Gnome-Software and GDebi can do exactly that for you. Download a deb, right click “open with X”, and they’ll install it for you using GUI. You can even change file associations so debs are opened by gdebi/gnome-software by simple double-clicking.
As a read-only SO user - thank you for your answers!
Fourth panel as well, with those bots collecting data for AI training that don’t respect your robots.txt, change user agents and overload your servers
Get a new IP that’s unrelated to your home and unrelated to a non-residential VPN service, and purge your browser’s data. Keeping the old laptop should be fine, I think.
if I make my account at a different location, but return home and sign onto it from there, will Reddit still pick that up?
No idea, but that wouldn’t surprise me.
A place where you can rent a PC. Any regular internet cafe or a public library should work too.
Reddit bans people for using a VPN, so you might have been banned for that and not tracked back to your original account. Get a residential VPN/Proxy, they are usually a bit pricier than the normal ones, or just go to a friend’s house and use their IP to register.
Not that it will help in the long run. Their AI is running rampant. If it doesn’t ban you for this, it will ban you for that, or for a myriad of other “reasons”.
Shadowbans by, what looks like, AI automation
I belive in newer versions they have switched to JS and C#