I think the Austin Allegro would like to challenge you for a car with absolutely zero redeeming qualities.

You could try https://2fas.com/ open source mobile application with browser extensions and cloud sync for backups.

Or www.bitwarden.com password manager is also open source and for a small “premium” supports 2FA for mobile/desktop/browser.

Mullvad DNS or libredns

Has the death sentence been a deterrent for any crime?

Pineapple and apple go well in pasta salads. Again not at the same time but the added sweetness and texture helps enhance the salad.

I had a similar issue with Mint on my Latitude 7480, ended up using Fedora where everything just seems to work.

Best advice I can suggest is always use a live USB because if something doesn’t work there it won’t after install either.

For Huawei , if that’s the case why did US not target all Chinese manufacturers and only the one that, at the time, was becoming the most technologically competitive one.

As for EV the argument regarding takeover as a wartime industry whilst maybe true not it still smacks of US protectionist practice rather than a genuine security fear.

They did the same to Huawei and lots followed. This has nothing to do with security and all to do with preventing China’s leap ahead of US as a global economic technology powerhouse

If I even tried to plug a USB into my laptop security would be down on top of me like a ton of the proverbial … the same way that the only true way to be secure is don’t plug into the internet the only way not to piss off corporate is don’t f*ck with their stuff.

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Good to hear, I’ve not had any issues so far. The only “niggle” I’ve had is when pairing my Bluetooth devices I’ve needed to turn Bluetooth on and off for each pairing bit once done they’ve reconnected fine.

Thanks. Finally after Mint didn’t recognise my network adaptor I tried Manjaro (everything worked great, but I don’t think I’m ready for Arch) so ended up on Pop_OS … everything works so I’m going to stick with this for now.

My weekend project will be install mint for my first flurry into Linux.

I’m going to set it up for some light gaming and media streaming.

Running on a Dell Latitude 4980, long term hoping to learn enough to set up a home jellyfin server.

This for me has been a work changer:

https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/

Can open in tab or sidebar. Honestly, can’t recommend highly enough.

Headquartered in the US so I wouldn't guarantee it.
This was against Google specifically but I would imagine it would hold up against any US based search engine they felt someone was using.

Vivaldi if you want a chromium privacy experience. Not fully open source but works well, has desktop sync and a good tablet UI which is my biggest reason for not using FF.

I only have a tablet and a phone and until FF creates a viable tablet UI I'm staying away.

Voyager app

I also use Thunder but voyager is my go to app. I've tried most of the others but always end up back with voyager.

If you view those sites without adblock you'll probably find it's filled with ads DailyMail I'm looking at you.

Not really and some would argue that from a local network perspective HTTPS is preferable.

The main difference is that HTTPS routes through a standard port so gets "lost" in all other Https traffic whereas TLS uses a distinct port so whilst it's encrypted you would be able to see at the local level that you're using DNS over TLS but not what you're doing.

I use two across different devices.

base.dns.mullvad.net

noads.libredns.gr

Both offer DNS over TLS and both are privacy focused which was why I decided to use them.