This is purely based on my experience but somehow I think that Pop OS works better on laptops. System76 is a laptop manufacturer so it makes sense they'd optimize for that, I suppose. You may want to give that a try
Nano ftw ngl
So you're asking to remove all symbols and flags everywhere?
I'll take a reductio ad absurdum for this one:
Let's remove all symbols and flags that represent groups, like crosses, pride flags, football team flags everything that isn't on a national scale.
So all you would have in the end is your national flag. Great! Problem solved. Oh, no, wait. What about people that don't have the nationality but are in the country? They look around and see national flags everywhere and feel terribly excluded. Okay, let's get rid of national flags, too. Then we'll just have the United Nations flag. Although, no, some countries aren't part of or recognized by the UN. That won't work.
Okay, no flags then, fine.
But wait, what about signs? If you have a sign that uses the western alphabet, which consists of symbols, you exclude everyone that doesn't feel represented by these symbols. Imagine being a Japanese person in the US. Only western letters, so excluding.
Okay, let's get rid of writing then.
I'll just watch TV. It makes it difficult that the remote is mostly blank but I don't want to be excluding. Hold on. There is a logo on my TV!
This is so excluding, I don't feel like part of that company, the TV is excluding me.
Let's get rid of brand logos too, then!
Your point is absurd. Also, you can't possibly think a pride flag is as bad as, say, a cross. The flag is a symbol of acceptance, the cross a polar opposite.
I'm on Liftoff
Edit: Now I'm on Sync
Hell yeah. PiHole is a godsend
First of all, if you want to get into Linux, DO IT! It's truly awesome, I love it. Just get Mint, throw a Windows skin over it and nobody will notice, trust me. Honestly, it's incredibly rewarding.
When it comes to browsers, I now have the best setup I could think of: LibreWolf. It's a hardened version of Firefox. It doesn't use TOR and all websites are accesible. I use Startpage as a search engine. Granted, it can be a bit slow but it gets great results and there is a button that lets you open websites via a Startpage proxy. LibreWolf by default erases all browser data on exit so for logins I use KeePassXC password manager. It has an awesome addon which automatically fills in login fields, it can do TOTP and autofill that, too. It's pretty great.
For mobile KeePassDX is great
He's the kind of guy that looks at a Fairphone and says "if you compare this to a Pixel, the Pixel is faster", talks about how important repairability and sustainability is, vows to mention it in future phone reviews and then proceeds to never mention it ever again but instead keeps on saying how great the new iPhone is.
I'm not kidding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkmzDwgvqQM
I kind of agree but I also kind of don't.
I thoroughly enjoy well produced content by the likes of Veritasium, Captain Disillusion, Mark Rober, Lemmino, Potato Jet and more. I do see where you're coming from tho
There still are people doing it as a hobby and some even consider it a hobby despite the high production quality. Those channels are harder to find, though and that is kind of sad. I can't help but wonder what would've been if we hadn't commercialised the web.
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