I would keep my feet in both sides, but nobody I know has their feet in any. They’re all Discord/Facebook/Whatsapp.

I think SMS via Signal probably undermines the entire point of it. It’s supposed to be private, if messages are as exposed as text messages by default then their entire mission goes down the toilet.

Finally, I’ve wanted this for ages but forks like Tor and Mullvad always took the fingerprinting defense too far (with no option to tone it down).

I’ve looked up so many email providers that I may have got the terms of services mixed up.

Proton Mail is good, just don’t use the paid version of any Proton service. The paid version will delete your email address if you don’t keep up with payments.

You can get a lifetime subscription to Proton Pass sometimes, and that’s what I did. I suspect that may protect my account from deletion due to inactivity if I’m picked up by ICE or hit by a car and put in a coma (just examples, I’m not American). I’m not sure if it has that effect though.

You can commercialize GPL projects, but good luck getting people to pay that much for a project they could so easily fork. The best you could do is $20 per iso file, but even then that’s only if you’ve got a lot of cultural sway and that’d disappear the moment you start paywalling things.

Companies like Red Hat, OpenSUSE, and Canonical charge for tech support, which I think is the most effective way to earn money off FOSS software but doesn’t really encourage development so much as brand recognition.

Come to think of it, it may have just been the media codecs for one of the two versions (leap and tumbleweed). But one of them I had real trouble installing software.

You need a distro that comes pre-packaged with h264 media codecs more than you need Wayland support. And I’ve tried OpenSUSE but gave up because software installation didn’t usually work.

Basically all of them. The only games I’m ever hyped about are ones I have personal reasons for. That means it’s by a developer of a game I really like such as Bennett Foddy or Zachtronics, or it’s in a very niche genre that I love but rarely see and don’t have the search terms for (Voices of the Void, etc.).

It was always burning

That’s disappointing if true, though not as bad as being owned by Kape Technologies. It’s entirely possible there are two Israeli guys that care about privacy, and on the other hand it’s possible that Mullvad was created specifically for intelligence purposes.

I just block the communities for foreign country’s politics and ignore any political stuff in the other ones.

Mostly it’s to do with boycotts. Like, it’s not the end of the world if you don’t play a video game. I’m generally quite loose with my money if it’s not on any boycott list, since I can feel good about even pointless things if my money isn’t going to something evil.

Why would we want to stop it?

No, god no. I have plenty to do in the shower and not enough hot water.

Yeah, obviously. Really it’s whoever can make AI the cheapest who will win because generative AI is not going to revolutionize anything. It can break things as it has already, but without a tonne of human labor it can’t get to the level it needs for the average person to pay much money for it.

The market will be won by whoever can survive the bubble bursting.

This is the new angle the oil industry is pushing.

The world isn’t going to end due to climate change even if we do nothing, but it will become a much worse place to live and millions will die. When young people think humanity is doomed then they’re less likely to demand action because “it’s hopeless anyway”.

We need to push back against the narrative that all is already lost and nothing we do matters.

WIndows 7

“For-profit” refers to a legally binding obligation to shareholders to maximize profit. It does not simply mean “wants money”. You can be for-profit without being publicly traded, but since Valve is private we’ll never know.

Secureboot does something or other I don’t understand, but it seems to restrict what you can install on your computer. And I’ve heard stories of BIOS software bricking itself when you turn off secure-boot.