Brave has proved time and again that they're only trustworthy as long as whatever scheme they're working on isn't found out, and I can't imagine that there is any chance their search engine is any better.
If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.
My wife and I actually met on OkCupid, happily married for 8 years now, and dated a few years before that, so safe to say I haven't been there in 10+ years.
Sad to hear it's gone down the drain, it seemed the least vile of the available options 😓
Now if only we could have a cut of Donnie Darko that has the extra scenes from the Director's Cut, but leaves Echo & The Bunnymen's glorious "The Killing Moon" in the opening scene, right the fuck where it belongs. What was Richard Kelly thinking? INXS?? It boggles the mind 😓
I think you've misunderstood my meaning. I wasn't bragging, looking down my nose at the rest of the world who still has to deal with Covid. I was trying to convey:
How messed up it is to live in a place where something like "cancelling Covid" can become a political decision, and
How adept the human mind is at blocking out trauma.
A ridiculously high percentage of the population here was vaccinated, so at least that vector is dampened.
Personally, I do my best to still stay at home if I'm sick, keep my kids home if they've got the sniffles, and if we're feeling particularly unwell, we get a Covid test, unlike the vast majority of the country. We haven't tested positive in the past 2+ years.
There isn't much else we can do. It's not like we're fighting a rag-tag group of anti-vaxx retards here. It's the entire country. Almost everyone vaccinated, no masks or restrictions in sight for a year and a half. There's no fight to be had.
I understand completely that being compromised sucks tremendously, which is one of the reasons we (my wife and I) took the restrictions extremely seriously, to the point where both our families rolled their eyes at us. And we didn't give a fuck, we did our best to do what we thought was right, and we kept doing that for as long as it was doable.
I have no idea what the numbers are today, if people here are still dying. I doubt it, because people would talk about that, but I don't know for sure. I was trying to convey what it's like living in a post-pandemic society, even if it is so by choice.
Well, where did they get the symptoms from?? It's all a hoax, so what's really wrong with them??
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Yeah, the Surprised Pikachu Faces are baffling; everyone, on the entireplanet, was warned, but the inconvenience was simply too great.
And anyway, "That will never happen to me, and it can't be my responsibility to be inconvenienced just to protect strangers, and from a made up global hoax, no less!"
It's so surreal to see posts about masks and Covid.
I live in Denmark. At the beginning of last year, the government decided that Covid was no longer a critical threat, and all restrictions were removed on February 1st, 2022.
I have not seen a single mask since. I've heard Covid mentioned here maybe twice in the past year, with maybe one family I know getting infected in that period (that I know of...).
My wife and I were Team Restrictions, in the aggressively cautious (and scared) end of the spectrum. Two young daughters; those of you with kids (especially little ones) will probably know the crippling fear of losing your children.
Then one day the government decides it's just over, we can't be bothered with this anymore, and there was nothing we could do about it. Most of the country seemed very happy with the whole thing, certainly most people we know (and most of them had received our secret scorn for their borderline indifference to caution and protocol).
And then time passed, and some more time, and I went from checking in on the hardcore epidemiologists on Twitter daily — the ones constantly (and correctly!) pointing out that the decision to "cancel Covid" was insane, 100% political and in complete denial of the available data — to completely forgetting Covid happened.
2 years of hell, and for more than a year it's been completely out of my thoughts. It's absolutely mind-blowing. Especially since this is not the reality everywhere else. I don't think about Covid anymore, at all, unless something like this post reminds me it's still alive and kicking.
I have no love for Apple's hardware (primarily price related*), but since I am completely dependent on Adobe for my work, my OS options are MacOS and Windows. I love MacOS and passionately hate Windows 🙄
My solution was a Hackintosh; chose my own hardware (within compatibility restraints) and built my own computer. The price is miles from what I would have to pay Apple. My system cost roughly $3K (with two 4K screens), compared to the (roughly) equivalent, non-upgradeable options from Apple that start around $5K without screens.
The caveat is that sometimes I need to upgrade hardware to make sure it's compatible with the latest (ish) MacOS versions (because software like Photoshop requires it), and it is a difficult process. Recently had to switch out my graphics card because I was stuck on High Sierra (old card was Nvidia, no support beyond HS), and it took me the better part of a week to get everything working.
Now it works, I'm on Monterey, and everything is chugging along perfectly. For now. Not sure what the future of the Hackintosh will be, but most likely there's a dead end out there somewhere (nearby) as Apple fazes out Intel support.
Still worth it, but I'm dreading the day I have to give up and either pay Apple for hardware, or switch to [shudders] Windows.
Or maybe Adobe will start supporting Linux! 🤣
I think I might hate iOS even more than Windows, though.
You know where the 'cyano' in cyanoacrylate comes from, right? Maybe don't use it for stuff that touches food/drink... 😳