If you’re very bothered by the ads, instead of an adblocker you can try out an Ad-blocking DNS. Personally, I use noads.libredns.gr

This will allow them to see all your data though, so I recommend using this method with a reputable VPN.

Thank you so much for the detailed answer 🙏

Basic, but Ubuntu. It’s got snaps which are slow and generally suck, plus Canonical

Interesting, thank you for sharing. I’ll have to give it a go next time!

For anything lower-spec (like, <4Gb of RAM), Ubuntu absolutely CHUGS because of Snaps. Flatpak has no such issue.

Ironically, Lubuntu (a lightweight Ubuntu fork) worked the best for me while I was using it. No slowness, but I installed pretty much everything using Apt (didn’t know about Flatpak back then).

I ended up having it lock up and freeze on the sign-in page though, so I moved on to the slightly heavier Linux Mint.

I think this is the perfect post to bring up XWayland.

That being said, I haven’t used it yet (so I can’t comment on whether it works flawlessly)! Can anyone elaborate on their experiences with it? I’m curious on it and don’t have my hands on a Linux machine at the moment

I can also back that up! KDE feels way faster than Gnome (and especially Cinnamon) on older computers

Ditto on a Pixel 6 Pro. There were a ton of people with issues when this thing came out, but I was lucky enough to dodge all the issues.

As a long-time Tenchu fan, I feel this was about Sekiro to be honest. It started life as Tenchu 5, then got turned mid-development into Sekiro. I just wish it had a bigger emphasis on stealth, rather than just swordfighting…

Do Revanced or Piped allow you to easily cast now? That was my main issue with them a while ago (I’m on a Pixel 6 Pro, maybe it was my phone?)

This is cool, but there appears to be no issues tab in GitHub which is a bit of a red flag.

My one big gripe with Mastadon is that images take absolutely forever to load if they have even a marginal amount of pixels. I scroll art often and I’m left waiting for greater than a minute for these things to load (and I’m on a very, very fast connection).

I learned Gimp alongside Photoshop ~10 years ago and it’s my preferred image editor. It does have some silliness sometimes, but overall I adore it.

One of the best things they ever did was making it one-window by default.

I was, indeed, a frustrated developer. Struck at the worst possible time, too

There was definitely a bottom banner but it was quite unobtrusive

I’d use Ecosia still if it weren’t for the fact that the filter is missing the “last year” setting. I’m a software engineer - 9 times out of 10, I want to find the bugs for a very specific version of a software, so having the year filter helps.

I now use Brave Search.

Just because it’s made by Google doesn’t mean literally anything. Google hacks happen literally all the time.

Just heed the warning and slap new Android on it or an up-to-date alternative OS. Otherwise you’re pretty likely to get gotten

Metroid: Fusion is pretty fun!

Parking lots are absolutely everywhere. Some zones just prohibit large ones for historic reasons or otherwise (it’s possible maybe you were in one of those zones)?

Visit Nashville, TN (around Centennial Park), Orlando, FL (around the Mall at Millennia) or Jacksonville, FL (around St. John’s Town Center) and you’ll see what I mean.

I used Joey for about a year but since the blackout it’s been uninstalled