Give it a try and let us know.

Mostly searx, then ddg, and google maps, wikipedia and similar direct searches.

I think the solution is the same.

Any of them would be better than someone who is openly bought and paid for by the next biggest world power.

Reduce war and not try to force mass vaccinations? (Scary)

That would definitely be the day I stopped checking in. New reddit looks a lot like what they changed digg into, and is about as useful.

Not to mention whatever is running secretly in the modem’s computer.

I totally agree. At the very least it provides the opportunity for debate or the option to just agree to disagree.

I don’t know anything about the Q stuff, but I certainly qualify for how many characterize the first two. I don’t get any value out of name calling and meanness, but it is important to freely voice my opinions regardless of whether anyone else agrees. I’ve never understood why some people have such a problem with that.

I have lived my whole life having opinions that not everyone agrees with, it really isn’t the kind of thing that causes “PTSD” for crying out loud.

I think most of them I’d be using on windows as well. Like blender, gimp, krita, librewolf, libreoffice, thunderbird, virtualbox, etc… etc… etc… Although it was 15 years ago I had switched to mostly open source applications in the years prior to eventually switching to linux entirely.

If we’re including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols