This is likely not the best place to get answers for this question.

I’m not saying create an echo chamber, my advice excludes engaging with people who agree and disagree, at least when it comes to large scale politics. If someone wants to get involved in politics, I think they should avoid echo chambers and engage in good discussion. But for people who just want to or need to get away from it, disengaging entirely I think is the way to go. You can still get involved in local polics without engaging in larger politics. They often have direct impacts on your community and it varies wildly between different communities.

I recommend not watching or reading the news. Spend your free time learning about hobbies or finding new ones, getting involved in local politics instead of national/global politics, improving yourself, and finding friends in communities around your hobby.

If you want some PC gaming friends that don’t talk about politics all the time, DM me. We’re in our late 20’s through 40’s.

I haven’t touched the ai feature, I’m glad its separate and not forced into search, but I’m also glad people seem to be getting good use out of it. Best of both worlds.

Same. I work and play at my computer, so I certainly get my use out of it. I wouldn’t pay for it if both my work and my hobbies weren’t both on my PC.

It depends on what you’re trying to be private from. Kagi has been good to me so far, my goal is mainly to escape from corporate/ad profile tracking.

It’s disingenuous to say there’s no point in striving for privacy if you’re not going to go completely off grid. There are always better and worse options.

I use kagi, it’s very good.

That is the wildest take I’ve ever heard. Full beards can be presentable, professional and clean. A beard goes with a suit like peanut butter goes with jelly.

I haven’t shaved since 2014.

Not quite the same as Proton, you have to use your own domain and set all that up, and I already mentioned the plus thing isn’t an option for obvious reasons. Still good, but not quite as good.

Plus you can’t arbitrarily delete them to nuke an entire website account if you wanted to.

Managing my blu ray library. Among other things. What are you using Linux for that isn’t piracy?

By your metrics, possiblylinix127, Linux is also a system that is used for piracy. I can do piracy on Linux. That makes it illegal!

Does bitwarden allow me to automatically create a new randomized email address for every new saved login I create, that forwards to my secret main address? That’s the main thing that’s keeping me with Proton. Every online account is a different email. When I start getting spam because one leaked, I simply delete that email address, problem solved. Something like the Gmail plus thing doesn’t work since I can’t arbitrarily delete an alias that way when I want to.

I’m not saying that about all video games, I was trying to say that people who don’t like learning tend to gravitate towards whatever video games are popular at the time and don’t necessarily form complex opinions about different types of games or their tastes. Anything below surface level enjoyment that would require learning would be too much. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There’s nothing wrong with just loading up whatever new call of duty or fifa or something and just relaxing.

I guess I didn’t elaborate enough on that, I just said “popular video game” which didn’t get my meaning across. In short, I was saying those people also don’t put a lot of thought or effort into what entertainment they consume because whatever is easiest and most popular is good enough, because they don’t care to dive into learning about anything else.

I’m also not saying these games don’t have complicated and high skill ceilings. Most do.

Sell it on ebay for cheap and I’m sure some poor sap who lost or broke theirs will be very thankful for a cheap replacement.

Hey, I’m going through the same thing! I just got all my hardware in for my new server and I’m learning docker stuff right now. When do some difficult troubleshooting I’ll think of the random lemming I passed in the night that is doing something similar.

I completely agree. And I’ve thought about this before. I can’t know what is going on in people’s heads but a lot of people just… don’t care. They have fun watching TV and playing popular video games. I think a large portion of people just don’t like learning things. Like it just annoys them. That’s what I’ve been led to believe. Which also makes it hard to get people into something I’m into. They’ll see I’m massively excited about something and the thing I’m into looks cool, so they’ll ask about it. Then whatever it is, be it some tech thing, a niche game, enthusiast grade flashlights, literally anything, turns out to require learning something, they just get turned off of it immediately. If someone wants to get into something I’m doing, I’ve started prefacing it with “this is not straight forward, are you okay with a bit of learning?” to avoid the disappointment and wasting their time. Usually the answer is no.

Yeah I’m mostly talking about the creators themselves. Like mod and modpack developers. I’m in a unique position to be privy to a lot of the creator drama without being a creator myself and it can get pretty toxic.