I have the same situation. DDG has a feature where you can write "!g query" and search for "query" on Google. I use that as a fallback whenever DDG fails to yield good results - it's super easy!
Honestly, good security instincts by your dad though. If you're not technical enough to understand the risks, you probably shouldn't be connecting to random servers
youtubevanced.gg is definitely some sort of malware. It redirected me to a "your computer is infected" scam.
The only official one is neither of those sites, it's http://revanced.app/. Anything else is probably a version patched with malware.
None, he gave up after Apple blocked them once.
There were actually a couple attempts, but it's kinda in Apple's hands... I think he was hoping he could generate enough public outcry to force them to not block it. You can also still access it now, if you have your own mac.
Further, Beeper is just a re-skinned Matrix client with the Beeper company hosting the open source bridges between services
It's their own client, not just reskinned, and it has a bunch of new features designed to make cross-service nice and simple. Also, the bridges ARE open-source, but the beeper company wrote a few of them and decided to open source them.
Don't let Migicovsky take your money and mismanage it again.
He refunded everyone who bought a subscription when Apple blocked it. Beeper main is also free.
You could've made music out of ejecting/retracting those all at different times!
Would've actually been fantastic distributed systems practice, synchronizing all of those to tight tolerances of music across a network connection...
I don't understand why you'd buy this over the first party Steam Deck
Another really helpful tool is to use the fish shell instead of bash. It has tons of useful features, but my favorite is by far the autocomplete. It parses man pages to provide suggestions for flags, subcommands, even passed arguments, and each item in the results list has a description, and it's all searchable by hitting shift+tab.
That's what leveled up my cli game from 0-100. It's a massive difference in usability and discoverability. And unlike things like nushell, it's close enough to bash that you won't feel confused if you have to use bash instead.
I had that on a physical machine! It broke hardcore lol I had to reinstall the OS after trying to update
And I bought it last year! Just because it's been out for a while doesn't mean people aren't still discovering it. Especially true for a 2d, stylized game like Terraria where maxing out the performance and graphics isn't essential to make it competitive with newer games.
Actually, when I was in Paris in high school, I had the opposite experience - I kept trying to speak French (which I could speak conventionally after 6 years of study), and many people would refuse to answer me in French, instead answering me in English.
You can do a lot of sites! https://duckduckgo.com/bangs