metrics (though Chromium does still send a ton of data to Google from Chromium. For example, "Improve search suggestions" is enabled by default, "Make searches and browsing better" can be enabled optionally, and any "smart"/predictive/adaptive features send data to Google).

From the Chromium source tree, see: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/6e4b151958ca/docs/chromium_browser_vs_google_chrome.md

Do you run a VPN? Turn that off and try again.

Hexbear does not block VPNs. But if he's getting DNS-related timeouts and DNS is not configured correctly, that could maybe help

VSCodium is a variant with Microsoft stuff pulled out, akin to how Chromium is a variant of Chrome with (most) Google stuff pulled out.

A variant with even more Google stuff pulled out is Ungoogled Chromum , though it still has a Chrome user agent and therefore still helps Google with browser market share metrics. The only major browser that you don't help Google by using is Firefox.

Is that the one without airbags?

Edit: It has airbags

The problem with covid is that its effects are delayed: My relatives don't understand that asymptomatic spread means that they're contagious before they have symptoms, don't understand that even if their covid feels "very mild", they can still get long covid, etc. People don't correlate covid's effects with covid itself because it's not on the timeline they expect for a respiratory virus.

I tried to get DALL-E to make Soviet Knuckles from the meme, but one of the pictures it generated was Knuckles with Lenin's face so I went with that

Actual punishment (including enforcement) for not masking or using a bogus mask, that's all it would take

What Linux distro do you use? What do you use it for?

Arch Linux, it's the most maintainable way to run the last versions of the software on my machine, which is useful to me as a developer.

What is your experience with it?

Breakage is rare. When it does happen, though, I can easily unbreak it by downgrading whichever single package lead to the breakage and its dependencies, and adding them to a IgnorePkg directive in my /etc/pacman.conf.

Occasionally, I need to watch out for configuration files installed as .pacnew and upgrade my existing configuration to the new version (usually, it's only comments that have changed between the current conf version and the .pacnew one, so nothing to do).

Besides that, it works pretty much flawlessly. Arch Linux doesn't patronize you with a "Don't worry about that, we'll handle it for you" attitude like Ubuntu, Fedora, or macOS. And there is no lower-effort way than Arch Linux to run the latest version of all software you have installed.

Why did you switch to Linux?

As a developer, I needed a *nix environment, but my workplace only gave me Windows. Cygwin was a pain to configure, required converting between Windows paths and Cygwin paths every step of the way in order to interoperate with my Windows environment (this was before WSL), and Windows-style line endings made my terminal look weird with some frequency.

I didn't start with Arch right away, I started with Antergos (a now discontinued Arch installer), which set things up initially and let me work with it from there. Importantly, it didn't involve a completely separate package manager like Manjaro. If you want to use Arch, don't start with Manjaro, because if you do, you will probably stay on Manjaro. A list of Arch-based distros is here, if you want to take this approach (Warning: Some people use an Arch installer, which is initially easy, accidentally break everything on an upgrade, and are unable to get it working again, so only do this if you're committed to fixing your own problems).