If you only ever hear bad news, this can also demoralise and disincentivise people from taking action. That’s why I usually balance them a bit, to avoid doomscrolling.

Isn’t Signal readable through Israeli spyware the US bought?

Threema then, I’d say.

It should be a pedestrian mainwalk. Cars should be the sidelane.

Like a gift economy thing?

Volt feels a bit too centrist, semi-neoliberal. But if it gets people away from Union, why not.

Unironically they’d be a better choice than AfD or Union, but that’s a bar so low you could hardly walk under it.

On toward Die Linke and Grünen!

Alright, time to go to a different phone. Gonna buy Fairphone tomorrow.

(Or Motorola, if it’s true that it’s gonna have GrapheneOS on it).

Live image and test?

do you mean I’d download a distro, put it on a USB, and then extract/open it in there, and test it out?

(and ofc, saving my data on my own desktop on an external hard disk, before committing to switch)?

Would it work for general usage too?

Within Linux I see ‘beginner’, ‘intermediate’ and ‘advanced’ users mentioned, but I’m not sure where I’d fall, or what those would roughly denote.

Like I’m familiar with what a terminal is and how it can be used for commands, I’m not like an old grandma not knowing what the big red X button does, I know not to delete system32 or to avoid sudo rm rf, but I’m not familiar with a shell, setting up an IP of your own, that stuff. I think this would label me as an average user for whom intermediate distros would be possible, but I’m not sure.

Re: the EndeavourOS, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed also has a nice installer, no?

When in doubt, look at the company’s stance on labour rights and sustainability. Avoid the big companies, they’re already powerful.

Basically, the right to be forgotten? Afaik, on Reddit you have scripts to erase all message and rewrite/redact them with nonsense.

I assume something similar may exist for Lemmy, Piefed, etc.

That’d be a dream!

Palantir are a terrorist company

Terrible, it should never be allowed that companies can grow this large.

Some forums still exist, actually.

Hmm, not protected bicycle lanes. The lane one goes onto after crossing, is also not on the right. Still, good development.

The only thing they care about is profit and what would maximise it for them.

It’s a shame honestly, I feel like Piefed without up/downvotes at all would work better. No algorithm, thanks.