With the new sustainability laws in EU they have to offer 5 years of updates from the sale of their last unit.

The Ecodesign Regulation lays out minimum requirements for mobile phones, cordless phones and tablets to be sold on the EU market to ensure

• greater resistance to drops, scratches, dust and water
• use of more durable batteries, capable of at least 800 charge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity
• clear rules on disassembly and repair, requiring manufacturers to supply key spare parts within 5-10 working days, and for at least 7 years after the product model is no longer sold in the EU
• longer availability of operating system updates, at least 5 years from the date the last unit model is sold
• fair access for professional repairers to the software or firmware needed for repairs

https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-durable-energy-efficient-and-repairable-smartphones-and-tablets-start-applying-2025-06-20_en

Could it be that it checks for updates?
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_updates/blob/?file=updates.json&branch=main

Yeah, for some reason I thought that html.duckduckgo.com was free from ads, but when I temporarily disabbled uBlock origin I see that isn't the case.
I didn't mean to insinuate that no js means no tracking, I meant that the only tracking on ddg (clicking ads) was gone. I was wrong on that count.

What are concentrating photovoltaics? One of the ways to increase the output from the photovoltaic systems is to supply concentrated light onto the PV cells. This can be done by using optical light collectors, such as lenses or mirrors. The PV systems that use concentrated light are called concentrating photovoltaics (CPV). The CPV collect light from a larger area and concentrate it to a smaller area solar cell. This is illustrated in Figure 5.1.

Also, from the article - 33.6% efficiency in real-world conditions:

A 60 cell-lens prototype was studied for a year. In "real-world" conditions, CPVs achieved up to 33.6% efficiency. The 36% mark was posted at 167 degrees Fahrenheit. The prototype showed no signs of degradation, according to IE.

They allow you to search with js off, which means no tracking on their domain. Quite a big difference.
They can't stop tracking on other sites, quite obviously.

Is Google Analytics and embedded tracking news? I have a whole list of untrusted domains in noscript that has to do with analytics from google, cloudflare and others.
DDG works without javascript, so I run it without.

Why do you believe duckduckgo is a controlled opposition?

lemmy doesn't have it yet but piefed does.
You can access lemmy from piefed so by moving there you can do it.
https://piefed.social/post/102787

I've had smooth sailing both with Fedora GNOME and Fedora KDE. And it's another "common choice" with good enterprise support thanks to Red Hat, just like Ubuntu and all their baby distros.

Yeah, if the user can't verify the truthfulness of the LLM generated text then it has no use as it can't be trusted.
I'd say the thing LLM is best at for me is giving me a starting point, in the same way that it is easier to fix someone else's writing than it is to write something from a blank slate. Oh and copilot is generally up to date on where in Microsoft 365 Admin you find an option right now, compared to all the outdated official and unofficial guides out there.

Why use apps instead of a browser and why hop?
There are still fully functioning phpbb forums out there if forums are your thing, not to mention that the fediverse can just be forked and remain in existence if someone tries to steal it.

Nowa Huta: The city that went from communism to capitalism
Once a failed post-WW2 utopia, Krakow's Nowa Huta neighbourhood has found a new lease on life and is slowly emerging as a tourist destination.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220112-nowa-huta-polands-utopian-socialist-city

but will it give me any serious issues such as freezes or full on crashes?

More probable that you will get low fps or that your strategy game turns into a crawl if the CPU can't keep up.
I doubt you'll be able to get a new cpu that fits your motherboard socket though, so unless you find one second hand you'll end up replacing the motherboard and your memory too if you try to upgrade.

It depends on how you choose to play it, I guess. For some it's definitely a management game where you go from space port to space port to trade. Others play it as a pirate hunting game where they fight space pirates and sell the loot and that's just the sandbox elements, there's also storylines and missions you can run. :)

Endless Sky is a nice space sim
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.thewierdnut.endless_mobile/

Might wanna look at njal.la
Unless you're planning on distributing cp or anything like that it should give you the layer of privacy you want.

... are the wedges the only non fried food in this picture?

How about boiling them tatoes?

Or simply pan fry them with some butter?

Anyways; 1. Wedges, 2. Waffles, 3. Shoestring with surprise sweet potatoes > The rest.

Many comms moved to piefed, are they counted in that graph?

Yeah, and with mobile apps maturing I've actually seen people handle their whole business from an iPad. They had a consultant do the heavy lifting though so they just had to audit and send the pre-made invoices and payments in their iPad.

I find using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/? makes it simple to grab streams url and download them using yt-dlp.