4th state: I don’t care, I just use AI to write my code.

Idiotic position in 2024.

I sure as hell don’t. I feel like I have no time for anything. I have only two weeks vacation a year. I have sick leave but can only use 3 days at a time without having a doctors note. I am considered having a good job for even having those “benefits”.

Pretty much the same here. the storage to quality ratio isn’t a big enough difference to make it worth it to me for anything over 1080. 720p is noticable but I’ll still use it no problem.

second gluetun, easy to use and configure.

Damn, also would break ublock I assume?

Torrents yes, always VPN. If you’re doing the debrid route, not required but personally I still do.

I am a big fan of mullvad VPN as they take no info from you to create an account. Can pay with crypto. No name, email or anything tied to their service. Used proton, nord and pia in the past.

Totally not a link to mass gravel.

Yes.

I’m gonna be honest. I never have done that till today. Wow… So much easier. Incredible.

Exactly what I do… I keep thinking it’s too good to last. I still download things if I know I’m going to rewatch them a lot.

Searxng.

No different than any other project the PM/PO team cooks up. Tons of work for no user base.

Never used brave, I think DDG is actually a pretty decent search engine overall. I use it as my backup to searxng and used it primarily for years now before switching to searxng.

Google results work fine for me on my home instance:

If it works for you… I agree with the general sentiment of “if its free you are the product”. However, I see kagi come up so often around here that I feel like it’s some astro turfing. I tried it and was not impressed. SearXNG is by far the best search engine I’ve used in a long time and the best part is I am hosting it locally on my PC, traffic is going out a VPN. You get the privacy and the best results possible since its a meta engine using many different engines.

On second thought, let’s not go to Texas tis a silly place…

That dataset is gonna be scary if they don’t filter it out a ton.

I use a VPN all the time primarily because I don’t like the idea of being a data point for profit.

An ad tracking company can determine your approximate location based on your IP address. They may also be able to identify your Internet Service Provider (ISP), device type, operating system, and browser information. Some companies might even use more advanced techniques like geolocation or machine learning algorithms to infer additional details about you, such as language preferences or demographic information. However, it’s important to note that not all tracking methods are accurate, and privacy concerns exist due to potential misuse of this data.

I got this while on a VPN, I’d assume reddit is trying to accomplish:

• Blocking malicious attempts from anonymous Ips
• Blocking Data Scraping
• Forcing users to divulge their ip information for tracking purposes.