That depends on the install date. If you installed Mint 22 when it was released you’re not on the HWE kernel. If you install a later version of Mint based on Ubuntu 24.04.2 or later you’ll get the HWE kernel which auto-updates to newer versions during the lifetime of the distro.

Brave is the least bad chromium browser

It’s pretty sleazy. Ungoogled Chromium or Vivaldi are probably less sleazy, if at all.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1967099

i added 2-3 other adblockers

Never run multiple adblockers at the same time. You gain nothing except broken websites, performance issues, and an increased chance of triggering anti-adblocks.

EasyPrivacy should block Meta and Yandex pixels by default. If you have the knowledge you can put uBO in “hard mode” which will block all 3p connections. It requires you to know which CDNs to allow or websites will be broken.

The sci-fi show Farscape.

I’d also be interested in a list of companies that advertise on X.

Probably most films by Darren Aronofsky. Pi and The Fountain are some of the worst movies I’ve seen. Feels like someone’s artsy shroom trip. I dislike most “artsy” movies without a coherent story.

Also a lot of horror classics bores me to death. For example The Omen, Poltergeist, The Exorcist.

On Ubuntu I use the tar.bz2 version to not have to deal with snaps or extra repositories. Also on Debian Stable to get the latest version.