NutWrench

I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

There is still lots of cool stuff on the Internet. The key to finding it is to avoid search engines that have a financial incentives to point you at advertisers instead.

How about “genocidal assholes?” Can they still say that?

Windows only pretends to let you be the administrator, until Microsoft wants to do something shitty to you.

Linux actually makes you the administrator, so any screw ups are on you.

What are your thoughts on mass surviellence?

I’m . . . against it? Is this a trick question? But just in case it isn’t: don’t buy products with cameras and microphones and network connectivity built into them.

Also keep your online life completely separate from your real life. That means NO personal info on line. At all.

“The purpose of discipline is to live more fully, not less”

Especially in light of Microsoft CoPilot. You do not want obvious spyware on any computer.

Voodoo Banshee, so I could play Quake, Unreal and Deus Ex.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs shows what it takes for humans to be happy. A lot of people can’t even reach level 1.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

This. You can usually spot bots from their low- value click bait. (“should cannibalism be legal?”,“why does God allow evil to exist?”,“Trump is a genius”, etc).

The U.S. also has a huge defense industry that has made people ridiculously rich at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. Those billionaires are heavily invested in the defense industry, so it’s not in their interests that wars end at all.

This is that “military-industrial complex” that former President Eisenhower warned us about so many years ago. His concern was that the U.S. would become bogged down in an endless series of “forever wars” that do nothing but transfer wealth to the already-wealthy.

Keeping that military industrial complex well-fed is the reason why so many politicians have such a boner for war. Not only to keep their wealthy sponsors happy, but to keep tax money and jobs flowing to their states, which just happen to manufacture war materiel.

“I’m a turkey!”

Steam has a native Linux client that uses a custom version of Wine called Proton. It handles all the emulator settings for you. All the Steam games I bought in Windows run just fine under Linux. And amost all my older, non-Steam games (like Deus Ex or Giants: Citizen Kabuto) work great under Wine.

I hate commercials that have NO connection to the product they’re selling. At all. Like, somebody literally wasted your company’s money to make a video about nothing.

Showing the benefits of your product is step 1 of advertising. Creativity is dead.

If the game is Elder Scrolls, then I beat the OS by waving my Wabbajack and the Windows OS turns into Linux.

The “Fire Island gay” look is not for me. (Aka Midriff-baring T-shirts and Nut-Hugger shorts.)

Well, thank goodness it wasn’t 27,000.

That would be way too much!

Paisley. It was really popular pattern in the late 1960s / early 1970s in curtains and furniture.

I’m currently into 3D factory building games, so I would recommend Techtonica or Satisfactory.

When you take file sizes into account, EBooks are the most high-density entertainment you can bring. Followed by old-school games, then music, then video.

Stop simping for billionaires. It’s embarrassing to watch.