Important to note that Qwant still uses the Bing search index everywhere except for France and Germany, where they use the Staan search index, which is being developed together with Ecosia.

I’m sure the more people use it, the faster they can expand, though.

Using it from Finland myself, quite satisfied with it even with this Bing nonsense. Only have to use Google for VERY RARE cases.

I prefer the 7 second boot time of BaseOS+NextUI.

Just check their Wikipedia page.

Startpage is owned and operated by Surfboard Holding BV, which is majority owned by System1, an American internet advertising company.

non-US search engine (start page)

Startpage is owned by an American advertising company.

Try Qwant or Ecosia. They’re working together to develop an independent search index (Staan) and it’s already in use in France and Germany.

You wouldn’t download a Bill Gates.

The fact that this has 62 upvotes is making me lose brain cells.

This happened in Finland. The guy in charge is Petteri Orpo.

Edit: And his asshole cabinet of ministers.

Very likely, considering which political parties are in charge.

I call this government coalition “persrukous” (ass prayer):

pers: persut, short for “Perussuomalaiset” (Finns Party, far right)
ru: Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue (Swedish People’s Party of Finland, centrist liberal, will do anything the coalition wants as long as everyone is forced to learn the language of the 5% linguistic minority, it’s always been like this no matter who the governing parties are)
ko: Kokoomus (National Coalition Party, centre-right/right wing liberal conservative, your typical neoliberal demons who only care about making the rich even richer and punishing the poor for existing, they lead the coalition)
us: uskovaiset = the religious = Kristillisdemokraatit (Christian Democrats, right wing, they’re pretty much NCP but they love Israel even more and hate everything)

I have a TP-Link router.

It’s great, but the first one I got was broken right out of the factory, so this is a warranty replacement for the first one that I got.

Slap a second screen on it and call it Nintendo Dual Switch.

That’s great to hear! Did they offer any lingonberry jam though?

Same in Finland!

I’ve never tried the British stuff, but our blood sausage is pretty good. Goes very well with lingonberry jam. :)

Scandinavian

Half of the countries listed are Finland and Estonia lol.

Veganism is not a diet. I think this is the source of your confusion.

I don’t understand why you are so against using the accurate and more flexible term “plant-based” instead of “vegan”.

Why do you insist on bastardizing veganism? I don’t get it. Like I told you earlier, labels matter and this just breeds confusion on what’s vegan and what’s not. People already are confused about veganism because of nonsense like this. Just call it “mostly plant based” and call it a day.

Have you heard anyone say “almost halal” or “almost kosher”? No?

This is just as ridiculous.

“Veganism” is total abstinence from animal products.

Something is either vegan or it’s not. It’s completely binary. Either it contains animal based products or it doesn’t.

Food that is mostly plant based is way better for the environment and animals than your average meat and dairy based meals, but it’s just not “almost vegan”. Labels have meanings and it should be like that so there’s no confusion.

Monster Racer for the PS1.

It’s a beyond horrible Crash Team Racing clone, but it hit the spot when I was a small kid and wanted to play a racing game and wanted something that’s not CTR. I only had a few games at the time.

Oh, and it somehow became a somewhat popular meme in the retro Playstation speedrunning community, so that’s a bit funny. :D

They have already done that! :)

Mess around with a mod pack like “Feed the Beast” or “All The Mods”, they have so many tech mods that you can do crazy automation factories with. You can probably get some inspiration from them and some of them are open source so you can check how the APIs work together in practice (just don’t copy them directly, please).

I probably have thousands of hours in modded Minecraft, just doing automation and upgrading my gear. Never cared that much for building :D

Do any of your mods have potato knishes?