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That is not what they said. They said operationally nothing is changing. However, they are basically in-part ad supported and so with that comes some strings. All of this can probably be configued out but it is a pain.

For me, hard call. Fragmenting into maybe better browsers reduces Firefox popularity and that impacts wheather web developers will test against anything but Chrome. When that happens these other browsers become irrelevent. So using other browers has a consequence.

Why do you think Firefox is spying on you any more then any of the other major browsers? Turn off all of the sponored content.

Yes or sometimes it is just that the Firefox version is too old or your privacy setting too strict. So updating to latest version and switching to a new clean standard profile can help.

There is only one answer, Firefox or a derivative. Anything else is a vote for a closed commercial web.

We are doing things. An important judge race in WI went our way. Couple of FL congress races were won by republicans by a lot less then expected. In MN we had 25000 people turn out. There are tons of cases working through the courts.

About all can be done at the moment is file law suits, try to shift public opinion enough so Republican congessman start getting nervous, win elections as come up.

Look at FairPhone. I got a Pixel 8a recently and flashed Graphene and I think this is the best tradeoff but I understand wanting jack etc, as I would have liked too.

In hind site for me, turns out Blutooth is great as it works well with my OTC hearing aids and my Bluetooth headphones too. I liked the hearing aide support as it gives me proper calibrated sound where generic stuff will not.

Sounds like a wealthy man. Anyone who cannot define what is enough will always be poor regardless of how much money they have.

When your wealthy, money ceases to have much meaning.

I use primarily debs but if your using Ubuntu it will include Ubuntu supported snaps. This is all from the distro supplied repos generally.

Installing random stuff not distro support contains a lot of addition risks such as potentially more bugs and malware.

I think the only 3rd party program I have installed is an AppImage of Joplin. I found the snap buggy.

I am not big fan of snaps or flatpacks as I had issues with both. One rarely needs them on Debian based distros anyway.

Just thinking what possibilities. Some thoughts.

• We always use Ubuntu LTS and do not install or upgrade a release until is out for 6 to 9 months. For Debian we use stable.

• Make certain your install media is good and also the computer storge media.

• Keep the system updates current.

• Use packages installed from the standard repo and supported by the security team.

Not sure what else.

Just FYI. My family has used linux for 25 years on many systems and we do not have stability issues. We use mostly Ubuntu or Debian.

Have no idea why your having issues. Could distro or hardware related. Also are you sure your storage media is good.

Yes. I support one youtuber that way. They put extended content there and stuff youtube would sensor. Do not actually use it that much but it is a nice thank you one gets for supporting them.

You can share a name or handle now but I think you still need the phone number otherwise though you no longer have to share it.

The big upside of signal is that it is better then SMS, and has more adoption then any of the other reasonable options. Adoption is still not enough to make it that useful when compared with Messenger and SMS and even with this addressbook thing your complaining about trying to drive it.

Big downsides abound too including needing a phone number, and being tied to a phone.

2 is probably wrong. Molly exists. Trademark cannot be used to prevent other implementations, just the use of the name or other dress. What may not be open is the server side code and federation is not supported.

That assumes you can tell and that the best people and processes are flawless which is not true by a wide margin.

This assumes all human therapists are ethical and never make mistakes, and that all of their offices, notes and data syatems are secure too. All security is porous.

MAGA is really a billionaire movement wrapped in what looks like a populist movement based primarily only on anger, hate, and oppression. I do not think bribes are needed. It is built-in.

Peertube is the distributed Fediverse platform. The issue of course is ability to monetize and discoverability, both huge issues for creators. No creators, no content.

And yet the American people vote for this. Hard to get IRV through. Hard to get election finance reform. Both parties complicit but MAGA is blatant about it.

There tends to be truth in that You do not get mega weathy without stealing the money from someone either legally or otherwise.

Not all wealthy people are total crap though. Then there are those that were not great in thier earning years and then try to patch it up with philanthropy later.