I’m not bothering to dig it back up, but I thought I remember something like it was based on a policy when a verified user changes their logo. The verification was put back once reverified. Stupid, yes, but if policy it makes more sense.

I’m not big on defending Xitter, but IF this is uniformly handled, this is the least of our reasons to get torches and pitchforks after them.

To stay away from the influence of google’s business practices and their influence on chromium.

If that’s the case foxnews would like cut out most of the challenge. I’m not old enough to have adult children yet but I still have a hard time grasping news channels are entertainment venues.

News used to be actual news done by reporters. It had credibility and a degree of respect. This shift has been near impossible for my parents generation

Must be. I had difficulties with it at one point, and I ended up living at the URL from some search results and was able to figure out what it wanted. I thought the missing slash might have been your issue.

Try:

https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s

I think Qwant is as close as you’re going to get unless you can set up searchxng to do what you are asking.

Now, you might be able to get better diversity in results if you use a vpn to move to more diverse or contrasting cities.

I often find news sources external to the US to be very interesting insights to what we see rammed down our throats.

Daily driver: Qwant

Niche searches: kagi

Not privacy friendly— Ai: perplexity.ai

I wonder if this is part of the reason Chevy dropped Android Auto and Carplay. Can’t lose out on data collection.

Ahh, got it. That’s a feature I never used.

Do you need an email for it? I thought you could still use it without being logged in.

My bad, I guess I failed reading comprehension today.

Glad it got identified and worked out well.

I’d recommend not picking up any snakes you can’t identify.

Does eastern Michigan have anything venomous? Copperhead maybe?

I used perplexity.ai to get this which gives a couple sources you may want to consider.

According to various sources, including DistroWatch and Tecmint, the most popular Linux distributions in 2023 are: Linux Mint Manjaro Ubuntu Debian Fedora Zorin OS Solus Elementary OS Arch Linux CentOS

This must be very regional. Additionally, I’d bet a lot of this might depend on industry.

Someone who’s hourly might have fluctuations in their hours over a set period of time, like a month, or even week to week.

Seems like a number should always be coupled with a unit.

I didn’t click the link, it felt scammy. Did I pass?

I’m with you. I’m a seasoned newbie, and I’m ok with config as long as I can find something to help me get through it where I’m. It completely lost and the guide isn’t 30 pages of gibberish that only makes sense to someone helping build and maintain the source/branch.

I do love the familiarity of a gui as it lets me be “lazy”.

That said I started on Ubuntu, didn’t really like gnome, tried kububtu, was meh on it. Then got to dislike cannological. I’m currently using mint, and have tried several distros as a vm. Fedora and Debian are 2 I’m trying to understand better.

That said arch and gentoo both seem like distros beyond my skill set, and I think I’d struggle with them as I don’t feel like the communities align with my needs. I feel like I should get better at stripping out what I don’t need in my distro before I start bare and build up finding only what I need.

The cool part of Linux is it’s kinda hard to go wrong with the choice as a platform. Picking the distro has been a harder choice to find what community aligns to my needs. So virtualbox, ‘kinda’ to the rescue.

Let’s be sure to do what we can about this…nothing.

The whole thing is sick. We’ve strayed so far. The theme of cruelty, corruption, and disregard for the human species shall continue till we destroy ourselves.

Pick a deity, any deity…would they be proud of us?

*Most religions to my knowledge have some form of kindness embedded.

And for those more secular, how do we stand back and nod, thinking we’ve done any good?

This seems to be going as planned. But why?

Just like cable tv!

I feel this way about many sites and services. There are a few that are on the fringe of worthwhile and not willing to pay for. If it did work on paid models only, I wonder what would happen to growing services that don’t have the user base to exist on paid subscriptions alone but may be or are better alternatives to the current paid dominant providers. I.e. would this create a higher barrier of entry in a market than exists today, reducing competition and strengthening market monopolies?