do you think i want to use facebook or linkedin or the likes?

i use them with an adblocker. best balance to me.

i think ive seen that place on youtube before

kde has some impressive windows themes that are REALLY convincing

exactly why i dont mind blocking ads.

not a business model i wouldnt mind not supporting and companies i wouldnt mind not depending on.

and it is used for nefarious political purposes that are undemocratic at best.

ublock origin has a few lists named "annoyances" or something that arent enabled by default.

enabling them gets rid of almost all of the popups and i cant live without it anymore.

this includes cookie nags and all the miscellaneous stuff they throw at you.

we pay with our data already

the internet is insufferable without it, and many people (including some IT people) seem to not even mind it. it blows my mind.

elementaryos is made for that sort of thing, its quite simple and friendly and you need to poke around it to get it to even be able to do more 'advanced' stuff. its among the most polished DEs ive seen design and user-experience wise.

and it is still linux so you can disable or otherwise restrict their user account from anything you don't want them meddling with. like the settings app and stuff, try it out on a VM and you will get what i mean.

oh its based off of ubuntu lts so its solid

thats a loss tbh

yall need dark mode extensions on yo browsers

i think id rather have the slightly worse option than to bother with accounts for every desktop app

cannabis does make you question authority and being told what to do

only when its illegal, because you start asking yourself what else they lied to you about.

i dont think this is an effect from the drug itself. the 'creativity' you get can go either way tbh.