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Buncha dark pattern bullshit

I was digging LMDE until my 8GB of ram simply couldn’t handle the load and I’m in AntiX now. Honestly, I’ve watched Mint go from being immature and insecure to security leaders without losing their accessibility. Solid and incredibly important distro if you ask me

Hopefully you’ve tried another distro by now, and also know to avoid big corporate distros best you can

They’ve never given me the vibe that that reversal of course was permanent, or that other things they do aren’t similarly anti-user

Yeah those are the browsing adjustments I had to make. though I changed the window sizing to be letter boxing. After that I left it alone. Plus the resetting of all the cookies and cached data

I just changed my browsing habits. Frankly I’ve also realized having the internet be less convenient has made me more mentally healthy

Ah. Someone who found what worked for them a long time ago and has developed an expertise in something esoteric. I’m sure we’ll have much to discuss

What distro, terminal emulator, shell, and text editor does this person like? We might have stuff to talk about. If the answers to any of the above are Fedora, XTerm, Bash, or Pico then we have nothing to talk about and I’ll take the wolves

Brother, you just described why I bought a toner based printer. The ink is cheap AF, doesn’t dry out, doesn’t require frequent test pages, doesn’t brick if I disable the ink subscription because I don’t print that much, the drivers are all released GPL by the printer company, and it can just sit on a shelf I wasn’t using anyway. I haven’t looked at it in weeks and as an added bonus I dropped the print contrast to increase the longevity of the toner cartridge.

I work remote. About once a month I have to print a shipping label or something for drop off. Having a printer in the house greatly increases turn about on that and important papers

Driving 30 minutes into town every time I have to print something isn’t worth it

Doesn’t work for some things unfortunately

“Do you have a shredder? Do you keep your payment information in an exposed location. If you found out a company leaked your credit card data, your phone number, everything you’d ever said to your therapist, how would you feel?”