Why have you not done a basic search to understand the objectives of the various distros and posiilities, before posing these questions?

Go you, personal and professional integrity matters and are so often sacrificed on the alter of expediency or personal need/greed!

I use LibreWolf on Linux as my primary browser, but have recently installed Helium as a backup browser for rare times where chrome is required for a specific site, or for testing.

Helium seems pretty transparent, even giving the option in setup not to use their enhancement services, or self-hosting those same enhancement services, or turn them off if you want to.

Helium currently supports MV2 extensions and has Ublock installed by default, though it is hard to say how long they may maintain MV2 support, given Google ditched it.

While not my daily driver Helium does seem to get rid of Google monitoring, has solid base settings and security defaults, includes Ublock by default which I think is absolutely necessary, and has some nice use and customization features.

Just installed Owncast, so townsfolk can ride my G-scale Polar Express via an onboard livestream, as part of a revamped lighting and projection mapping festive season show.

While I was at it I also added Kokoro for TTS.

Thought I would spice up Jellyfin for the festive season, so am trying out the Jellyfin Enhanced and Home Sections plugins.

For me it is not a cycle, just a pragmatic implementation of tech catching up to my very specific needs.

Linux has been my primary OS for decades, but because I have edge case tech interests I have maintained a dual boot configuration.

Some of those edge cases have been possible, but also marginal in Linux, at times breaking some key aspects of my personal needs, so in the Unity game engine some required plugins (yes I am seriously looking at GoDot but have decades of investment in Unity), and in video tasks for 3D projection mapping projects, needing some custom scripts to work around codec issues.

The greatest challenges have been in relation to combining Sim games, motion simulation and VR integration.

I am again currently taking another run of that complex integration at the moment, tweaking CashyOS to meet my video editing and 3D projection mapping needs, while also trying to wrangle various proprietary Windows programs to run sim games, use 3rd party programs like CrewChief, and most importantly include telemetry driven haptics and motion simulation.

My Linux nirvana is complicated by some very specific but personally very important edge case needs. I am hoping that current Wine and Proton development has progressed to the point that I can finally totally ditch Window$ forever…fingers crossed!

Or perhaps questioning the obvious flaws of the UN.

Not only did I read the article, what you have quoted further confirms the misleading title, the source is anonymous and there is an interpretation of intent, not direct or open admission.

Could the CCP be responsible, absolutely, is there clear evidence of admission, rather than international diplomatic posturing, not at all.

If you believe there is a clear factual open admission and ownership of guilt by the CCP then please point me to it.

Some leaders are not so subtle in international interactions when making threats, even in the full glare of public media.

The title is misleading, rather ‘Two anonymous observers in secret Biden talks claim Volt Typhoon has been responsible for intrusions into vital critical infrastructure’.

Click bait headlines and journalism are as much a threat to democracy and independent critical thought as the CCP.

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What browser are you using and can you please post a site with embedding that does not work for you.

I have Librewolf, Ublock set to medium mode, libredirect Redirect Type set to both, Embed Frontend set to Invidious but with no instance selected.

Most sites with embedded youtube have ‘Watch on Youtube’ bottom left and you can just right click and select Redirect in librediract. Some don’t have that but most allow right click where you can select the url that can be pasted into FreeTube.

You can set libredirect to use FreeTube.

I would like to suggest an alternate perspective, that digital media be beholden to protocols not platforms.

In other words lets focus on the drivers of competition…most evidence suggests that piracy goes down in response to easily accessible and affordable market conditions.

Yet another corporate self-serving move that should highlight the need for de-googling, but with a monopolist controlling information flow how many will notice, and if they do, how many will recognize there are counter options, even if made difficult by the dominant web player…I would like to say it is blatantly time to break up big tech, but realistically I can’t see that happening, given regulatory capture of US politics, on both sides, as an outside observer.

I guess for me, as neither Israeli or Palestinian, the first clarification required is why the IDF is ‘interrogating’ UNRWA workers in Gaza, particularly in circumstances where the IDF is known to kill aid workers, be they UNRWA or unrelated international relief workers. Is this a quirk of language or something far more sinister, particularly when the interrogator is also being disguised.

Secondary to that, if UNRWA is subject to HAMAS interference, conducted by force, not cooperation, why is it that under the new law, UNRWA will not “operate any institution, provide any service, or conduct any activity, whether directly or indirectly,” in the sovereign territory of Israel. In effect, UNRWA’s activities in East Jerusalem will be terminated and the body’s powers will be transferred to Israel’s responsibility and control." To me the new law disrupts required aid, contrary to humanitarian law, rather than tackle claimed HAMAS actions of interference.

The third missing element is unrestricted independent transparency and verification, which as I understand it the IDF does not allow. Hence IDF claims can’t be regarded as creditable, but rather more likely propagandist, given the control the IDF exerts, including preventing external independent media access and the killing of independent journalists.

I appreciate the /s, the sad fact is that we don’t need AI to figure out a ‘solution’ for climate change, we already know how to do that, the issue is the lack of political will to curb emissions, which is not something AI can fix.

There are lots of choices, but personally I would go with Linux Mint as something likely familiar and packaged with pretty much all the basics for the use case you outlined.

Perhaps I am incredibly naive, but for me a “Forever mouse” is something you buy, own, and have control absolute over!

No, a software or hardware KVM lets you use the same keyboard and mouse across multiple devices.

Have a look at software KVMs, for a similar functionality.

A simple usb KVM should do the trick of easily switching between the two.