that's awesome, non-profit organizations will treat tenants with far more respect than corporate landlords who are only focused on maximizing profit!

I had issues with it in the past, where certain search engines would go down, so often that it was more of a hassle that just using duckduckgo. I remember bing and duckduckgo being engines with the most uptime for me, so I didn't see the point in using it at the time. Which instances work well for you?

this is awesome! I'll have to test this out because gaming with the daughter has been limited to games that support it natively. I wonder if this can work with emulated games too?

I use duck duck go mainly, but more and more I'm using yandex. I heard about kagi, the privacy-focused but paid alternative, and what it really comes down to is how much do you want to trust others with your data?

This article made no mention of browser extensions like ublock or privacy badger, the latter being a track-blocker exclusively.

everything you say is true.

But thinking that cities will redesign their streets without public pressure? I doubt it.

comparison is the thief of joy

Just a hunch, since technological advancements seem to hit the public realm much faster in places like China, in the cities especially. I don't know what the laws are like there, but I've heard rumors that there is less government regulations for technologies that can benefit the general public, like drones and automated metros. Oh yeah, and how could I forget about the robots they show off at conventions, to take the place of receptionists and other customer-facing positions.

Minecraft is the most popular best selling game of all time, and the single-player mode is still being updated. Granted, many people play on multiplayer servers, but still.

At the very least, you can still pirate it and play cracked multiplayer with friends.

I made the mistake of buying the game year ago, and bought a bunch of DLC at 50% or greater sales, and now the sunken cost fallacy has taken hold on me, and I still want to buy more . . . . (at least I'm broke so I can't right now hehehaha)

Overcooked, Liars Bar, Ready or Not, Schedule 1, Elden Ring, Jackbox, etc . . . . . All work great as multiplayer titles on linux. There's a great trove of fun games that don't require kernel level anticheat because the the community of players isn't as toxic.

it'll definitely get the greenlight in countries like China before anywhere in the west, I believe

Oh no worries, I am writing a Cisco networking exam in about a month, so I've actually studied subnets and addressing a good amount, but I don't mind the refresher!

I was just speaking more generally, in terms of programming, where integers and strings are different data types, yet you can store numbers as a string, which I always found interesting.

interesting . . In my head, I think of ip addresses like just decimal values or integers separated by periods, but clearly a decimal value isn't processed as such by a computer. To think that IP addresses are simply strings is pretty interesting to my amateur mind, because for all my life I thought of them as technical computer jargon that isn't the same as what I used to think strings were: words!

Okay, I'm learning networking but have no idea what this means

My guess is that, whoever wrote the article on intellinews (the author isn't mentioned by name, red flag #1), was referencing the date they saw a related social media post, which prompted them to create this alarmist bullshit for ad revenue.

In this false article, they directly mention 'The development, which was confirmed by Spanish marine scientists at El Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, has triggered widespread alarm among climate scientists due to its potential to accelerate global warming and destabilise weather patterns worldwide.'

So yes, several of the authors in the Rising Surface Salinity article are from Institut de Ciències del Mar, like Estrella Olmedo and Verónica González‐Gambau, for example.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500440122

Dubious article that misrepresents the study it references, and even relies on 'social media posts' for certain claims. What a joke.

Could be. I ride on the sidewalk on roads like the one in this post, but my head is on a swivel to make sure turning cars aren't taken by surprise.