Jean-luc Peak-hard

Their old version with the ‘random’ option is the best way to find random, small, niche sites.

https://old-search.marginalia.nu/search?query=browse%3Arandom

so many better Google alternatives out there:

• https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
• https://ecosia.org/
• https://searx.space/ (pick any of the 50+ instances)
• https://www.qwant.com/
• https://www.startpage.com/

Check out CryptPad.org, it’s:

• Open Source; so it can’t be taken away from you should the org cease to exist.
• Self-hostable; although you can use or pay to use other people’s instances.
• Collaborative; with real-time editing like Google docs
• Federated; so you can collaborate with others whether you’re using a self-hosted instance or using any other server.
• End-to-end encrypted: The server admins can’t see any of your data.

Only downsides so far is that the UX is a bit slow when first loading documents and there are no mobile apps.

EDIT: Forgot to add the important par, they recently added support for OnlyOffice in the browser, which to me, was a pretty big deal.

Bought a 20 TB external for ~$270 a few months ago. It’s now $400:

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09VCXWPQG

Can I coin the term imagineomics?

conservative parents are dangerous. to society and their own children

If these features interest you, that’s great! But you’re not the average user. Congrats tho. Librewolf may be perfect for you.

DRM is one. On Windows it doesn’t auto-update by default (maybe that’s changed now?). I recall you have to whitelist some sites to work properly. It’s just not something I can set up for my parents and expect most/all websites to work without intervention.

people (not calling you out specifically) keep suggesting Librewolf like it isn’t driving around a city in a tank. it gets the job done, sure, but most people will not tolerate its faults. Suggest something more in-between like Waterfox at least.

Suggesting Librewolf is like asking people to browse the web via Tor. it works, sure, but the inconvenience will make most people give up on gecko-based browsers and give into Google/chrome via Brave or the million other chrome-in-sheep’s-wool browsers.

Let’s recommend viable alternatives: https://www.waterfox.com/