Thanks! Yes this is one reason I am trying out BSD - Because it is different. The background politics are also different, and may be an important reason to switch. Finally though I have to be able to play Minecraft.(Yes this is a major design goal)
KDE - Was Gnome, but I switched for a reason. I, uh, forgot the reason.
I stumbled upon a Dell Optiplex 760 in a local flea market for $20.00 ! it runs FreeDOS now really well. I have yet to find a driver for the CD/DVD drive but then I don't use that much.
My ASUS Vivobook has a slider that blocks the camera physically. It is bright red so I can easily see it is closed.
Well, I am not in Australia, but so far my AT&T Uverse has worked well. We don't need the VOIP or TVOIP we use our cell phones and don't watch TV so it's all Internet.
The central office at the other end of that fiber probably has emergency generators too.
I use a small band-aid - no gummy glue on the lens!
In an area power outage, if one keeps the router alive via UPS does the router have anything to talk to? In my case I am "Fiber to the node", there is a box on the sidewalk at the other end of the block that receives the fiber, then copper to my house.
... and hardware.
One of their choices should have been: "This survey is exactly the reason I am going to a different browser. "
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spoiler
I am not a teapot.
I followed that, but it never did work. I don't remember the error the Xorg threw when I attempted to initialize it. I will probably try OpenBSD next.