All these servers are self hosted, and every server admin can set any image banner they want. The instance I host has two simple banners I like that aren’t anime https://4get.lurx.net/
I agree with your analysis on open source software though
Good! I’m glad it works well
Every server owner can set their own banners. Freedom you know, my instance has minimal banner https://4get.lurx.net/
Yup, I’m not sure how accurate this is since I’ve never used SearX but I find this funny, from the creator of 4get. 
And not that I’m aware of
Hey, man, I’m right there with you. I’m not planning on buying a new car unless I’m 100% confident I can disable or remove all of its networking and spyware services. I’m just stating that it’s stupid that the average American will buy a new car and then say this shit about these cars just because they’re Chinese.
Honestly a Chinese car spying on you probably has less negative impact on your life vs any other brand that does business with American companies, of course assuming you yourself are american and live in America.
Why would I give a fucking shit? Every new car is a piece of shit spy ware device that collects and sells your data. Honestly, I’d rather china have my data than a fucking capitalist company or America. At least china won’t do anything to me, our government is more of a threat to the average American than china is.
ProtonVPN is no log and so is Mullvad I think. Basically it’s mostly reputation, some also pay for outside audits of their systems so they can more effectively boast.
No log vpns probably do cooperate with authorities, but the fact that they are no log means they don’t provide anything. They get a warrant for logs and identification, they comply and send a letter “we have no logs, or way to trace the identity of a user”.
Generally speaking, if you’re paying for a VPN, then you should be paying for a provider that is no log. Free VPNs, you get what you pay for, which is nothing. So you don’t really get any security with that.
Drink occasionally, I vape cannabis flower often. I don’t use all that much though, less than 0.35 grams a week usually.
I used to go fucking ham on the weed, but I quit at the beginning of this year, and had the most incredibly horrible withdrawals I could imagine. Literally didn’t know you could get withdrawals from THC so bad. I had to take a week off of work. I was dizzy to the point of vomiting if I moved my head at all for two weeks, miserable fucking experience. Anywho now I try to indulge responsibly and take breaks often.
Never smoked tobacco, I would hit my friends nic vapes in high school mostly just try try their flavors, they made their own juice and were big dealers In the school selling it haha.
Why do I get high? Well I suppose I really enjoy the feeling of being in an altered state. It feels different, it feels good. It also helps me a decent bit with OCD symptoms most of the time, although I’ve read online it makes symptoms worse for some people.
You are correct, it is just a privacy respecting meta search engine! I self host my own instance, another thing to love.
4get is wayyyyy better imo, here’s a list of many instances. https://4get.ca/instances (my instance https://4get.lurx.net/)
Edit: because I think it’s funny as well, here is the creator of 4get self made comparison between 4get and searx
The key thing is Linux is free and open source, free as In eat shit and fucking die government fucking pigs.
Its just so good, played it a fair bit when I was a young teen and picked it up again a couple years ago and haven’t stopped playing 8 - 20 hours a week. Best game ever imo, never gets old.
Easily my favorite game when I was in middle school and high school, and it still holds a very dear spot in my heart and memories from that era of my life. Excited for s&b
I remember seeing the teaser trailer when I was a preteen and was so hyped, took like 10 years but when it did come out I had covid (which was lucky for me because I didn’t feel that sick and I got paid leave for 14 days to play the game). Played on PC from day 1 and beat the game In a week or so, it wasn’t that buggy imo. I loved the story and I encountered minimal issues during my play through, and only one that caused me to need to reload a save.
Other favs probably rimworld, gta 4, stanleys parable
As the other guy said, double edged sword. Asbestos was fucking great, and is still used for certain things because it’s great. The poor interaction with human biology was the other side of the sword.
An aside, I just pulled a fuck load of vinyl asbestos tile out of a house a year ago and while it wasn’t actually all that dangerous because I took proper precautions it’s sorta scary anyway cause of the poor interaction thing.
Theres evidence they use the very popular tool cursor that many devs and large companies use.
The law absolutely does not apply to everybody, and you are well aware of that.
“Vibe coded” you just made that up didn’t you, because you don’t like llms. I don’t see anything in the article about “Ai” and this service has been operating for 2 years.
I play ~10 hours a week and have for the past 3 years, it’s no worse than any other game with voice chat in regards to slurs. Often times people will vote kick as well if someone is being a incel racist.
Although I do remember playing on election day and it was worse, so you might have picked a bad time to try playing again.
I sorta dig Frame™