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If you think the American companies do anything different you’re not paying attention and simply believing the propaganda.

Honestly, no. You don’t need any sort of Facebook replacement.

My wife and I had ceramic tile installed in our kitchen when we remodeled our house. Didn’t like it so four years later we had it torn out and had oak flooring installed. Couldn’t be happier. High quality hardwood floors are really durable.

My 60th birthday.

“I’m in.”

Try kagi. It’s paid at $5/mo., but you get 300 searches to try it out.

My wife is there.

She’s gotten two knee replacements this year and is scheduled for a hip replacement before the end of the year. And last night I reminded her she’s been meaning to go to a dermatologist.

I commend you, but it’s a losing battle.

It really grates on me when I read “sike”.

When I was younger and drank more I did this, and it sure helps with hard liquor.

When you’re drunk that big glass of water can be hard to get down, but do it anyway.

Right? Look at Mr. Moneybags over here that can afford toothpaste. I use hand soap as toothpaste and I’m glad to have it.

Kagi has lenses.

Anyone who uses this should be considering switching to Linux though.

I was just reminding you that many of us have jobs or software tools that preclude us from using Linux day-to-day regardless of how much we might like the idea. Having a more comfortable windows experience has value to us.

I’m locked on windows because of very expensive embedded systems dev tools. Give people some credit for having considered linux; not everyone can switch.

I’d love to switch to linux but it just doesn’t make sense for me.

I’m an embedded systems developer and my proprietary toolchain is windows only. Additionally I use several Adobe product routinely (illustrator, photoshop, premier).

Sucks.

I use kagi and really like it. I find it worth the money as a business owner and software dev. I feel I’m more productive.

You can set up your own “lenses” which are targeted, customized searches and then use a keyword to invoke them. Pretty handy when you routinely search for obscure topics.

Well I think it does, because they don’t know literally everything about us yet. But they will one day if we don’t fight back.

As Doctorow points out, ‘Saying security and privacy don’t matter because you have nothing to hide is like saying freedom of speech doesn’t mater because you have nothing to say.’

It’s a very short-sighted view. Those rights will be taken from you if you don’t protect them.

There’s a reason Primus’ Les Claypool mentions the 7 Layer Burrito in “Wynonna’s Big Brown Beaver”.

The shit was good.

McDonald’s Beef tallow fries. One of the great losses of my early life.