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I've been using https://startpage.com for more than ten years and can't fault it.

I had a SailfishOS phone for four years; an Xperia XA2+. The operating system was wonderful, and being able to run Android apps when there was no alternative was a good way of fill…

This is a very nice library. At a first reading it seems complete (but did I see summary/detail - I don't remember). Bookmarked for further investigation. Congratulations and thank…

I've been running Linux Mint exclusively as a daily driver for fourteen years. The software company I started used it for everything from development to marketing to accounts. We h…

https://www.else.co.nz/

I have a 2017 Dell XPS13 that's been hammered as a developer laptop and is still going great guns. It's on its third battery, and I've just replaced the screen. I bought a newer on…

Yes, I still use FreePascal for utilities, libraries and console apps. I write these in Lazarus on Linux, and run them on local machines or (for some console apps) on our Intel Syn…

I live in Aotearoa New Zealand and have only one subscription: to the Otago Daily Times https://odt.co.nz . It comes a close second in annual "most trusted media" surveys, after Ra…

I switched from Google to StartPage twelve years ago and have seen no need to change. I have trialed Kagi, and would move there if Startpage became unreliable. I've not used any LL…

I will no longer travel to or through the USA. I'm a white New Zealander, nearly seventy, have no criminal convictions, but will not even contemplate putting myself at the mercy of…

USD10 a month, as long as it's going to maintaining and developing the browser, not for any other purposes.

I don't directly use any Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta or Amazon products and don't have accounts for any of these. I have one (almost always) off-line Mac used solely for music produc…

Framework laptops are great, and would be my first choice if I were looking for a new work computer. I've previously run Dell XPS13, Lenovo Thinkpad. There's no shortage of good di…

I wrote my own; Lyricist, to integrate rhymes, synonyms and antonyms without having to switch applications or browser tabs. It's a small, not very fancy, web page you can run anywh…

I've recently retired. I get up between 0630 and 0700 and do fifteen minutes of core strength exercises. I create a new handwritten task list for the day, then have a long, slow br…

I have email going back more than 25 years from various software; in most cases an export dump when I stopped using, say, Pegasus Mail or Eudora. Since I started with Thunderbird I…

YouTube would die. Although it generates a large amount of revenue, YouTube's costs are substantially higher. It provides Google with engagement and a prime source of user data, so…

I have a CardDAV server on my NAS and sync contacts across all my devices. I've been using this for more than ten years now with all types of phones, tablets and computers, and it'…

For twenty years I've used early church fathers, one device for each letter of the alphabet. So Ambrose, Basil, Clement, Dionysius. When a device is retired, a new device can take …

100%. And I only buy phones with these features.

Tons. A few recent pieces are documented on my site, at else.co.nz/code ... but there are also plenty of utilities as well. I've written "radio station" music software that used te…

My most commonly used cables are stored on the wall using 3M removable clips (they work like lightly sprung clothes pegs). The remainder are coiled and tied, and stored by type in …

Prrivacy is important. I kept using my Blackberry Z30 long after its demise had been signalled. I then moved to SailfishOS on a Sony XA2+, which I ran with until late 2023. Unfortu…

A personal website built with markdown and javascript. A website generator to keep that personal site up to date. A utility to download and parse Electronic Programme Guides to sch…

Exactly. And day to day, ruthless prioritisation.