At least personally I don’t really see how the threadiverse is more toxic than reddit. Though it may be because my instance is simply good at blocking the toxicity away, and the instance their chose isn’t. Which could be something to work on I suppose, but moderation is always a big discussion in these situations, with some people not liking moderation but also, in reality, wanting it

As for niche content, that, unfortunately, is just a catch 22 situation. No simple solution other than to simply get more people to join

People who do that truly don’t actually want an alternative, huh?

They just want Reddit under new management

In EU new installments using refrigerants with GWP of over 150 will be straight up banned next year, at least for home usage

Because if a company gives up profits to be nice, another company will swoop in and get inherently rewarded by doing the profitable thing instead

Modern refrigerants don’t use R134

I question whether we are rapidly approaching the point where Linux is simply easier to use in a safe, secure, and practical way for the average user, because it doesn’t try to actively fuck you over like Microsoft does

It’s easier when you don’t need to jump through hoops to make a local account. It’s easier when you don’t need to turn off a dozen settings you might not know about regarding data collection or advertisements. It’s easier when you don’t have an antagonistic system that treats you like the product, not a user, not pushing you towards confusing things you don’t want

I’d you’re talking about cloud computing for gaming specifically (as you can of course use cloud computing for, well, everything), then maybe it’s not good enough in the US, I don’t know enough about that area to say, but networking is definitively more than sufficient in Europe.

This was done by an archival group, primarily for the purposes of preservation. Don’t know if it helps make you feel better, but at least personally I think complete archives of human cultural output, if possible, are important. So much has already been lost over the course of history

I know you meant “companies”, but at this point, it might as well be on the scale of a country

I think commercialized gambling should be illegal too

It’s definitively something along the lines of “knows just enough to be dangerous”

Like, sure, I’ve also broken my Linux system, but I’m deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader.

If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low

Thet tell on themselves so bad

Capitalism is truly the most efficient system. Needing whole teams to control the owner just because he’s the one that owns the workplace due to having money

But it should be kilowatts. There’s no reason not to use the standard metric for power, it’s unnecessary fragmentation of figures

What are you on about

So I went and looked it up, and signal-desktop is listed as a reproducible build, so theoretically you should be able to go and check that it conforms to the source

https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

But this isn’t anything I’ve looked into myself, so feel free to look into it

And you also need to trust your OS not taking screenshots of your apps or recording the text displayed onto your screen

There’s plenty of links in this chain, there’s a lot you need to be aware of if you’re going to those lengths. Pick your battles

It’s also in the official arch repositories, so any arch-derived distro has an easy install. I don’t know about other distros however

Signal has a Linux client though? I literally use it myself

Also known as Harvest now, decrypt later. And it’s a serious security threats that Signal must consider and handle