Regarding AI, I filled it in as following:

• What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?
  • Other (please specify): Fuck AI
• In your opinion, what is the most important work for Mozilla to do right now?
  • Other (please specify): Do not implement AI
• What is most important to you in AI?
  • Select nothing

Yes, the script uses git svn under the hood,
however it simplifies the process of a fair amount of steps,
to just x1 easy CLI command with an in/output parameter.

Nope, only SVN => Git

SearXNG: https://github.com/searxng/searxng

It enhances and respects privacy,
is open source and self hostable,
and queries multiple configurable search engines (google, bing, brave, duckduckgo, …)

You can find a list of public hosted instances here:
https://searx.space/

However I prefer to slap an instance randomizer on top, so each of my queries goes through another public SearXNG instance, for more privacy, and mostly, to bypass rate-limiting after frequent queries.

For this I use:

• On Desktop - GimmeASearX:
  https://github.com/demostanis/gimmeasearx
• On the go - SearX NeoCities:
  https://searx.neocities.org/

That behavior fucking sucks actually

Wrong community,
both are not FOSS
and both are privacy concerns.

I posted a guide last year on how to do it on Eternity for Lemmy:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

Look it up on PCGamingWiki,
they usually list all configuration + compatibility changes that need to be tweaked:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home

Pro or anti consumer features? x’)

That’s true,
but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D

Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets.

Khajiit has wares if you have coin.

I have an MSI Bravo 17 for work since this month,
quite happy about it so far.

My experience with MSI is best price/value for hardware specs, but with shitty build quality.

However this one feels quite sturdy compared to earlier MSI laptops.

It can get loud under heavy duty,
but it goes quiet again under low workload,
for now at least, my previous MSI laptop sounded like a jet engine whenever it was powered on.

The one you posted seems particularly suited to run Linux upon, since it’s an all AMD machine, and their Linux support is great.

I feel the same,
to battle it I drive with my sun visors down,
all the time, even when it’s dark.

I never voted for these camera’s,
and driving with them down is not illegal,
but they successfully block the sight of most camera’s.

I like the electric part.

What I don’t like is that it’s a steaming heap of spy-ware on wheels with no opt-out ability.

Which may lead to more expensive insurance depending on your driving style, or could be abused for even more nefarious reasons.

Unsure,
however it’s refreshing to see posts of this clown which actually make me smile instead of concerned.

I like and been using JetBrains IDEs for years now,
and am/was happily paying for a good product.

However I feel like they’ve been going backwards in the last year or 2,
it feels less premium,
and more like your a paying beta tester,
since lately I deal with bugs in their IDEs too often to my liking.

But this news kinda scares me,
usually if something is free,
then you are the product,
paying with your data.

Which I can see happen to these IDEs now :/
Especially in this day and age where massive data collection by big tech is sadly normalized, and where coding data likely is wanted to be trained upon by AI companies with the current ongoing hype bubble and all.

If that would start to happen to JetBrains products, I fear for enshitiffication in the forms of:

• Losing your privacy
• Leaking company secrets

And further once the AI bubble pops,
which will lead to less demand for data,
since there will be less companies.

Go see for yourself,
don’t knock it till you tried it.

Manjaro,
benefits of Arch,
while being gamer ready,
easier to use and more stable.

It also has a GUI to manage your graphics drivers.

New server appears to work well,
thank you for the quick resolve! <3