Yeah, in the end I managed to make it work. Quite cool. I wanted to set it up in such a way that all EU SEs get a tick every time I search for something but sadly it seems Startpage is giving me issues.

Yep, this is the explanation. People are still trying to rationalize “why do this in months, its all gonna collapse!” not understanding that collapse is the actual point.

Have you tried talking to customer support? I hear they are quite responsive.

I 100% agree. Whenever these companies start with their own projects I immediately get suspicious that their goal is to enshittify down the line with vendor lock-in.

The only reasons why I’m seriously considering a Tuxedo are 1. European brand and 2. Double SSD.

Not a lot of laptops seem to be offering double SSD while being Linux compatible, so my hands are kinda tied.

Doesn’t Migadu work for calendars? Its a bit finicky, but I used these instructions and it worked for me.

Not sure about contacts though.

Wow. They offer that? Do you know how it works?

Good alternative? Hum, I’ll have to disagree with you there.

Firstly, Heliboard it is closer to Gboard than to FUTO, which is closer to Swiftkey. Its actually the reason why I went with FUTO, I need that split keyboard.

Secondly, prediction on Heliboard is just not there. Like, at all. It was absolutely maddening to use, it would predict completely unrelated words even when using custom libraries.

And it actually got worse over time because it started saving nonsense words like “GRT” or “hafe” directly onto my personal dictionary. At one point all I would get was nonsense word after nonsense word. I had to abandon it, it was borderline unusable after a certain point.

Like the commenter above, I too want to sponsor FOSS projects as much as possible, but the offers simply aren’t quite there yet.

What issues have you found with FUTO? I’m using it RN and beyond Swype being kinda finicky, it works flawlessly.

But yeah, not FOSS. The FOSS keyboard alternatives are indeed atrocious, especially Florisboard which oddly enough seems to be GrapheneOS’s favourite option for a future standard keyboard.

This is unironically great copywriting. Either that or chatGPT.

I wonder what OP does for a living.

Seriously. I’d be ashamed of being a Trump supporter and show my face in public. So embarrassing.

And even more so now that it’s pretty clear that he’s barely sentient and Musk is the actual poorly hidden shadow president.

I have never received a DM from another user on lemmy despite being more active than OP.

I’m not subscribed to many communities. Maybe linux and BuyEuropean and not much else.

I doubt that’s the reason for the spam.

All excellent recommendations too. Hats off to Proton!

Well, would you say Boost blocks images by default? Because Thunder (the front end I’m using) doesn’t.

Yeah, that’s what I’m concerned about. Getting random CSAM, or Gore, or some f’ed up stuff like that. Images should at the bare minimum come censored before clicking.

I didn’t even have the option to click any placeholders, it just automatically loads the whole thing (but maybe its just the front-end I’m using).

Right? I think Lemmy is way more conducive to conversations than Reddit.

My country has daylight savings and I still went to school at night, so that point is kinda mute.

Welcome, there hasn’t been a better time than now in a while.

Elom Musk has been pressuring Reddit’s CEO to force mods to accept links to hia fascist platform.

So I can only see Reddit become worse as the years go on.

searxng which is a decentralized search engine similar to the fediverse, it lets you customize search providers and i have it set to show ddg, presearch, qwant, and startpage

How do you set it up like so? I couldn’t find such settings.

Anyways, Consider whether using that is the best thing we can be doing for the EU… Using anonymous search engines instead of a local one that will at least profit some and pay taxes here.

Probably nothing would happen to you. They might correlate your IP address and ban you, but that’s likely it.

I mean, that’s probably the worst thing that can happen to your email, lol. Consider how much your online life depends on access to your email.

I kinda get it for people who want to compartmentalise their email.

I personally have 1 email I only use for banks and other important logins, and then a second one that is a bit more general use.