That’s a good parallel - AfD like the Dixiecrats and now the GOP MAGA base have a geographical stronghold (in this case the “new states” of former East Germany)

An alternate future without German reunification is interesting to imagine, ditto one without a Aus Civil War where the south just seceded

Yeah. I know Indonesia is cracking down on phone smuggling now by locking carrier access to registered IMEIs

If you bring one back you get a cheaper import fee if you declare it immediately

Good point. Though I wonder how much is due to Hitler being chancellor and Goering the minister president of Prussia.

I tried Proton years ago and didn’t find it that useful (I can manage my own PGP keys, thank you).

Started switching to Fastmail seriously this month, after having had mail delivery problems with mailbox.org because of DNSSEC issues (they use a deprecated SHA1 signature still) - I have used migadu.com for a different domain for a few years as well but the webmail is a bit sluggish and the spam filter too aggressive, I might end up consolidating on Fastmail for now

Sure it’s Five Eyes so a slight regression from mailbox and migadu, but if it works well enough I might be able to get my family to move off of Gmail so a net win

It also appears that the first post has to tag the community, so tagging on a reply does not work. Good enough though.

I wonder if it will be analogous to the situation in China. Is an iMessage conversation safe if one party is based in China and their data is stored in data centers there?

This. I bet the experience is better if you use it on an enterprise distro they have precompiled drivers for.

With the boom in AI their focus is increasingly on the data center market, so it’s a small miracle (thanks Red Hat and others prodding them) they even have an open driver right now for newer cards (tellingly it’s in a better state for computational use than for rendering pixels on the screen)

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FluffyChat is a decent alternative client (with E2EE support). If you don’t need e2ee there’s actually a healthy number of clients, and some of them do seem to have it on their roadmap

https://matrix.org/clients/

Point taken on server implementations though

For browser I’d just use Firefox with the Facebook Container extension

I heartily recommend Frost too. one downside: if you want to chat with people in EU and UK, FB limits some features (not sure what) for privacy compliance and such chats don’t show up in Frost

Settings are available outside meetings – if you create and account and log in. One of those “makes sense but why can’t you save the settings locally?”.

I use tiling extensions for my desktop (either PaperWM or Material Shell, for GNOME) so thankfully the “window not maximized” is not an issue, but thanks, I did not realize Screen Sharing auto-fullscreen can be disabled!

If you’re on Fedora (maybe other distributions too) you can still start a desktop session on X, so if something doesn’t work the fix is just a logout away.

IIRC Zoom screen sharing doesn’t work on Wayland, but open source apps mostly work.

it’s been reported several times, eg

http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

I’m still supporting Mozilla myself, for now, for lack of a batter alternative, but am increasingly on the ‘no client-side JS’ / ‘let’s try Gemini’ side; the web is getting too complex for alternative browser engines