I use Qwant. The question is not whether there is an alternative search engine. It’s why we don’t have huge internet companies. And the author gives his ideas.

Pre-digg immigration OG reddit user here. The enshittification of reddit started when digg users joined en masse and flooded the site with advice animal memes and f7u13 macros.

You said there never had been a culture of computer hardware manufacture in Europe.

Siemens, then Infineon, had a big RAM factory in Germany before the crash in 2008.

Isn’t goodreads owned by Amazon?

I stopped when they removed the “download and transfer via USB” option. Before that I bought books, downloaded a copy and removed the DRM.

Now I just download books without DRM for free.

Or cassette

I listen to punk music recorded on crappy gear, so I prefer not to hear it hi-fi.

I bought a media center pc around 2000 and installed Ubuntu. The only thing that didn’t work out of the box was sound through HDMI. Figured it out the same day.

RIP the old Opera before they went Chromium.

I’m a physicist in Norway. Outside the few university jobs, you can either work for the oil industry, which kills the planet, or defense, which kill people. I like the planet.

They mean the one where President Bush and his administration used propaganda to create support for an invasion that caused death, destruction and massive gains for the military industry.

Have never used Chrome. Firefox is very good. I had 5-6 years when I preferred Opera, but since 2014, I’ve been using Firefox exclusively.

The only effect this will have on me is that I’m going to stop buying books from Amazon.

Mint was super easy. I just had to scratch my head for two days trying to figure out why the keyboard didn’t work after coming out of suspend. Had something to do with it being in a USB 3.0 port. Once I plugged it into a 2.0-port it worked.