This is a very short sighted view of the situation at hand.
The banning of books and literal re-writing of history in certain states should be concerning for anyone who realizes what a dark road we're headed down.
I love Quake and have for years but it's definitely sad to see how barren the franchise has become and the ways that QuakeCon has changed from what it once was
This entire article reads as a clear hit piece on Mozilla.
The fact that Mozilla spends money on political activism and companies involved in things akin to that isn't some big revelation like the article makes it out to be.
It's literally on Mozilla's website in great detail with the overarching goal of a free and open internet, which in the majority of countries requires political activism.
The explainer may be sincere; however, it is clear that privacy and an open web are not in Google's interests. They contradict that sentiment in the explainer entirely. There's 0 reason for any one to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The issue isn't that we have no alternative, it's that this feature will basically eliminate those alternatives sadly. You can read more about it here if you haven't, but it's bad.
My advice is follow hashtags for topics you like or are interested in. They will then show up in your feed. It's wonderfully personalized and I've found lots of great people that way with similar interests
+1 for Mullvad VPN, it's privacy focused and works great!
Use qBittorrent, it's the standard torrenting software that basically everyone uses nowadays. It's lightweight and reliable.
Make sure to set up qBittorrent after installing it, go into settings and bind your network interface to your VPN so even if your VPN is off accidentally or gets kicked off somehow you will be safe. You can also setup the "kill-switch" functionality in most VPNs so that it kills qBittorrent if it goes off, but that's not always 100% reliable.
As far as Udemy courses, I've yet to find a good source for them myself, at least any relatively newer courses. I've never tried to find art courses but I'd say using a torrent search engine like Knaben or qBittorrent's built in search functionality.
What is the point of having cheap insurance options if said insurance does not cover or actually do anything? It's worthless junk literally! Instead of taking the insurance you'd be better off pocketing the money and forgoing it all together.
I don't know how you can blame "Obamacare" for medical prices increasing when it is clear that they would have and will continue to rise no matter if "Obamacare" still exists or not. When healthcare is about profits and is a business, whether any of us live or die does not matter to these companies.
You've sold me on it! I'm gonna have to play it now