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Thinking about making the switch and need some advice.
  • Does this mean I am unable to use mint cinnamon or does this link show how to install for mint cinnamon?

    Apologies for my confusion. I am still learning the basics and appreciate the help.

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    Thinking about making the switch and need some advice.
  • If you want to install additional software: If you come from Windows, you might be familiar with visiting websites of software then downloading a setup.exe/msi from there. That's NOT how you install software on Linux. On Linux, you first look if there's a package available for your distribution

    This is where I have gotten lost. Trying to install my vpn.

    My vpn does not work with cinnamon apparently, and I did not want to use the app in the software manager that is not even associated in any way with the actual vpn provider.

    I am going to check out the forums next. (This is why having a techy person you know would be helpful!)

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    Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market"
  • I would happily pay to download Firefox if they removed telemetry, ads, analytics. Security updates could be free, feature updates could have a small fee. Something similar.

    There is a way to fund Firefox without user data and ads. Will it be as profitable, who knows, because quite simply, the vast majority do not want to make it a reality and loose what profit, control, or power they currently hold onto.

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    Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market"
  • In parallel to our existing consumer products, we have the opportunity to build a better infrastructure for the online advertising industry as a whole. Advertising at large cannot be improved unless the tech it’s built upon prioritizes securing user data. This is precisely why we acquired Anonym.

    Catering to the ad industry is backwards thinking, imo. Securing user data is easy enough if you do not collect it to begin with.

    Imo, the fact companies have changed the narrative in favor of advertisers and data collection, proves only profit matters, not the people.

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    Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025
  • It still boggles my mind how paying for ads became acceptable. Not only is the company making money from the advertisers for the ad space, they now get to make money off the population for viewing the ads. This is a crazy world we live in.

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    there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites
  • I’m pretty sure that Amazon, google, etc do far more nefarious shit behind the scenes in terms of tracking/fingerprinting you and collecting data to sell

    You even get to pay more and more for this privilege…smh

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    How the hell do I sign up for facebook?
  • Run, run far away and forget you ever heard of fb!!

    The more this invasive behavior becomes the norm, the worse off ALL of us will be.

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    When someone list "Star Trek" as their favorite television show.
  • For most people in this community, TNG is your parents' star trek. It began airing in 1987, 37 years ago. TOS is your grandparents' Star Trek, at the earliest.

    Amazing how you do not think too much about your own age, until you see it staring back at you in black and white!

    By this community’s standards at least I can say I did Live long. The Prosper part, not so much.

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  • I have recently updated my android app to Version 2.10.0. I have noticed my upvotes are now blue instead of purple like they were previously. I have not changed my theme.

    Is there a setting I have perhaps missed? I appreciate any assistance.

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    thedisneyblog.com Final 'Doctor Who' 60th Anniversary Special 'The Giggle' to Air December 9

    Final 'Doctor Who' 60th Anniversary Special 'The Giggle' to Air Dec. 9, 2023, and it will be the Fourteenth Doctor's final adventure.

    While not much is known about the 60th anniversary finale, this last episode may ruffle the feathers of dedicated “Doctor Who” fans, according to showrunner Russell T Davies.

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    What are some of your past favorite Tennant episodes or moments? !

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