As an American I’m not really a fan of it mainly because it’s different from the World standard. We are the only country that insists on doing it different. It would not be hard to change either. I would love for it to change but it’s not something I’m putting a lot of time or thought into right now.

This is exactly why I can’t really trust main stream cooperate media anymore. They don’t do anything now days. They so often just take things at face value.

You seem to have all the same reasoning I did. It is nice to hear someone else confirm it. Also when I need to I still plan on using @tuta.com for things I want more privacy on.

I totally get the anger with Netflix. I fucking hate them as a filmmaker. But I really don’t think a long term solution is pirating content.

BUY CONTENT YOU LIKE

Is it more expensive? Of course it is, that’s part of an equitable society. Also it means you end up with content you really like and not a bunch of junk.

I learned that I need to truly understand something to be able to trust it. I had to learn the same lesson with Proton.

I am praying for poeples downfall a lot. Like there is a guy I work with. I have been praying on his downfall all year and it may be coming.

Yea because to make Linux and GIT you have to have starkly different world view.

Same my entire adult life I don’t think I have ever signed one.

Also to be fair I feel like YouTube has a large amount of deadish Internet content or just content that can’t exist in a landscape that doesn’t reward getting clicks (think Mr. Beast and similar).

I had the exact same experience when I first tried Linux. But now when I am evily forced into using Windows and HATE it any other way. Also I despise the windows terminal now (PowerShell & CMD).

I also don’t trust Microsoft to keep it turned off. Even if it is truly off (really hard to tell) what’s to say it doesn’t turn back on in an update. I want an OS I can trust.

I would love to move to some US state with lots of forested country and go build a cute little homestead. Work part time to buy things I need.

Mmm…my dream. Also BTW I’m in my early 20’s.

It’s a great example of why I push for the use of technologies where I don’t have to trust companies to play nice with my data. If I use (correctly implemented) end to end encryption then you physically can’t access my data.

Would you recommend an AMD or Intel?

Think that pisses me off the most is how you can’t uninstall it. First of all, I don’t even really need a mail app on my computer. If I do, I’ll install one I actually want to use.

Funny you say that. I despise Nord VPN and consider them HIGHLY unethical. Also they aren’t truly private because they want a bunch of infromation when signing up.

Any VPN that I see a lot of ads for and other content for makes them come off as sketchy.

TBH, if you just use a decent VPN (thats truly private) then this doesn’t matter. Which is something you should be doing anyways.

I very sadly don’t see it going anywhere because of how much money has been invested by big tech corporations such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Reason they’re willing to put so much money into these corporations is because they’re being built on their cloud infrastructure, which the different AI companies pay for. So either way, they end up getting more money and becoming more influential, even if the AI hype eventually dies out.