It seems around 75% of Lemmy is pointless or is trash garbage.

People on here don't want discourse and dialogue, they want passive entertainment that does not require brain power. A number of people on here clearly have a child's mentality or stunted personality.

Does DDG still have the same upward trend that they used to before Brave caught on?

Native Firefox? I would suggest using Librewolf or Icecat.

Are Honey's and Mello worth the price? I went to Cartems once and I never went back because of the price.

I'm concerned that fresh made donuts, no pre-mix, are becoming a rare special treat due to how expensive they're becoming. At a certain point the taste of something does not justify the cost.

For a small setup, are you talking about doing an ITX build?

Since you have a wider range of requirements or purpose for the build, I'm concerned that you might have to decide between economical and productive.

In the cheaper side, I would suggest a Ryzen 7 5800x3D, at least 32GB of RAM, and RTX 3080 from last gen. If you can spend more money for new hardward features, I would say 7800x3D and RTX 4070.

If you were doing heavy development work and naking money from your computer, I would suggest the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950x and 64GB of memory/RAM.

OpenBSD, and FreeBSD are 2 excellent operating systems. Zero closed source bits in the kernel or system files.

BSD does not do distributions, each one is their own operating sysyem with their own developers, different source code for each.

Minifree is between double to triple the price of the same laptop on eBay. Libreboot is strictly an ideological matter, it doesn't help with privacy if software installed isn't configured a certain way and also what software is installed.

BIOS is not the bacldoor is. Also, if you don't build your on router, you can't garauntee who your router is sending packets to. Also DNS makes a different. Libreboot does not provide the protection think it does.

It doesn't help that Libreboot laptops are at least 10 years old. Those are some low resolution LCD screens compared the LED and full hi-def.

A T570 on eBay or where you can find it.

You should look at benchmarks in 2 weeks between the 770 and 4060 after it is released. Your 3600 is going to hurt performance if you buy really high end. In today's money, the price of the 4060 matches the original price of the 1060 6GB.

Beyond a new GPU, I would suggest building a whole new computer. If I can partially guess, I would say the 4 core i3 121000 would beat your 3600. I do know that the 12100 matches the 6 core i7 8700K.

One option is buy the best GPU you have extra money to spend on, and then in a year buy build a Ryzen 8000 system when those get released and then put your new GPU in your next system.

To give you an idea about performance, the 4060 Ti beats the 1080 Ti.

You can live at ease with not having any debt weighing on you.

I was thinking maybe you could do a 4 core i3 13100, B660 board, 16GB DDR4, and RX 7600.

That would beat a 8700K and Radeon 580.

I've been using SimpleX for at least 6 months as a full replacement for both Session and Briar and I have gotten a few people over SimpleX.

Now I only use Signal and SimpleX exclusively, nothing else to talk with people.

Both of those statements stand on their own, one does not cancel the other, so there is no contradiction.

In fact, one statement holds true with the other.

How old is your system? Would it not be inexpensive enough for you to build a new cheap system for a performance upgrade? What hardware do you need to have a fully functional system working again?

I use Austici because users can have 5 alias addresses, you can delete one and create a new alias, but has a limit 5.

Nobody has my true address, my main address, 100% everyone I email or give out my address are all different aliases. If one alias gets too much spam I delete and make a different one so spam doesn't reach my inbox.

Why you said makes me think the number of votes is wholly irrelevent.

What is interesting or helpful is entirely subjective, it's personal opinion. What is considered misinformation is entirely subjective. That makes me believe the voting count on a post means nothing for indicating the quality.

Considering how any majority of people typically react emotionally rather than have humility and respond with consistant logic, it seems personal opinion on a mass scale is an unreliable gage for quality of material.

If AMD wanted to get real serious real fast about rapidly improving drivers, could releasing Radeon driver source code under AGPLv3 help get mass development and fixes for drivers, while at the same time due to the license make the code untouchable for nVidia?

Anyone serious and fully commited to privacy does not use cell service, they use a VoIP, which requires an app to connect to VoIP provider for calling and messaging, so Phone and Messages can not be used anyways since it's not cell/mobile service.

True North https://tnc.news/2023/06/19/bc-rent-homelessness/

Receiver 2 looks very interesting. How do you find it to be playing with a floating gun?

I could see you being interested in Unrecord.