Signal if possible, WhatsApp if not. I’m also trying out Session, but it’s still very much work-in-progress.

The Opera of today is not the same as the one from back in the days! The original company sold all their code and rights to a chinese consortium in 2016. Since then it’s basically a variant of chromium, with some propriatary features and tracking added. I don’t know the new owners, so I don’t trust them with my browsing data!

RHEL is not Fedora. It’s still lead by a community council, even if you don’t agree with some of their decisions.

In case of your first link it wasn’t even about making a decision. The project has always had the clear stance to not include patented works, so there were no two ways about it.

What’s wrong with Fedora?

Here is a good resource for these kinds of questions: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

This is suspicion on the level of “you can’t be sure reality didn’t just pop into existence 10 seconds ago”. You can never be 100% sure of what others are doing on their hardware, or of anything really, especially if other people are involved. Your chat partners could leak all your chats and metadata for all you know!

What we do know is that Signal is operated by a non-profit foundation, their client and protocol are open source and considered the gold standard for privacy by pretty much every expert on the subject, they had multiple independent audits and a very good track record, they were subpoenaed and couldn’t comply because they didn’t have the requested data. That’s about as good as you can get.

Depends on the level of technology we are using. If we’re zapping around from one habitable planet or interesting space phenomenon to another star trek style then absolutely yes! But a hard no with our current level of technology. I like to spend my time in an environment that’s actually somewhat friendly to life.

We could also just delete stuff after some time. Nobody really needs the 1000th repost of a meme from 20 years ago.

I blocked a handful of people who posted something every few minutes.

Fedora! To me it sits right at the sweet spot of stability and bleeding edge (they call it “leading edge”), and I’m very happy with how they run things (including the most recent controversy!).

That’s why picking the right instances is important, to make sure it’s not some random person in their basement. Read the about pages of the instances, see what they publish about their operations. The people behind the .world instances regularly blog about what they are doing, spending and earning for example. Some are even run by non-profits. I personally feel much better with those kinds of people running a service I rely on, instead of a company that talks to me only through their marketing department and first and foremost wants to maximize profits.

But that’s also exactly my point. You should be able to transfer your account to another instance, so you’re not stuck if the one you picked turns out to be bad or has to be shut down.

Also depends how the other clock is broken, if we’re this picky about it.

Remember that this is how every service you sign up for works. What’s special about Fediverse services is that they synchronize posts between the instances, other than that they work like any other website or app.

Here is an in-depth technical explaination video.

Remove yes but not transition it to a new instance

I don’t see how this is worse than completely removing or taking over your account.

If it’s easy to migrate an account then it would be possible for an admin of a rogue instance or even just a rogue admin of a perfectly fine instance to take your account.

This is the case right now. Admins of your instance have full control over your account. They can remove it or lock you out at any point if they want to.

Also, appart from the obvious restrictions, businesses can structure their prices however they like.

Apparently ChatGPT is really good as a personal tutor. You can ask it specific questions and it will answer with detailed tutorials and step-by-step guides.

While this is probably still true, I doubt it’s a big factor when talking about mass adoption.

I won’t buy Apple hardware as long as they keep being absolute dicks in the tech and app world. It’s a shame really, because they build awesome devices, but I would feel bad everytime I use them.

Also they are much more restricted in many aspects (e.g. sideloading!), so it would be a downgrade for me.