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ironically, much of the domestic industrial policy Biden signed into law was intended to do exactly this but Trump reversed course because corrupt reasons

Congratulations, you played yourself.

I use Qwant sometimes but it’s sourced from Bing. Searx is better if you can self-host. Kagi is better if you can afford to pay (but you asked for free).

“Everyone’s saying it.”

I did the same a month ago… Still no regrets.

Tied my left hand into a pretzel trying that one

Ah, yes. Tailscale. That’s a pretty obvious solution that I hadn’t considered… Thanks for the recommendation.

do you mind sharing a basic explanation about your setup? i’m looking at doing something similar with TrueNAS and NextCloud.

DDG isn’t the paragon of privacy. Try Qwant or StartPage.

And that baby should have been aborted

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Those Broadcom wireless cards gave me PTSD. The only way I got one of them working was compiling the raw firmware blobs into my kernel on a Gentoo stage 3 install… I shutter imagining administering that system as my daily driver. It was a good learning experience but I’m not cut out for that level of effort just to surf the web, open some documents, and play DOOM.

A lot of firefighters are volunteers. I have no idea about this case but maybe they would try to use that as a defense, if so.

Side note, it’s utterly baffling that such an essential function basically runs off of charity. What a joke.