Most “free” things aren’t free, you pay by them collecting your information and selling it. Anyone that automatically thinks something is bad because it isn’t free is dumb as fuck.

I’d almost believe you were paid to hate on proton, but you’d get fired for how fucking dumb your arguments are.

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I’ve managed to de-google completely and mostly de-microsoft, but I use cloud streaming (shadow) for gaming and anything else that’s more than my shitty laptop can’t handle and there’s no way to use Linux on the cloud part. Only thing I can’t do anything about yet, and doubt that’ll change anytime soon or at all.

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Many are, yes. But for some like me who play via cloud streaming where at least Nvidia stops that function, it’s a great thing. It’s also nice to have it all in one place, most people already use Steams screenshot function so having this too is just nice. This has been a commonly requested feature for a long time, it’s only weird that it has taken so long for it to exist.

That isn’t at the same time though… You kinda missed the whole thing with that.

That’s like punching your food delivery person in the face because you got the wrong order, they’re not the problem.

Still the best IMO, and how is it not for the average person? It’s just as fully featured and easy to use as anything else.

The idea of it is, but DDG isn’t. I used it for a couple of years but rarely felt it was good enough, I kept having to go back to Google or even Bing or Yandex to get the results I needed. One of my major gripes was it not showing the dates on results, so I never knew if the information was up to date without clicking through to every result and checking it there. Then I kept seeing pretty bad news about it, the company doing stuff people, including me, didn’t appreciate.

I know some will hate on me for this, but I’ve now used Kagi for about a year and it’s by far the best I’ve ever used. If or when that goes bad I’ll find something else, but right now nothing comes close to giving me both the right results and also giving me control over everything. Of course, there are negatives but that’s the case with everything else too. None of the “bad” news about it has turned out to be even close to as bad as first reported, and the rest is just people hating on it because others say they like it.

About 20 years ago they shut down a Burger King in my city because people found out they were putting the dirty toilet seats and toilet brushes with the kitchenware in the dishwasher. Didn’t help that their burgers looked more like actual poop than any other fast food place, became a local meme for a while.

What… they aren’t spinning at high speeds and “grinding” the surface that’s on them. They only spin as quickly as they need to move the surface. Imagine a treadmill, it’s not going quicker than you are running on it, your shoes never slide on the surface, same here.

I really don’t understand how you have misunderstood this so badly.

You’re doing well with living up to your username.

Larger engagement requires people to make and join communities/subs and we all need to help that happen. It took years for reddit to have what you’re talking about and it’ll take time here too. Sadly we’re at a point in internet history now where many people have tried their hand at being mods and admits and most of those discovered how much it can suck. We’re past the point of it being some exciting new thing so I think a push for better tools and options for those that might consider it is needed. People also have less time and mental energy to take on such roles now than 10-15 years ago.

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I really doubt the numbers. It’s so common to see people complain about ads online, even in places like here where you’d expect most people to use adblockers.

This works for clothes, kitchenware etc. but it’s not the same for tech products. The vast majority of people just want to buy something new that will work for a couple of years. Even cars are less trouble to buy older models and second-hand. This is obviously not an unfixable problem. If everything was designed to be user-repairable, upgradable and with longer support for both software and hardware we’d have less of an issue. But sadly the world runs on capitalism and people have voted with their wallets and gotten us into this mess.

Most people don’t have the time, energy and/or knowledge to make the better choice of getting old and used tech.

IMO the important detail is about the control the country’s government is able to have and use over the company. What things are they sharing with the state? We know the big American social media companies are either forced or choose to comply with sharing data, or the data is used without asking. I don’t trust Meta, Google, and Microsoft any more than I trust ByteDance (the makers of tik tok), and I don’t want my data to be used by the US, China or anyone else.

53k monthly active users is way less than I expected. But makes sense with how slow things are here.

Natural selection.