You’re comparing someone’s net worth to someone else’s disposable income, which isn’t a fair comparison. What you are saying still holds true mostly but it’s best to compare apples to apples.

Be the change you want to see in the world! Even if it’s something small you could help things be better.

I think a lot of the negative energy comes from folks that lack experience, and maybe are stuck in an office wanting to work from home. It definitely has its upsides, but it isn’t all sunshine and rainbows!

I feel the exact same way after working from home for the last five years. The disconnection and pointlessness along with the reduced physical activity and terrible company corporate culture have actually resulted in me seeking out a job in an office again.

I think it may be better for mental health and physical health, depending on the company and their culture.

This reminded me of the anime From The New World (Shinsekai Yori). A pretty interesting watch if you’ve never seen it before.

Well you just convinced me to give it a shot!

I’ve really been enjoying Kagi. They seem to have a pretty good privacy policy as well. However Searxng is probably the best for privacy since it’s self hosted.

I just installed Pop!_OS 22.04, after finally ditching Windows 11 entirely. I picked it because it seemed easy to use, well suited for gaming, and popular with good support.

So far, everything has been great!

I’ve been pretty happy with Kagi and they have a decent privacy policy: https://kagi.com/privacy

Seconded, breezy weather is amazing. I’ve installed it from source with obtainium.

IIRC didn’t it start out as XBMC, a media center you put onto the original Xbox?

I’m also interested in this project. Looks like there has been some recent activity: https://www.opensourceecology.org/2024-product-release-of-seed-eco-home-4/

You should contact them about getting involved! I did see they had jobs a while back for a project.

When companies start to focus too much on growth usually they start to lose sight of their values and greed begins to take over. That said I just checked their ad policy and while they do physical ads, it’s still a pretty reasonable policy.

They still won’t be showing up on random YouTubers videos like Nord

I checked their policy, the physical ads are new

One of the things I liked about Mullvad was that they didn’t advertise. Has this changed recently or did they always do outdoor ads?