Rob Nergal

Here's how you make noai.duckduckgo.com your default search engine so you don't have to toggle the filter on every time you do a search:

1) Make sure your Firefox is up to date.

2a) Go to the website and right click in the search field and select 'Add Search Engine' and confirm with 'Add Engine':

OR!

2b) Go into Firefox's settings and under Search, scroll down until you find the option to manually add a search engine:

And the URL you'll want to enter is https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=%s

3) Either way, you will now have to scroll to the top of your Search settings in Firefox and then change your Default Search Engine to the one you just added.

As for other browsers... I don't have a clue, fuck Chrome in particular.

Just the fact I can say it is one flash drive particularly, and that is not Nemo (Linux Mint's file manager), is all progress.

I routinely considered the events of note preceding the great fuckening: I had accessed my flash drive on Windows 10; I had unmounted the flash drive but pulled it out before it had completed unmounting; and I had done a hard shut-down when my boot-up slowed to a crawl (thanks to NordVPN, which initially I blamed for this entire clusterfuck).

I accessed the flash drive in Windows and ran a repair function on it; it claimed the flash drive was fixed (Nemo said, "I'll be the judge of that"). I also changed permissions on the flash drive to everybody and their dog. Windows was fine with all of this, as well as all reading and writing of every kind. Windows is very cool with my flash drive. Very chummy.

In Linux, I changed permissions on the flash drive itself; then in Nemo. I discovered that my file manager is named "Nemo" and that there are other ones I can test. I tried "Nautilus" and "Thunar." This is when I realized the problem is probably with my flash drive: other people with my problem reported that Nemo was the problem child, and that the other file managers would work where Nemo didn't. Neither one would write to the flashdrive.

I noted that if I left Nemo open while waiting for a document to transfer, a second dialogue box would pop up, frozen in the act of transferring the file. If I shut down my OS I would sometimes get an error message from Files telling me that it was busy.

I am curious to know why the solution was what it was. I think what happened was that I was too quick to pull out the flashdrive before it had properly unmounted. In this screenshot, "TESLADRIVE" was not mounted, but its ghost was.

That ghost was unwritable, and only accessible by root. So I became root, changed the folder's read/write permissions to "blues" (me) and deleted it, with the thought that it was the equivalent of a temporary Windows file left behind after a hard shutdown.

After restarting the laptop, I went to the USB folder, right-clicked, and checked Permissions. I set "blues" to have full read and write capabilities. For the record, I had already tried this multiple times.

This time, it worked!

Just the fact I can say it is one flash drive particularly, and that is not Nemo (Linux Mint's file manager), is all progress.

I routinely considered the events of note preceding the great fuckening: I had accessed my flash drive on Windows 10; I had unmounted the flash drive but pulled it out before it had completed unmounting; and I had done a hard shut-down when my boot-up slowed to a crawl (thanks to NordVPN, which initially I blamed for this entire clusterfuck).

I accessed the flash drive in Windows and ran a repair function on it; it claimed the flash drive was fixed (Nemo said, "I'll be the judge of that"). I also changed permissions on the flash drive to everybody and their dog. Windows was fine with all of this, as well as all reading and writing of every kind. Windows is very cool with my flash drive. Very chummy.

In Linux, I changed permissions on the flash drive itself; then in Nemo. I discovered that my file manager is named "Nemo" and that there are other ones I can test. I tried "Nautilus" and "Thunar." This is when I realized the problem is probably with my flash drive: other people with my problem reported that Nemo was the problem child, and that the other file managers would work where Nemo didn't. Neither one would write to the flashdrive.

I noted that if I left Nemo open while waiting for a document to transfer, a second dialogue box would pop up, frozen in the act of transferring the file. If I shut down my OS I would sometimes get an error message from Files telling me that it was busy.