It’s been fun w Lina Khan @ the helm. gonna miss seeing the FTC make moves on corpos. (^_*)

i don’t want ppl to know my business, is what i tell most ppl to keep it short and sweet, haha

yep! ended up setting a diff default page, but was more so curious about the behavior/root cause.

was doing some distro hopping & was trying out antiX on an old machine.

dl was done using the antiX package mgr.

region is english speaking; usa.

yes, manually set a different home page but was more so curious why this was happening.

does not compute. how does this response help me understand? i have read through a bunch of stuff but question has not been answered. what have i missed? pls advise.

amazing ( ◠‿◠ )

mojeek has been pretty cool so far. been using it on & off a few weeks now.

Established with a commitment to user privacy, Mojeek operates its own crawler-based index, setting it apart from search engines that rely on third-party search results, such as those from Google or Bing. Unlike many mainstream search engines, Mojeek does not track, profile, or personalize search results, ensuring an unbiased and transparent search experience for its users.

graphene os looking more & more attractive every day

sam altman & his goons, check.

leaving your phone at home is extreme?? wtf.

i agree w most of this. how do you expect to help convince others that privacy is important in this day & age if you’re being a turd bc you feel superior to someone that is just starting out? being civil & helpful doesn’t cost anything. i guess being toxic doesn’t either but that won’t help anyone move fwd to a better place of privacy.

how easily we forget about our beginnings in the privacy realm.

haha, same here! definitely learned a lot from lemmy communities, so welcome!

grapheneOS is a de-googled os based on android. the funny thing is that it’s supported by mostly google phones, haha!

you can find all the info here & definitely keep asking questions in the tech & privacy communities:

https://grapheneos.org/

$600 preorder? why not a (used?) pixel phone w graphene os?

The Light Phone II runs an Android-based operating system called Light OS, developed by The Light Phone, Inc. Consumers have found ways to jailbreak it to access Android. In future iterations of Light OS, more features and services are in consideration to be added, including music streaming, WhatsApp, and ridesharing.

mine was on point

tldr:

Lead-associated mental health and personality differences were most pronounced for cohorts born from 1966 through 1986 (Generation X).

Conclusions

A significant burden of mental illness symptomatology and disadvantageous personality differences can be attributed to US children’s exposure to lead over the past 75 years. Lead’s potential contribution to psychiatry, medicine, and children’s health may be larger than previously assumed.

mlem & voyager for ios on the app store are great for lemmy

eric schmidt needs to take a dirt nap already

it’s from the simpsons: https://youtu.be/mfcTcSbGMmo

heyoo!

i really want to make the switch but need to figure out how to steal a pixel phone bc i sure as hell ain’t paying for one

never heard of jitsi, but looks pretty legit from what you shared!