your username reveals a lot about you, BTW

it’s nothing for a GNU/Linux user

just like god intended. not as beautiful as templeos though

ikr! ancient desktop environment on unstable release

it(kde v1) was compiled along with qt v1.

hey Dan, why don’t you post blogs now?

sure, just make sure to add “blazingly fast” in the description and append “-rs” to the name

I heavily use classes while working on back end, and when I’m making a really self-contained logic, such as a logger or an image manipulation service.
but since most frontend stuff heavily leans on functional side, I go with it

that’s a nice way to look at it. thanks!

state management crying in the corner

I oscillate between using more functional paradigms and more object-oriented ones. is that normal?
I use a linter BTW(TypeScript) if that is a useful info.

the 3.5mm rounded hole where you can insert your wired earphones, wired headphones, or stereo speakers

i’m still angry about their initiatives on delicate phone bodies and non-removable batteries.

tailsOS. made me love GNOME, even though I use i3 now.

because they don’t serve you targeted ads. duckduckgo’s(and startpage’s) business model is keyword-based ads, for which they are getting plenty of revenue.
brave has other paid offerings like search without ads(premium), brave VPN, their own shitcoin(BAT) and so on.

as for the search results, I’m a software developer. most of the time I know what I am searching for, and I don’t want my search engine to go on overdrive and interpret it as something else. for me, duckduckgo is perfect. google, on the other hand, is worse for me for this and other reasons.
and there shouldn’t be much difference between duckduckgo and bing(sans account) since duckduckgo sources the results from bing.

I don’t know when did you last try duckduckgo, but I’ve been using it since 2015 and I’ve rarely been disappointed. in case i am missing on something, it’s just a !sp away(duckduckgo bangs).

you don’t have to go all in at once, mate. you can start by getting most important things in your control: your browser and search engine.
if you like the interface of Google chrome and can’t part away with it: use brave. else highly recommended to use Firefox.
if you just like Google search results, use startpage, else use duckduckgo or brave search.

these two things alone would make a meaningful difference.

then for neutering most of third party tracking: use a private DNS(I’d suggest nextdns). it’s just a "add a URL and forget about it’. it’ll stop the tracking significantly.

then you can continue by replacing other inconsequential stuff like Google notes(use Joplin), Google assistant(don’t use any of this “smart” crap), Google fit(just exercise regularly. you don’t need to micromanage it).

then next step would be to start making some tough decisions: replace the keylogger that is Google keyboard with it’s open source equivalent heliboard.

then eventually you can go hardcore and use Facebook and other crap on browser only.

so, all in all, even if you do only the first two(or just first) step, you’re already 50% there.

let me know in case you got any questions. and happy journey.

some people naturally sweat a lot.

what’s up, my G?

to those wondering: https://youtu.be/XxbJw8PrIkc

is this your car?