All the more reason to switch to Europe-based (or at least non-US-based) services as much as possible.

The Trump administration is just a straight-up Captain Planet villain at this point.

I’m just going to call it “the climate shitshow” at this point, with how cooked we seem to be.

Screaming at the state of mainstream gaming? Yeah, that checks out.

Then it’s not FOSS.

We can, just give me a petition link I can sign. Or at least a newsletter or something I can subscribe to so I get notified when a petition is out to sign.

Video games or not, SKG is a great success for European civic participation. We should be taking notes on how it was organized, what it did right, and what it did wrong.

…or we can raise our fists towards the clouds and complain.

“Me looking at the man-made horrors beyond my comprehension (I don’t get it)” - the Victorian child

“Nostalgia is a fallacy.” And so is “new = better”. Just look at Windows.

And even if it was purely a gossip app, an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

What territory exactly are you trying to “restore”, invader?

Got it. Thanks for the explanation!

“Seeing patterns” without proper analysis and considering power dynamics is just tinfoil thought with misleading bite-sized statistics.

Unfortunately, the world is too complicated for such a simple approach.

Depends. Will it get people to stand out of my sun?

how

“With no ads” Google used to have no ads. And especially with how much it cost to run even today’s LLMs, let alone tomorrow’s ones… enshittification is only a matter of time.

I save my texts there on one device and access it on another. Bam. Cloud storage :P

So far so good, but I’ve only used it recently and mostly as cloud storage.

• Using Vivaldi more than, and soon instead of, Edge
• Tutanota subscription for extra emails (might also get one for Proton at some point, one can never have too many emails)
• Koffr for medium-sized cloud storage instead of Google Drive
• LanguageTool for small text cloud storage and instead of Grammarly
• Mistral instead of ChatGPT and sometimes instead of Google Translate (I can tell it to show its work)

And soon(weeks/days from now):

• Linux as main OS instead of Windows

I understand where you’re coming from, and I can’t blame you in the slightest.

However, I also understand why someone might feel overwhelmed by all the bad stuff happening out there. And we can treat it as an individual moral failure and just complain about how everyone is burying their heads in distraction… or we can treat it as a systemic issue and solve it.

You’ve already made the first step of implicitly asking “why don’t petitions on more pressing issues get traction?”, and now it’s time to look for an answer beyond the simple “bread and circuses”.

Nah, switching takes time. Better start now.