With games, they’re are various categories like:

1. Demos I want to play
2. Demos I’ve played and my opinion on them
3. Demos that I might want to play, but I haven’t decided yet.
4. Games that aren’t worth putting on my Wishlist, but that I’m not prepared to discard entirely.
5. Games from my wishlist that I’m unsure if I actually want to play and that I need to sort.
6. Games that I haven’t wishlisted but might want to.
7. Everything to do with itch.io because their launcher and storefront is garbage.

In terms of manga, I use a database site but there are limitations.

1. There are some I’ve read one chapter of and saved for later, some I’ve read nothing of but want to read, and some I’m reading but put on pause because of the release schedule.
2. When it’s time to start a new manga, I normally pick out more than one. When that happens I bookmark the list and go back to it after I finished the previous one.
3. There are manga from before I started using a manga database and haven’t sorted.
4. There are manga that I’ve marked as “want to read” but for various reasons am reconsidering.
5. There are oneshots I’ve read on Reddit and saved.

As for why I don’t self-host, I don’t really want to buy more disk space in this economy. Also (and more importantly) a collection of pirated manga is far harder to backup than just a database. In terms of preservation, I have so much new stuff to read that I’m not too fussed if something goes away.

I generally try to avoid American, but I’m not so strict about it that I check the origin on the games I play (most of the time you can’t find that out anyway). I also buy them on Steam anyway, because Linux support.

I’ve already swapped out basically everything American of mine, but as time goes on I’ve been thinking of narrowing my target. The companies I’m mainly focussed on are below:

• Amazon
• Tesla
• Microsoft
• Apple
• Google
• Facebook
• Netflix
• Disney
• Boeing
• The gun companies
• The car companies
• The computer chip companies
• Visa/Mastercard (if that were possible)
• The banks (if they even exist in your country)
• Exxon/Chevron (I’m dubious on promoting a local community oil industry though)

I still use American streaming services (currently Amazon Prime) but I do the thing where you subscribe for 1 month and then unsubscribe for 2 years.

The reason I’m boycotting is to undermine America’s power. I don’t think boycotting indie games made in America does that. It would weaken their currency but the effects are marginal. The real impact comes from buying alternatives until they get to a point where they can compete, and in the arts America already has that competition.

I have my bookmarks in folders and subfolders, so I can find them when I need to.

In terms of what my bookmarks are:

• 2300 Video game bookmarks
• 800 Manga bookmarks
• 600 Music bookmarks
• 750 YouTube videos to watch
• 250 YouTube videos saved because they were good
• 150 News articles and blog posts to read
• 120 Books, movies, and TV series
• 100 Various privacy services I need to switch to
• 600 Old bookmarks that I moved into a folder instead of deleting

The core theme here is that I refuse to use built-in tracking mechanisms. I don’t want vendor lock-in so I use bookmarks instead to manage them (which Qobuz makes very difficult).

I tried it. If I remember correctly it had no bookmarks, no dark mode, no adblock. Those three features are essential for me in a browser. Especially bookmarks, I have 6500 bookmarks.

I donate $50 a year to KDE and GrapheneOS each.

Gonna donate $50 a year to Libreoffice and maybe CachyOS starting June.

Gonna donate the same to the Servo browser if it becomes even remotely usable.

Used to donate to Mint but stopped because I don’t use Mint anymore.

There’s already Trinity.

Don’t know what their stance is on Wayland but it exists.

That way you won’t miss too. I get why men pee standing up, but I still don’t understand why women do it standing up.

KDE themes are scripts. A coding mistake in one resulted in someone’s file system being erased, it would be quite easy to distribute malware via that method.

At this point it’s pretty clear America will support Israel regardless of what we say or do. Does free speech even matter anymore?

There are plenty of reasons why themes are bad. They’re a security risk when downloaded from the internet, they’re often not updated alongside the desktop environment causing bugs, and maintaining support for themes is difficult.

But what GNOME does is eliminate choice, not themes.

The Australian government will do nothing of note, because the scapegoating of the prime minister by the press wasted all of the government’s political capital that they were saving up for some big swings.

Combustion engine cars become basically irrelevant outside of the US, Canada, and EU. Because if a country doesn’t have a domestic car industry then cheap Chinese ev’s are just better. In Australia you can see quite a lot of them.

For a big swing, I’m going with Trump dying. He’s pretty old, does not live a very healthy lifestyle, and he’s got some pretty rabid followers. I’ll hedge my bets and say Trump or Musk.

Climate change worsening is a given.

I’m going to predict that the forecasted warming goes down thanks to Chinese production (like every year).

There are profile pictures?

You can technically buy a Chromebook instead. Apparently they kick up a real fuss if you try to install your own OS on it though, Not that I’ve tried.

Too long didn’t read, but Uruguay I guess.

Except they only help you with the install IIRC, so basically useless.

I use Lingodeer. It’s pretty good.

I do want that extra security. But I’m disappointed it can’t be automatic in Secureblue (even though I’d be using it as explicitly not intended).

I did some research and I see what you mean. Apparently using the Flatpak of a browser disables the sandboxing between browser tabs. It doesn’t necessarily make my device less secure but it would make my browser less secure. Firefox officially supports it’s Flatpak so it would be good if I could find some sources more reliable than various forum posts but all-well.

I’m iffy on having to manually configure my security but if I’m using Firefox on a distro that does not support it then there’s not much I can do to avoid that.

Thanks for your tips.

I ain’t sweaty enough to Arch. I run CachyOS on my desktop but I want my laptop to be more secure in which case Arch would be my only option. Overall Fedora (and it’s derivatives) are the only distros that meet my expectations for a distro.