If you care about utmost privacy, you probably want to use Kagi, then generate privacy tokens and move them to a different computer and search from there. It’s pretty much guaranteed privacy. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html

Kagi is also just the best search engine around at this point, at least that I’ve found. Worth paying for privacy in my opinion.

Yeah anyone who used Skype at the time immediately knew what went wrong

Here’s the thing I’ve discovered over the past two months. You can block every keyword you can think of involving politics and you will still be subject to them in memes that don’t happen to mention the keywords, comments where the blocking isn’t effective, and friends and spouses mentioning them, if not more. Politics pop up in every context. Video game YouTube, programming subjects on hacker news, pretty much every single subject at this point in time is inundated with politics.

For a long time I was the most informed person in my social circle. I can’t deal with it anymore. I blocked every mention I could think of and yet I still think I’m just as informed as everyone else in my circle, at least to a certain extent.

You can’t avoid it. So block everything and you’ll still be informed.

And now you switch to Firefox. The better browser for years at this point.

please go ahead and explain how it’s incorrect. You’re gonna want to explain how you can easily watch twitch streams from people on other continents in full 4k and how you can pirate 4k movies through VPNs on other continents as well. If what you say is accurate then those 4k downloads wouldn’t show up in 4k and pirating through a VPN literally wouldn’t function at all.

absolutely not… you can travel literally a thousand miles without hitting a router if you’re traveling transcontinental, whereas if you’re in a dorm in college and you live right next to an T1 node you can be hitting 15 different routers because your college actually uses a virtual network provider from the other side of town.

Hops absolutely does not correspond to distance in any reasonable sense. Youtube also buffers to avoid that transcode quality issue, so no you’re getting the quality you ask for, but the bitrate might be different depending on your physical internet speed. The distance has jack shit to do with it.

latency and ping has absolutely nothing to do with video quality. the quality as it’s received by the client is going to be the exact same. You’re not losing data in the process. it’s not like a container ship that’s traveling across the ocean and for every 100 miles it travels it loses a container. If you’re getting buffering then sure, maybe you’re calling that ‘quality’ but it absolutely is not what anyone else means when they say quality.

Wut. Quality has absolutely nothing to do with distance to the cdn server. That makes no sense whatsoever.

I think it’s linked in the Mlem community? I actually can’t remember lol. Maybe it’s on the GitHub???

Mlem (TestFlight version)

I’m confused what you’re asking. Google opens sourced the pebble code, which they acquired from their purchase of Fitbit, who acquired it when they purchased pebble. Repebble is an open source project that has been trying to keep the original pebble watches working since Fitbit shut pebble down.

Don’t go blaming your inability to have empathy on adhd. That is in absolutely no way connected. You’re just a rude person.