Yeah, maybe time to go on a news diet. Just read my local paper online (one that’s reputable IMO) and then found something else to do. Not putting my head in the sand, just read the bad news once, processed it (or tried to), and then moved on to something else.

Post-Snowden and post-Windows, I also started with Fedora, and, well, it honestly didn’t go all that well (this of course was my experience! If you like Fedora and it works for you, then 👍! Not here to dis the distro!). Actually, I think it had more to do with GNOME than with Fedora, so it depends on which desktop environment you’re using; when I switched DE to Cinnamon all my problems seemed to vanish into thin air. And from there, I just went straight to Mint and have been happy as a clam ever since and never looked back.

In my experience, running Windows as a VM inside Mint was overall much better than dual booting, which can really get to be a pain after a while (and also I think that the Windows partition will sometimes overwrite the Linux part so be careful!); it sounds hard, but it isn’t—if old and senile Erinaceus can do it, you can too! Always happy to provide recommendations.

EDIT: Also (and again not to step on anyone’s toes), I never had good luck using Wine; this is perhaps because I was trying to run Photoshop and other heavy, Adobe-type things in it (this was before Creative Cloud). Other programs might work differently with it, but in every case for me, a VM has worked better. I don’t play games (I know, boring), but I sometimes wonder if it wasn’t for people’s dependence on Adobe products that Windows might finally start losing a lot of market share and eventually end up on the rubbish heap where it belongs.

RHVoice worked for me.

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I had a feeling that that was the case . . .

Ok, this is as far as I got with the Buddhism lemmicon; I’ll try to work more on him later.

I’d like it if his eyes were closed and he had droopy earlobes . . .

Do you need to go back? What exactly are you going back from? Is it not serving your needs? There are plenty of alternatives to Google services; I’d be happy to provide some suggestions, if you’d like, having been through this ever since The Snowden Affair.

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That reminds me, I think I remember reading on the FreeTube page that they recommended using a VPN with it (this was before the current issues with Mullvad); anyone know why? Are FreeTube users in any danger of being hunted down by Sundar Pichai & co.?

Much to reflect upon! Thanks to @Slab_Bulkhead@lemmy.world (you aren’t by any chance serving on the Southern Sun at the moment, are you?) and @zedcell@lemmygrad.ml.

Yeah, same here! I have to turn off Mullvad when watching FreeTube which is definitely annoying.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ ?

https://archive.is/OqKnx

Going to go through the troubleshooting guide on iFixit on the remote chance that I can salvage this thing…

Thanks to @sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works and @limerod@reddthat.com. The GrapheneOS page recommends getting at least a “7,” but I can probably sell some more plasma and the rest of my Precious Moments™ figurines to get a more expensive model. The 5a5g did indeed have a headphone jack, but I guess anything newer than that doesn’t have one. Which means, I guess, earbuds/bluetooth (what Mrs. zdhzm2pgp calls “ear cigarettes”)? I’ve never had these for anything; how well do they work? I was sort of under the impression that the sound quality was not great, but that was also a long time ago.