Fleppensteyn @ Fleppensteijn @feddit.nl

Floris Jan van Fleppensteyn

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It depends on your location whether you need a VPN. I'm good without it. If you want to pay, maybe you can pay for usenet instead.

Switch from bash to zsh and make it look nice – https://dev.to/abdfnx/oh-my-zsh-powerlevel10k-cool-terminal-1no0 Also replace ls with exa and cat with batcat. Remember you can set aliases in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.

If you like customization, I'd recommend KDE. If you like customizing keyboard stuff, you can customize your keyboard layout here: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. Also look into espanso for text expansion.

If you have an Android phone, get KDE Connect.

If you need new software, check apt search if it's in there.

I don't need office much but when I do, I hate that I can never find what I'm looking for in that stupid ribbon. I also don't know any good MS Access alternative.

My banking apps use hundreds of megabytes for very little functionality and one bank actually uses Facebook trackers so there could be some truth to this. The only problem is that it would be illegal.

When in the Netherlands, I once had to apply for government benefits. They had to scrutinize all my bank transactions for a full year in the process. I've heard they need it for 5 years now. I started using ATMs more, saving up cash, in case I need to go through such a process again.

I do use card almost always now since it's touchless but I'm not willing to give up cash.

I'd be happy if there is a way to block webshops. You can block e.g. Amazon but then there will be another shop in its place.

I wasn't so happy with Searx but I think I'll have a look at SearXNG if blocking is an option

Actually, yes. I uninstalled Gboard and went back to Samsung's keyboard but it doesn't help much

I disagree. There are large groups of (lower class) people who consume mostly American media, e.g. through Facebook and it does have an effect. American politics are copied in Europe.

Every time I'm in a plane, I get leg pain. I don't know where people put their legs and be comfortable. Once I was up for 50 hours at least, got a bunch of beer on the plane and still couldn't sleep.

I wouldn't donate to a nonprofit that pays 5 mil a year to their CEO, it sounds to me they have the money but waste it on the wrong things.

It's chilled, so choghurt

This Fool and Futurama have new seasons

https://www.businessinsider.com/ad-blocker-blockers-may-be-illegal-in-europe-2016-4

Yeah it sucks Mozilla keeps removing functionality. But I switched to Nightly and it's using much less disk space

I believe you can set browser.download.useDownloadDir in about:config

Maybe, but I'm talking about receiving it. That's why you have to be careful torrenting (uploading) whereas DDL is no problem

Whether someone spends their personal resources to copy a medium digitally or physically doesn't really matter to the copyright holder or author. They won't get paid either way

I don't know about the first part. Copying isn't illegal for your own use. Either way, when receiving a copy, you're not the one doing the actual copying. This was protected by fair use until EU politicians got lobbied into banning it.

But if you get it on VHS or DVD or whatever and sell it, or even give it away, Mr Bob won't receive his cut and it's not considered piracy or stealing