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Cake day: June 17th, 2023
  • Gex@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 year ago

    After switching to the fediverse, I should also replace Google.

    Not necessarily. One step to a better internet at a time. Sometimes people get overwhelmed by free software solutions because they try to do everything at once.

    But with what?

    I’ve tried a lot but replacing google search is not easy. You can of course use a meta search engine like searx which is great but then you hand your search traffic directly to some random instance owner. You could also use startpage which is basically a firewall for google search. duckduckgo does work and I use it sometimes but the search results are definitely worse than google’s. The bangs are a nice feature though.

  • Gex@discuss.tchncs.detoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the last movie you watched and how was it?
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    1 year ago

    Same movie for me and same impression too. Not sure if the monster’s were even necessary. Also it had more of a “run away from the explosion” vibe than a “oh this uboat is about to implode” vibe. But I can confirm it is ok-ish.

    Edit: That’s crazy. I’ve looked at your profile since I thought it’s a funny coincidence. I’ve also lived in South Korea for a while and I’ve also used Pop OS in the past. Really interesting. May I ask what you are doing in Jeju-Do?

  • Gex@discuss.tchncs.detolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Society IF
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    1 year ago

    it’ll take years for achieving even the current level of usability that Windows provides out of the box

    I’m currently dual booting Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 and would say that gap has already closed. I cannot really work with the shell in Windows because it does not seem to understand bash which makes things difficult. The windows package manager is very cumbersome to use. Customizing the DE is a hassle and I cannot switch to other DEs. Most of the code base is closed so I cannot really see what is getting executed in the background. The settings come with telemetry enabled on default. I think it does not even have Vim installed.