stop? 👉👈 🥺 why UwU? me do wrong?

It absolutely is!

You: “Now listen child, and heed my tale of woe…”

Them: “drop it one banana”

Proton is arguably the best option if you’re trying not to rely on Google, and they are slowly building a suite of apps with the goal of directly competing with Google Drive, Calendar, Sheets, etc.

boooo

Is this the Google Keep replacement we’ve all been waiting for?

Looks like it’s $5 on Steam today I’ll check it out thanks for the recommendation https://store.steampowered.com/app/1042490/Call_of_the_Sea/

Yeah the best option is the old PC you already have. Unless you’re transcoding video or into LLMs it will be more than enough.

I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I’m really glad I did that now

Finally, we’ve invented a machine that saves mankind from the drudgery of getting to know other people!

“I want a way to record the young ladies at the gym without Meta knowing about it”

I’ve also used duck.com’s free email masks with great success

Not quite what OP is talking about but useful in most cases

Yeah this is it. I like snaps just fine but I also like Flatpaks and well, everyone else is using Flatpaks.

A VPN actually hides your IP from the webpage.

more often than a paramecium so yeah id say doing pretty good

Hah! I definitely didn’t mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.

It’s great we have so many good options these days.

humans: let’s evolve to be really good at predicting. let’s just evolve the ability to OBSESS over anything but present in the moment

On one hand I think that Linux would benefit from KDE being better than windows and GNOME being better than MacOS and that we shouldn’t get distracted by new shiny toys like Cinnamon and Cosmic.

…and yet on the other hand… they are pretty cool…

Thrift stores often have old laptops for cheap

That’s a great point, I suspect you’re right. Also the Internet wasn’t something you were constantly connected to back then, so spending 45 minutes a day on stumbleupon felt more special.

Granted there’s no good reason we need to be spending as much time as we do online now…