Then it’s not FOSS.

Ah, yes. The crowbar attack vector. https://xkcd.com/538/

• it’s a beautiful day outside.

And even if it was purely a gossip app, an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

Got it. Thanks for the explanation!

“Seeing patterns” without proper analysis and considering power dynamics is just tinfoil thought with misleading bite-sized statistics.

Unfortunately, the world is too complicated for such a simple approach.

Depends. Will it get people to stand out of my sun?

how

“With no ads” Google used to have no ads. And especially with how much it cost to run even today’s LLMs, let alone tomorrow’s ones… enshittification is only a matter of time.

MY TOMATOES!

I save my texts there on one device and access it on another. Bam. Cloud storage :P

So far so good, but I’ve only used it recently and mostly as cloud storage.

“Have you tried walking out of the house and walking back in again?”

Cat-scan: pocket edition

• Using Vivaldi more than, and soon instead of, Edge
• Tutanota subscription for extra emails (might also get one for Proton at some point, one can never have too many emails)
• Koffr for medium-sized cloud storage instead of Google Drive
• LanguageTool for small text cloud storage and instead of Grammarly
• Mistral instead of ChatGPT and sometimes instead of Google Translate (I can tell it to show its work)

And soon(weeks/days from now):

• Linux as main OS instead of Windows

I understand where you’re coming from, and I can’t blame you in the slightest.

However, I also understand why someone might feel overwhelmed by all the bad stuff happening out there. And we can treat it as an individual moral failure and just complain about how everyone is burying their heads in distraction… or we can treat it as a systemic issue and solve it.

You’ve already made the first step of implicitly asking “why don’t petitions on more pressing issues get traction?”, and now it’s time to look for an answer beyond the simple “bread and circuses”.