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Which is what pi-hole uses if anyone is curious.

You could easily upgrade macOS using https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.ht....

On the hardware side, you could open it up, clean the fan, re-apply thermal paste (after so many years, this will make a big difference) and maybe even upgrade the SSD if you feel like it.

That way, this laptop can easily survive another 1-3 years depending on your use-cases.

Just a few tweet below in that thread:

> Telegram is owned by Google if not mistaken!?

sigh.

I once helped some guy with his pin number via this app. It really is awesome. Have this app installed since 3 years

You say this as Google isn't an ad company x).

But yes, i know. I still use it, because i trust those guys to have a good-enough judgement on this. https://blog.privacytools.io/relisting-startpage/

Maybe they're not perfect, but i'm convinced they are a hell lot better than submitting my data to Google. ;)

> I have been using DDG for roughly 2 years now and I always search for things technical or non-technical there first. If it does not give any result or when I know it's very technical I simply add !g to the end

I am the same, but i default to !sp (startpage.com) first.

They claim:

> You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs. [...]