Once I get a Linux phone, I’ll be totally Google-free. That’ll be a sweet day.

Online discussions may only lead to small changes in a few people’s lives, but small changes can add up. In an interdependent world, any subtle change can have wide-ranging consequences.

As a non-Russian, what’s the problem with them?

Hunters have been diagnosed with the human equivalent shortly after eating infected venison. There’s no proven causal link, but it seems like quite a coincidence.

And get into the plants growing from that ground, infecting animals who eat them. Prion diseases are seriously scary, and I wish we were putting more effort into finding a cure.

If someone asked for EU-based alternatives to a computer or phone they already owned, I would make suggestions based on my knowledge of the quality and performance of the products without giving any special consideration to the brand. I do absolutely consider all computers to be alternatives to each other and all phones to be alternatives to each other within this context. Finding a product that meets one individual’s specific needs is outside the scope of a chart like this, I think.

In my experience, many people who don’t like or want kids choose to have them for other reasons: family pressure, trying to improve a romantic relationship, feeling like it’s the next step in life, etc. The children born as a result spend the rest of their lives with parents who don’t or can’t meet their emotional and/or physical needs. To me, that’s deeply morally wrong.

Yep, that is what I did. It just seems ironic that a company that sells the service of protecting your privacy wants to violate your privacy in order to do it.

Reporting people who are unhelpful, though?

I don’t want people posting just to make a number go up. If you don’t have anything you want to say, don’t post. If you don’t feel motivated to engage, that’s fine. Just lurk, or log off and do something else.

I don’t have kids because I’ve never especially liked them, and I think it’s morally wrong to have kids if you don’t like or want them.

The Arch Wiki is very in-depth and helpful even though it doesn’t always apply 100% to other distros. Stack Exchange is also helpful, as well as forums such as linuxquestions.org.

Or tor, if you need a solution that doesn’t cost anything.

It still works. It can do almost everything uBlock Origin can do, and some things it can’t. I use them both together, but uMatrix is the one I would never do without.

Most email clients I’ve used can work with either, but there’s no point in using both.

They require an amount of personal info that I don’t really want a company to have.

Any browser is an alternative to any other browser, IMO. They all have the same purpose.

SimpleX is great, polished and easy to use also. And it can be used over Tor, if that’s desired.

At a professional office in the American South, I wouldn’t drink alcohol for lunch, but if a coworker brought some into the office, I’d have some.

Eating cheese in food like pizza or lasagna upsets my stomach a lot, but eating cheese off a block is fine. 🤔