do you think i want to use facebook or linkedin or the likes?

i use them with an adblocker. best balance to me.

i think ive seen that place on youtube before

exactly why i dont mind blocking ads.

not a business model i wouldnt mind not supporting and companies i wouldnt mind not depending on.

and it is used for nefarious political purposes that are undemocratic at best.

ublock origin has a few lists named “annoyances” or something that arent enabled by default.

enabling them gets rid of almost all of the popups and i cant live without it anymore.

this includes cookie nags and all the miscellaneous stuff they throw at you.

we pay with our data already

the internet is insufferable without it, and many people (including some IT people) seem to not even mind it. it blows my mind.

elementaryos is made for that sort of thing, its quite simple and friendly and you need to poke around it to get it to even be able to do more ‘advanced’ stuff. its among the most polished DEs ive seen design and user-experience wise.

and it is still linux so you can disable or otherwise restrict their user account from anything you don’t want them meddling with. like the settings app and stuff, try it out on a VM and you will get what i mean.

oh its based off of ubuntu lts so its solid

i think id rather have the slightly worse option than to bother with accounts for every desktop app

yup they are tightening their grip again

i used to buy plenty from aliexpress. its generally pretty damn good.

you can still pirate games without getting malware, even if a little late.

its always been for the clout in the scene. but ive been pirating shit for a couple of decades now, no malware so far.

they can make intricate folding devices now.

but making them repairable is somehow fucking impossible.

unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups

or you straight up pirate it.

when i do a lot of them are fixed by just making it pretend to be chrome

or the us, isnt it easy to just get a regular gun in there?

i hope you find it. if its a common problem like “hey its a specific component or set of components that always blows out on these” you are probably in luck.

they can pass emissions if properly configured. they can perform exactly like the original ECU if tuned well, if a tiny bit better.

they don’t do OBD2 tests in my country though, only the pipe emissions test, so im not sure about that. saving a working original just for these tests is an option.

at this point your only reasonable choice is a programmable ecu.

you could maybe get a cheap one and a usable tune for that price? idk.

more sad than funny tbh, the internet definetly broke old people