You: “Now listen child, and heed my tale of woe…”

Them: “drop it one banana”

Proton is arguably the best option if you’re trying not to rely on Google, and they are slowly building a suite of apps with the goal of directly competing with Google Drive, Calendar, Sheets, etc.

boooo

Is this the Google Keep replacement we’ve all been waiting for?

Yeah the best option is the old PC you already have. Unless you’re transcoding video or into LLMs it will be more than enough.

“I want a way to record the young ladies at the gym without Meta knowing about it”

Very cool, what hardware are you using that supports CEC?

PC Gamer is just reporting on the original story from the Register, and the quote is real from the maintainer of the stable branch.

This is cool, so I could theoretically just set up a Plex/Jellyfin library and not need a youtube account?

€420 isn’t crazy for a 10gbps Wifi 7 router. A quick search tells me the Arris G54 is about that price and only 3.1gbps.

EDIT: Just realized the G54 is a modem/router combo.

EDIT 2: And the Turris €420 version doesn’t have Wifi

The phrase “E2E encryption” definitionally means it applies when you don’t trust whole chain.

Continuously steering a conversation away from the big important facts and towards irrelevant details is called “flooding the zone with shit” which yes, is a type of disinformation campaign.

And it only works if regular people take the bait.

Since I first learned about Linux I have never envisioned a future where Linux didn’t eventually take over essentially all operating system spaces and I still don’t. The question is how long will it take to get there.

But as others have said, I think the overall decline of desktop PC use combined with the just pure overall quality of Linux compared to Mac and Windows PCs in 2026 implies that the x86 PC space will become majority Linux within the next 10 years if not less.

Signal is what you’re looking for

It’s not a company it’s a nonprofit foundation. And they’ve been audited many times by independent auditors.

you agree it’s a distraction but continue to bring it up 🤔

The fact that anyone is even debating the (completely irrelevant) first aid kit means the disinformation campaign is working.

I’m saying by focusing on the irrelevant first aid kit you are playing into the hands of those who seek to discourage the use of private messaging apps.

I agree that bringing a first aid kit to a peaceful protest is not evidence that someone is planning violence.

I disagree that bringing a first aid kit along with explosives and assault weapons to a planned confrontation is evidence someone was attending a peaceful protest.

This is total alarmist misinformation. The “evidence of terrorism” was not “using Signal” or “carrying a first aid kit”, it was taking part in an armed assault on an immigration facility where a dozen people set off fireworks and shot a police officer with an AR-15.

The prosecution used the presence of the first aid kit they carried during their armed assault, along with actual messages (not metadata) from a Signal chat to make the case that the attackers planned on using violence.

There are a lot of problems with this case, IMO the most dangerous part here is that adds legitimacy the (false) idea that “antifa” is an organization that exists. Something the Trump administration has been struggling to prove. This X post takes small details out of context.

1. Don’t trust anything ever posted to X. Especially something that discourages the use of private messaging apps.

2. I highly recommend everyone report this this post to your admins and strongly recommend all instance admins ban/warn accounts like OP. If we want the fediverse to catch on it needs to be more factual, not knee jer.