I’ll probably get FH4, but Motorsport is out for me, since it’s broken on Linux.

I’m also considering getting Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Motorsport. Can you recommend these?

I would love to switch away from DuckDuckGo, and I would be very happy if Mojeek was a viable alternative. I’ll try using it for some time and I will report any issues I encounter with the search. Btw it’s great that you’re on the Fediverse!

When I see Subnautica, I upvote

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and X-Plane 12. Maybe also Forza Horizon 5.

Never heard of it.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/6/20/introducing-mullvad-leta-a-search-engine-used-in-the-mullvad-browser

It’s pretty neat and Mullvad is a very privacy-focused company with a great track record. They released their search engine (which is a Google proxy) together with their own browser, which is based on the Tor Browser and developed together with the Tor Project.

SearXNG and 4get is what I recommend for privacy. They get their results from other search engines but those won’t be able to trace the query back to you. Also, it’s open source and everyone can set up their own instance so there is no incentive to generate profit from your data.

I tried to use 4get as a DDG proxy, all the instances I tried kept getting blocked by DuckDuckGo. It wasn’t a great experience. I also tried SearX and SearXNG many times, I always keep coming back to DuckDuckGo, because it just works and it gives me decent results. With SearX, I often had trouble finding relevant results. I tried various options and different search engine backends in SearXNG, but I never really liked it. DDG is definitely far from perfect, but so are the other options, and I think DDG is the best and easiest to use for less technical users.

Tell me which of the options I listed you would use.

• Startpage is owned by an advertising company
• Mullvad Leta is only available to Mullvad VPN customers
• Brave does a whole bunch of shady stuff, e.g. installing VPN services on people’s computers, although they never asked for it

The other options aren’t good either

And DDG is just a proxy for Bing following that logic. I’d choose those three over DDG.

Yeah, but if the alternatives aren’t better, why not just use DDG?

Making a new account every 100 searches should be an option (albeit a somewhat tedious one), no?

That ain’t a great solution either

Suggest a better alternative then. Startpage, Mullvad Leta and Whoogle are just Google proxies (and Whoogle is pretty unreliable), SearX, SearXNG and 4get are also just proxies for multiple search engines. There are no good independent search engiens, Brave Search sucks because it’s made by Brave, a company notorious for pushing weird NFT and Blockchain shit, Mojeek has pretty bad search results and Kagi requires an account, and only allows 100 searches.

1. This only applies to the mobile app
2. They stopped doing this in 2022
3. LibreWolf comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, which blocks all sorts of ads, trackers and other malicious JavaScript

Never even heard of it

I hope more users will do the same

Easy Solution: Linux, Firefox/LibreWolf, DuckDuckGo

Fuck Microsoft!

That’s great, I’m seeding

Does this also include Pull Requests? I saw some stuff mentioned on Yuzu’s website (before it was taken down) about some pretty cool upcoming changes, but they haven’t been merged yet. It would be pretty sad to lose all that great work, so it’s very important that we somehow get the PRs back.

Edit: This repo seems to have all the PRs https://github.com/yuzu-emu-mirror/.archive

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840

Not a huge issue right now, but it will probably an issue in the future

They probably sent the threats themselves to justify banning Proton Mail, because they want to destroy privacy and encryption.

I know, I tried OpenWRT on a Pi, but the experience wasn’t great (at least not as a home router).

I am aware of the ME, but I can’t really do anything about it. Current ARM SBCs are not suitable for a router/firewall (at least in my experience). I’m not that concerned about it though.

It might sound ridiculous, but I currently also run a WSUS server to get Windows updates. But I will probably replace my entire Windows setup with a better solution. Since I don’t run Windows bare-metal anymore, I’m looking forward to using offline Windows VMs on my Proxmox host and just accessing the internet directly from my Linux machine.