You could try out Linux Mint¹, they're Ubuntu based and disable Snap by default².

1. https://linuxmint.com
2. https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html

It's a pillar of democracy to protect the autonomy of the people.

One of the most controversial changes of Chrome’s MV3 approach is the removal of blocking WebRequest, which provides a level of power and flexibility that is critical to enabling advanced privacy and content blocking features. Unfortunately, that power has also been used to harm users in a variety of ways. Chrome’s solution in MV3 was to define a more narrowly scoped API (declarativeNetRequest) as a replacement. However, this will limit the capabilities of certain types of privacy extensions without adequate replacement.

Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest. We will continue to work with content blockers and other key consumers of this API to identify current and future alternatives where appropriate. Content blocking is one of the most important use cases for extensions, and we are committed to ensuring that Firefox users have access to the best privacy tools available.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

WARNING. Everything other than the last paragraph is kind of rude and opinionated, so skip to the bottom if you only want practical advice and not a philosophical rant.

First of all Free Software don't need paid developers. We scruffy hackers create software because it's fun. I have a strong suspicion that the commercialization of Free Software via the businessfriendly clothing "Open Source" is actually creating a lot of shitty software or at least a lot of good software that'll be obsoleted to keep business going. Capitalization of Free Software doesn't have an incentive to create good finished software, quite the opposite. The best open source software from commercial entities is in my opinion those that were open sourced when a product was no longer profitable as a proprietary business. As examples I love the ID software game engines and Blender. Others seem happy that Sun dumped the source code of Star Office, which then became OpenOffice and LibreOffice, but then again companies like Collabora are trying to turn it into a shitty webification instead of implementing real collaborative features into the software like what AbiWord has.

..and back in the real world where you need to buy food. Open Source consultancy, implementation of custom out-of-tree features, support, courses and training, EOL maintainance or products that leaverage Open Source software is my best answer. See Free Software as a commons we all contribute to, so that we can do things with it and built things from it. You should not expect people to pay for Free Software, but you can sell things that take advantage of Free Software as a resource.

For your photo needs, you could try out RawTherapee and Darktable. They have builds for Windows and MacOS.

Come to the dark side, Sarah. We have cookies.

-- Linus Thorvalds^1^

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/15/374

That'll save us. Anything in there about not assigning a public IP to your cofee maker?

Okay, but that would have made a shitty joke wouldn't it?

Hmm.. I don't know maybe it's fine as a joke.

Marginalia Search perhabs.

Also these are worth mentioning:

• Mojeek have their own index. The results are occasionally a bit of a mess, but they are very open to input and have an account on Mastodon.
• Infotiger have their own index and the results are good.
• Alexandria which use the Common Crawl index.

In addition to GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT you also need to set GRUB_DEFAULT=saved.

You should probably follow these instructions from the Fedora Wiki: Reinstalling GRUB.

With the risk of breaking the internet, I see no reason to fight someone who is wrong.