cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/29713631
you don't have to tell me information about why Rui's drive is gone, I just googled it because I forgot their name (I thought it was Anadius' drive at first)
See this is why I love Valve. At least their hardware and the great support for open source software (Linux, Wine/Proton).
No, I don't agree with everything they do in regards to Steam. I know that it sucks, that you can't truly own your games nowadays, but at least Valve supports an OS that lets you truly own your hardware and have control over your software. And they do it, by providing open source software (Proton) with no strings attached (free software license) that lets you play games on this exact FOSS OS.
Use LibreX or a fork called LibreY, it's a JS-free proxy for Google search
There's a list of instances at https://librey.org/instances.php
Something similar exists for DuckDuckGo btw, it's called 4get
Or you can just use SearXNG, a meta search engine that aggregates results from multiple sources
The story isn't nearly as dramatic as it seems. Maybe this thread can offer some nuance: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034
You can actually unlock LUKS from another machine over SSH: https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unlock-luks-using-dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux/
I'm pretty happy with this solution
Shutting down 3rd-party apps
Sign the petition! Not sure if it is going to make any difference, but it just takes a couple of minutes. https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive
Sign the petition! Not sure if it is going to make any difference, but it just takes a couple of minutes. https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive
It's not that hard to compete with the ever shrinking Netflix library
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