I’d like to use SearXNG as well but experience the same - I’ve tried a lot of different instances and settings but I always seem to get worse results than searching directly in the source search engine, for some reason? (note I don’t use Kagi so this isn’t an endorsement for them either)

Where did I say anything that implied otherwise?

Illegal street racing, being more of a calculated act, seems marginally worse morally. Of course it goes without saying that’s not to defend drunk driving.

I see them around all the time these days. I wouldn’t dream of buying a car that says ‘build your dreams’ on it but that’s not on all models.

Maybe neighborhood?

Showing my age, that reminds me of Geocities.

I feel like that’s getting there, though ‘home’ doesn’t sit right with me somehow; too many other connotations (after all it’s still somebody else’s server, unless you’re self-hosting it, you’re still using it on their terms so it’s not a ‘home’ in a typical sense).

Maybe ‘gateway’ or something like that?

No, I have to own my music if I’m going to enjoy it; the thought of a company being able to take away music that I love takes away the enjoyment. I need at least the files and the backups under my control. It’s not even about price, I would still buy CDs and rip them if that was the only way.

It’s a massive disservice to open source that they keep it on life support, LibreOffice is a great modern office suite but much of the public still recognise the OpenOffice name and are drawn to it instead, shame on Apache.

Fast can mean moving with great speed or fixed securely in place (among other things).

Yeah, I’m sure you’re right, my comment about transformers I guess was more about colloquial usage, i.e. rightly or wrongly we called DC power supplies transformers in the 90s. I also don’t know how local that was, maybe it was just my family!

I’d call them USB adapters; “chargers” is probably slightly more common though never sat right with me since they can be used to power things other than charging.

Or more in the past we would call any kind of power adapters “transformers” but don’t seem to hear that much any more.

But they did, I made a friendly comment, I was even self-deprecating about it, mostly to be funny, and they accused me of having prejudices. I don’t take well to being called prejudiced, I’m not and hate people who are. Then they randomly brought up racism, that was a weird exchange.

No. OK, you’re not being a rational person here so goodbye.

Well mine was a tongue in cheek comment too, and I thought quite friendly and fun, and then you decided to call me prejudiced. The main point I was picking up on was mindless internet scrolling which is something I do when I’m unhealthily managing my boredom, it’s a warning sign for me, maybe it’s not for you, but I thought I would share my perspective, as I did in a non-judgemental way. Masturbation is perfectly fine, it can be healthy, it can be not, when combined with mindless internet scrolling it didn’t sound healthy to me but that’s just me. I don’t get fishing either but I wouldn’t judge someone for it, just like I didn’t judge you, but you responded like I did judge you, it’s like we’re on Reddit or something.

Why, do you know me from somewhere? The key word there is “seems”; if you truly get fulfilment from mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation then go for it. That’s just not my experience. When you posted that here did you not expect other people to share their own perspectives?

mindless Internet scrolling, pot and masturbation

That part seems more like succumbing to boredom than combatting it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m guilty myself.

It would need someone to set it up, but I have my non-techy family members on Silverblue and it suits the purpose as outlined. Also not sure why all the fear-mongering about btrfs, I would say it’s ready and suitable for mainstream use now, or you don’t have to use it.

It’s good to keep some old computers to play around with. This looks particularly old, so you could look at trying some ultra lightweight desktop environments and browsers - don’t really have any current recommendations there myself but it could be fun to see what you can do with it.

It’s not about blocking ads for me, that’s a happy side-effect, it’s about owning your computing and taking the necessary protection against tracking. Before “ad blockers” existed I spent a lot of time manually configuring my browser to block websites from connecting me to unnecessary, potentially intrusive third party servers, after all it’s my browser and my internet connection. Now uBlock Origin does that for me, it’s not an ad blocker, it’s a wide spectrum content blocker and the user should have the final say on what they connect to. I think we should stop calling them ad blockers.

I don’t remember hearing Maxthon mentioned since the 00s, I’m a bit surprised it still exists! Epic is proprietary and Chromium-based, so avoid.