u/joannatenjou97

I've spent HOURS to find any single ethical search engine that doesn't either have AI or is affiliated to google/microsoft/etc and genuinely there doesn't seem to be one. They're all plagued by horrible bs: startpage, ecosia, duckduckgo, yandex, presearch (what were they thinking with the doppelganger feature?!) and the list goes on...

So at this point does it even matter which search engine I use? What if I just keep resorting to Google without an account and block all ads and AI with extensions? Would that stop counting as boycotting?

I've had a couple of Radeon GPUs in the past with Windows and they sucked a lot, they always crashed midgame and at some points I even remember the drivers disappeared out of nowhere and I had to reinstaller, which made me go full nvidia since a couple years ago. Now that ive switched to linux im starting to wonder if those same issues are also common here because now I would like to stop supporting nvidia for a lot of bs theyve done in recent years

I've been messing with KeePass but found it a bit obnoxious

My main issue with Google Password Manager is knowing they have my information stored in their servers; I would assume UC stores your passwords locally (after all it's ungoogled), but is that actually how it works? Is it really safe?

I must admit that, frankly, I don't concern that much about hackers stealing my data, I just don't want big private companies having it and doing whatever they want with it

I just ran into a seemingly common issue with Gigabyte motherboards in which the PC wakes up immediately after putting it to sleep, and found the solution would be to "disable gpp0 as a wake up source" which I've done already, but it does leave me thinking: what exactly is gpp0?

I couldn't quite find an answer online so I figured to ask here since I really appreciate knowing exactly what I'm doing whenever I fiddle with my system, possibly just out of curiosity and a desire to acquire more knowledge:)