PhoenixAlpha

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

They are more privacy focused, but they are not "better" in an unqualified way. Mullvad and Tor especially are not recommendable for daily usage without significant asterisks, they have some features disabled and if you modify their settings at all, add extensions, or even log in to websites, you ruin their anonymity features.

Librewolf is nice, but it's basically just Firefox with Arkenfox pre-applied, and it lacks automatic updates which are important for security. If you have a package manager that's better, but by definition you'll still get updates slower than using Firefox and applying Arkenfox yourself. For instance Firefox 129 released on August 6, Librewolf 129 on August 10.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yes, I use it with Bitwarden

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Air pollution from coal and oil is estimated to kill 5 million people every year. That's more than every nuclear disaster combined, and not to mention the signifcant safety advances that have been made since those disasters.

All nuclear waste ever produced can fit in one football field. It's stored in containers so thick you can go up and hug them safely, and so strong you can ram them with a train without doing significant damage. And if need be, we have the means to bury it deep underground.

Renewables are fine, but they don't deliver consistently, so they need backup power. Nuclear provides that at much lower environmental cost than, say, giant lithium batteries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is an android skin in the settings, not as fleshed out as the ios one but it gets rid of the uncanny valley effect for me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use Startpage and am happy with it. Yes it uses Google, but Google can't track you as they can only see that the search came from the Startpage server. You also don't get any of the AI summary or sponsored link bullshit. Beyond that, you could try SearXNG which can aggregate results from many engines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

One time I brought a horse into a bar and they called the cops to kick me out. I can't believe comedians didn't warn me I wasn't allowed to do that irl. We really do live in a society

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If USB4 is so good, why isn't there USB4 2?

USB-IF:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Keymonk. It actually still mostly works if you find an old apk, I'm using it now. The suggestion bar is broken and it's a little buggy, but god most of the time it still flies, security risks be damned.

Keyboard 69 was another option, but it's also abandoned and I found it much more bloated and buggy.

What I wouldn't give for a good open source two finger swiping keyboard...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

If you're looking to rent for the day, you would never pick 3 cars over 1. And if you already own the 3 cars, you wouldn't go out of your way to rent another one. I don't see how a parking charge would change this, unless it was far heavier than this proposal is.

Additionally, think about how many full 9-seat vans there are in Paris. Think about how many single-occupant SUVs there are. I think the benefit here is pretty clear.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Article says they are tripling the cost, and 9 is more than 3, so...no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Do you have a source for him moving to restrict sales? I see there was a House bill about that a couple weeks ago, but it didn't involve Biden.

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