Astaroth

So one thing I've started getting worried about is whether youtube/google will eventually block/delete youtube/google accounts who use adblockers.

I don't really care about my youtube account but I have several gmail accounts and losing those would be awful.

I assume they won't ever go that far, but just the possibility is scary.

So is there an easy way to migrate all your stuff to some other email service and what are some good ones?

:q!

you mean ZQ

Happens to me all the time 😅

And since I'm already holding down ctrl I've formed a habit of using ctrl + shift + v even though just regular ctrl + v works. Although for me it's mostly positive as I usually just want the text without formatting anyway.

Can you turn off privacy features?

I still want most things for convenience, but the one thing I want to get rid of is telemetry and somehow I just can't seem to completely get rid of it with firefox (I've tried both nightly and default firefox)

So a browser that gets rid of all the telemetry and then allows me to enable other things that I want would be fine by me.

same

Mass Effect Legendary Edition (ME1), just got Liara & did the DLC mission as well as a bit of uncharted worlds & rogue VI on Earth's moon.

The game looks a lot better and most controls are nicer. Although somehow the Mako is even worse to control in LE than the original ME and I get some stutter/loading while running around in presidium.

Being able to skip while in the elevator is nice, but I would've liked to see the option to be moved directly into normandy added to the rapid transits like in ME2 & ME3. Having to go to C-Sec, take the elevator, and wait for the decontamination process every time is really tedious, and it's why I rarely visited the Citadel in the original ME1 as well.

Honestly ME1 LE is looking pretty nice and I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't played it yet, but it was always the story that was the highlight of ME1, the gameplay isn't actually that great and I've already replayed the original several times so I think I'm just going to go ahead and play ME2.

I would recommend Arch and derivatives (supposedly EndeavourOS is Arch but better for beginners, I've never used it though) or NixOS, they're highly configurable & have good package managers.

I would not recommend debian or it's derivatives because apt package manager is way worse than pacman.

Also while Arch is a rolling release OS, it's not really unstable, it's not like it constantly breaks with updates.

I've used Linux Mint a bit at a relative's house so they can have an easier & more "stable" GUI experience, but there weren't all the packages I needed on the GUI software manager, and even some packages that existed didn't want to install until I used the terminal anyway.

And as I mentioned earlier apt is just a worse package manager than pacman so it's a pain to use.

Especially since I was using plain Bash without good tab completion unlike Fish or Zsh, which makes the much longer apt commands that much more annoying to type in compared to just -Syu -S -Ss -Qs -Rns.

And it's not just that the commands and package names are better and shorter on pacman compared to apt, but there's more packages (and I'm not even counting AUR).

For example, on Linux Mint I were going to install wine-mono and wine-gecko, which you're going to want if you plan to play windows games outside steam proton, but they didn't exist and I had to follow the https://wiki.winehq.org/Mono and https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko installation guides instead of just downloading 2 binaries through pacman.

And tbh I eventually gave up on wine-mono and just got the .net runtimes I needed through winetricks.

If you're really supper worried and paranoid then instead of Arch you can use NixOS, it's whole shtick is that you can have multiple versions and always roll back to before anything broke.

I love fish.

Sometimes I wonder why people think using the terminal is so hard, then every once in a while when I'm not on my home PC and have to use Bash I get reminded of why

I've been meaning to try zsh since it can supposedly do everything fish can while still being posix compliant, but I've never felt the need to not be using fish so I just never got around to it

Well just look at the youtube sub on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1792um0/let_that_sink_in_before_you_defend_a_billion/

99% of comments are youtube apologists

Hopefully most of those are bot comments & the mods are probably youtube employees

I don't like any DEs, tbh both KDE Plasma and Cinnamon felt worse than Win7 DE. And I'll never ever even try Gnome

But I absolutely love WMs, I use i3wm

Neovim

Skyrim but it's an MMORPG (and I don't mean some shitty WoW clone with an Elder Scrolls skin draped over it like ESO)