I’ve been pretty happy with Kagi and they have a decent privacy policy: https://kagi.com/privacy

Seconded, breezy weather is amazing. I’ve installed it from source with obtainium.

Credit for this goes to David Lovelace, and it’s not even the most ridiculous variant he made: https://www.umop.com/rps.htm

IIRC didn’t it start out as XBMC, a media center you put onto the original Xbox?

I’m also interested in this project. Looks like there has been some recent activity: https://www.opensourceecology.org/2024-product-release-of-seed-eco-home-4/

You should contact them about getting involved! I did see they had jobs a while back for a project.

When companies start to focus too much on growth usually they start to lose sight of their values and greed begins to take over. That said I just checked their ad policy and while they do physical ads, it’s still a pretty reasonable policy.

They still won’t be showing up on random YouTubers videos like Nord

One of the things I liked about Mullvad was that they didn’t advertise. Has this changed recently or did they always do outdoor ads?

Try it, you won’t regret it! I find myself not even reaching for Google anymore.

Check out the Ninja Creamie for something almost exactly like the Pacojet but much more affordable.