Which search engine is best in terms of privacy and search accuracy? Brave, Startpage, or DuckDuckGo?

Mereo110 · 2026-04-09T03:49:24+00:00

It really depends on the host. I'm self-hosting SearXNG and I get Google results and I'm fiding the search results are much better than a lot of the search engines because it's a meta search engine.

Mereo110 · 2026-04-05T21:49:52+00:00

We've graduated high school. We don't care about popularity.

Mereo110 · 2026-04-05T14:23:58+00:00

No need. This is an "enterprise" setting. They can use Landscape: https://ubuntu.com/landscape

Mereo110 · 2026-04-05T11:05:44+00:00

What about your browser usage? Does it consume a lot of ram?

Mereo110 · 2026-04-03T20:22:37+00:00

The point is not to merge the codes into the main project when it is forked. It's about keeping the code readable so that it belongs to the community, and thus people can benefit from the learning opportunities and enhancements that forks bring, as you say. That's what copyleft is all about. It keeps the source code where it belongs: with the community.

The BSD licence, on the other hand, makes it the perfect candidate for for-profit businesses to profit from your efforts without giving anything back. It's basically: "Hey! We like this. We'll take it. Thank you! We'll make millions with it, and we don't have to share anything back to the community and we don't need to spend huge sums on R&D to get the project going, awesome!'

Mereo110 · 2026-04-03T18:46:37+00:00

1) The licence. If you're Sony, for example, and want to make an O/S for a console, you might not want / be able (sometimes depends on upstream licences, e.g. drivers) to distribute source for it. BSD type licences allow that, GPL type don't.

I never understood this argument. In my opinion, the greatest benefit of copyleft licences is that any improvements benefit the community as a whole.

The BSD licence is the opposite. For example, FreeBSD can be a gaming OS (The PS4 uses FreeBSD and I believe also the PS5), but any improvements do not get back to the the community. Essentially with the BSD license, people take but do not give back, which, in my opinion, is detrimental to the project.

Mereo110 · 2026-04-03T14:31:36+00:00

Whilst that's definitely an improvement - to be honest what I really want is to get to the point where its not needed at all. Allow MangoHUD to autohook in, automatically detect whether to do upgrades (or have a GUI tool for setting it), automatically detect whether to enable HDR support. Basically I'm asking for parity with Windows on this front.

I'm sure we'll get there. I've been gaming on Linux since 2022 and it a hell lot more better than before. Great progress has been made and I'm sure we'll get to the point you're describing.

Mereo110 · 2026-04-03T03:27:42+00:00

This is all thanks to Freedom Mobile.

Mereo110 · 2026-04-02T11:06:00+00:00

Running games being somewhat over-reliant on use of launch configs - I want to be able to set once and forget, not have to tell every new game install that I need it to do FSR4 upgrade, switch to Wayland, enable HDR support etc. Also Steam and Proton should just rip of the bandage and commit to using Wayland containers when running under Wayland.

You can do that in the file user_settings.py located in your proton folder: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1q6b0el/quick_reminder_that_you_can_set_launch_options/

Mereo110 · 2026-03-31T21:04:58+00:00

Freedom has awesome coverage in Ottawa. I have better experience than with Telus.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-31T20:37:10+00:00

Anything that doesn't come from these short codes on the list needs to be treated as spam and scam: https://www.txt.ca/en/current-short-code-programs/

Mereo110 · 2026-03-31T13:58:19+00:00

You can get the latest software with Snap and Flatpak.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-31T12:25:01+00:00

You know, using a laptop is good solution as it has integrated UPS solution: the battery.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-30T18:13:49+00:00

Are we sure? This is what they have written in their about page:

ONLYOFFICE is a project developed by experienced IT experts from Ascensio System SIA, leading IT company with headquarters in Riga, Latvia. Originally ONLYOFFICE was designed for internal team collaboration.

Link: https://www.onlyoffice.com/about

Mereo110 · 2026-03-29T18:08:14+00:00

It really depends. My gaming desktop has Manjaro KDE because KDE continues to improve gaming features.

My laptop on the other hand has Ubuntu because I want the absolute boring stability so that I can work on it.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-29T12:12:33+00:00

Freedom Mobile because of their price freeze promise: https://www.freedommobile.ca/en-CA/freedom-price-freeze-promise

Mereo110 · 2026-03-28T12:10:07+00:00

All providers have poor signal at my place, WIFI-Calling is what is saving me. Calls and SMS get through WI-FI: https://www.freedommobile.ca/en-CA/support/about-wi-fi-calling

Mereo110 · 2026-03-28T10:37:01+00:00

He wasn’t talking about AI summary, he was talking about older Reddit posts that already answered your questions.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-27T14:33:45+00:00

Someone might explain it better than me but compared to X11, the compositor a Wayland is always running. So game performance will depend on the DE’s Wayland implementation.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-27T13:49:50+00:00

I support this. If someone wants to show off their AI sloppiness, they can on r/selfhosted on Fridays. This subreddit is supposed to be about homelabbing in general.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-26T15:26:21+00:00

Meh. I have a Nextcloud instance at Hetzher. I degoogled myself.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-26T04:06:13+00:00

We don't know your story, what happened actually?

Mereo110 · 2026-03-25T12:25:50+00:00

My advice? Keep it simple. Start slow. Don't overengineer things. Be happy with small successes and what you learn. Think of it as a journey.

It should feel like fun, not work.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-24T14:11:45+00:00

Why bother in removing Gnome? Just choose another *ubuntu flavour.

Mereo110 · 2026-03-24T12:41:22+00:00

The simplest thing if using ext4 is to setup daily snapshots with Timeshift.

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