I use it for the encryption and IP hiding just to make casual surveillance more difficult, more than trying to be 100% anonymous. If I can’t use a site with Tor, I’ll add an exception for it if it’s something I really need. Otherwise, I find an alternative for whatever I was trying to do, and I don’t really care.

Same.

I agree. I had frequent problems when I used it, which could take days to figure out, and even then might only be solved by a full reinstall. Linux has had significantly fewer problems for me, and those problems are solved much more easily. My bf is a huge Windows fan, but it seems like he’s struggling with some problem he can’t figure out every other month. Half a drive left as unallocated space instead of being included in a partition, causing constant “disk full” messages, was the most recent issue. On top of bad updates. I don’t bother suggesting he switch, because I know he’s happy with it, but Windowt definitely isn’t problem-free.

I use Librewolf +uBlock Origin + uMatrix + tor proxy. Javascript, XHR & 3rd party anything turned off. If some sites don’t work, it’s doing its job.

No reason to assume that. Outside of big cities, many businesses don’t even have an online existence.

Also llama.cpp, kobold.cpp, TabbyAPI, Aphrodite engine. There’s dozens of programs, at least, that run LLMs locally.

It used to be common.

I though Mastodon had a search engine.

I think there’s also We are women on lemmy.ml and Women on lemmy.world?

There is no safety without the guarantee of privacy. One is fundamental to the other.

I use it for translations regularly, and also tts. It works well.

I agree completely. The healthiest our online ecosystem has ever been was when parents were required, and empowered, to make decisions for their own children about appropriate internet usage.

So annoying. I have to restart Freetube so many times to play a video.

I’ve heard good things about Infomaniak. Whatever works for you!

Nextcloud offers a free account for home users through one of their partner companies, if you go to their signup page. That includes storage space, calendar access, and the ability to sync your calendar & contacts. If you want to pick your own provider, there are reviews on many in the Nextcloud forum. I’ve used Woelkli’s Nextcloud instance for years and never had any problem with them, but I think they may not currently be open to new accounts.

I haven’t used Lightroom, so I can’t comment on how similar they are either. But there are enough good options that hopefully anyone switching can find one that meets their needs. :)

I’ve only used Nemo in Linux, but I can’t think of anything Windows file explorer can do that it can’t.

ART, a fork of RawTherapee, is also very good.

I’d also say OpenSUSE is better if you’ve been using Linux for a couple years first. It has quirks.

I used to use Swisscows often. They usually give good results, moreso than other search sites. I only stopped using them because their site doesn’t work without javascript, and I don’t really use that anymore.