DashboTreeFrog @ DashboTreeFrog @discuss.online

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It's like we're reverting to the days you would go to homestarrunner.com, illwillpress, etc to see content from people you actually wanted to see content from. Honestly looking forward to it

There are a lot of VPNs and a lot of opinions, so hard to recommend specific ones. There was a site I used a while back with a quiz that helped suggest VPNs, I think it was https://www.vpntierlist.com/ but I'm not sure. I seriously looked into ProtonVPN by whatever site it was' recommendation, but I ended up just renewing NordVPN, which I was already using, because of a special offer I got for ending my subscription in the first place due to privacy concerns. In the end, despite NordVPN having some potentially fishy business connections, it still suits my general needs, and with their various discounts feels like good value to me at least.

Completely stopping tracking for shopping especially is gonna be impossible, but since you say "least trackable" I think there is some obfuscation you can do. Keep in mind, I'm by no means a security expert or anything, but general paranoia at the state of the internet has made me interested in trying to obfuscate my online identity for a while now (I say as I post on Social media...), so I've got some things I've found helpful

A simple easy thing is to start using browser containers for your different identities, which is built into Firefox. This way, details of one identity are less likely to leak into another, as in, what you search for in one identity isn't gonna end up in the shopping results of another. Related to this, I'd look at script blockers and other extensions that can stop trackers. My go to is NoScript but I get some people don't like it cause it's fiddly and can break sites. I've heard good things about Ghostify but haven't tried it myself. Getting started with NoScript way back, it was crazy to see how many different useless trackers and scripts were loading in the background that you don't even see and are apparently completely unnecessary to the functioning of a site.

Then I'd also recommend using a VPN. I love it when I see ads being served to me from completely random countries because of how often I change my location, confirms that whatever advertising service that for whatever reason slipped by my blockers still don't even know my general location.

And that's about it off the top of my head. If I can think of more I'll come back and edit my post.

I am starting to make the effort in switching but honestly, it's not going as easily as I hoped... I got my old Surface Go running fully on Mint now and I've got some frustrations trying to make it work the way I want. I'm sure I'll get there, but what seemed like a fun project has become frustrating.

Next I plan on setting up dual booting on my gaming setup, which I suspect should be less frustrating than trying to run Linux on Microsoft hardware. If that goes smoothly I'll wipe Windows on the machine and switch fully to Mint there.

Only thing I don't think I can let go of Windows on is my work laptop. I use too much MS office suite stuff for work and have to move documents between people all the time. I already tried using Libre Office at work a few years back already and it just didn't work out, especially Power Point / Impress.

Overall, yeah, I think we should all start making a move off Windows when I see the state of things, it's just... not that easy for everyone.

That's what I thought, but when I search for Onenote alternatives it's always at or near the top of every list.

No, first time hearing about it. Every source I looked at talks about Zim or Joplin, but Xournal looks good! So far between this and Rnote I've got good contenders for my note-taking app.

The handwriting here looks absolutely amazing! Just can't see if this is a cross device thing from the site, don't see a lot of documentation.

So far this one looks the most like what I'm familiar with, so probably will try it first! The save format not being stable might be a deal breaker for now though as like I said, I move between devices a lot.

My deleted message was me accidentally replying to the wrong post.

This looks amazing for handwriting! I'll look into it more. From what I see so far though, I can't tell if this will sync notes between devices Replied to the wrong post... So far this one looks the most like what I'm familiar with, so probably will try it first! The save format not being stable might be a deal breaker for now though as like I said, I move between devices a lot.

My man, I think a lot of evidence has been presented just in this thread.

I get the point, you don't easily turn people to your cause with hateful rhetoric, but at a certain point, patience is lost when it feels like people are just ignoring reality and continuing to not just participate in, but support institutions that have created a lot of harm for people.

Non-US expat living in Asia here. It's crazy how easy it seems for US citizens / westeners to get jobs overseas compared to people from developing nations. I can tell you, if you have a teaching license and developed country's passport there are international schools all over the world willing to pay you well plus living and travel expenses.

Similar situation, someone gave me a live album of a band I love as a gift and I was psyched to listen to it, only to realize at home I had no way of playing it...

I was a bit annoyed at the nitpickiness of this comment until I saw that you're from the NDP. I salute your good work and consider myself more educated.

There's dozens of us!

Yeah, when I want to just jot some words down quick in Windows, Wordpad has always been my go-to, but main thing for me is opening .txt files. Maybe I'm dumb and there's some Notepad default layout thing I never bothered figuring out, but I don't want to have to scroll right to read long lines of text.