The internet as a whole was much better when websites and services were not designed to cater to kids.

I used to run into updates breaking dependencies, like Gimp not working after an update and such but since switching most my programs to be Flatpaks I had very few issues.

Running any decently sized instance quickly turns from a hobby to at least a part-time job. A thing that you can’t just quit whenever is not a hobby and we should be mindful of that.

As a Firefox enjoyer it really feels bad to keep Brave around just to use Teams. Not that I have any problem with Brave just, if a billion dollar company can’t be bothered to make a native Linux app that’s fine (it’s not) but could they at least support the major browsers?

I gave an effort to DDG for months and I really wanted to like that but it hasn’t been that good for me. Image search especially is really subpar, but also in general searches a lot of times I had to resort to using !g after messing around trying to actually find what I wanted.

I don’t like Google but I have to admit that their principle product is above the competition right now. I hope it’ll change but honestly, with adblock if Google search is the only service I’m using from them and it’s working out I’m kinda okay with that.

If they start plastering their results with even more ads tho, I’ll definetly jump ship in a heartbeat.