My strategy about that is to avoid putting all my eggs on the same basket :

• Not using proton pass while bitwarden works like a charm
• Sticking to a custom domain for my mail address to ease a future migration

According to a wikipedia search that I could cross reference more, Proton AG is 500 employees and Alphabet is 190k (380 times Proton).

What is your definition of big tech? I was only including huge monopolistic monoliths, are they “huge tech”?

If f-droid doesn’t expect to survive I think the whole stack /e/OS relies on might eventually collapse (microg, lineage, …).

To be fair, I don’t think Xitter is really dead? It certainly took a hit though 🤷

Linux phones are moving fast but it feels like Android is moving faster on the other direction 😥

(Yes I know Android is built over Linux, I mean more traditional and open distros like postmarketos)

Sourced facts nonetheless

I see three ways of switching windows on windows :

1. Clicking on the taskbar, but its quite slow because it relies entirely on mouse control
2. Using alt+tab, this is super efficient when you have at most 4 windows open, then you often have to scroll through the whole list and concentrate to not miss your window
3. Using the task view : this should be the modern way, the trackpads shortcut is super intuitive, it works well with many windows and is well integrated with virtual desktops. But it seems completely unfinished : it’s super laggy, very buggy (animations often freeze leaving some windows impossible to select) the taskbar blinks for no reason 🤷

But again, I think I’ve been spoiled by Linux. Many desktop environments integrates virtual screen so well that you can easily switch between apps in less than 200ms, which is a big deal : if you look at two apps it’s almost more convenient than moving your sight from one monitor to another (for example copying some data, or monitoring some progress)

“Multi modal”

Will it finally be possible to be productive with more that 3 windows open?

About YouTube premium :

1. I don’t like the idea of spending money for Google. I don’t find it very ethic to use their services in the way I do but no replacement has come up for years. I try to mitigate by donating to some content creators and I would love to pay a subscription to something like Nebula if there were at least 3 people I follow in there.
2. I would use an adblocker even if I paid. On my phone Tubular is just a much better experience : multi platforms, aggregates my subscription, no addictive low quality suggestions and lightweight while still featurefull (and it integrates sponsorblock 🤫)

Also on my previous phone the YouTube app was super slow and would regularly crash because of RAM shortages. This was 6 years ago though.

I was gonna make a sarcastic comment on how surprised I was that a 5$ subscription is not enough for something so heavy that it requires building new nuclear plants.

But holly shit, ChatGPT+ is 23€/months.

My take of this is that their definition of socialism is “an economic system where all people appear to not be rich” while their definition of capitalism has to be “some people are super rich”…

Why the fuck would you call an external API for a static font?? O_o

Does it have something to do with paid plans?

So he’s now over with AR honeymoon?

Yeah people often mention the funny phone designs from the 2000’s but they also praise the Nokia 3310 for its reliability.

So mythical that it’s the first time I hear of this BS 🤷

Yeah, I think there was some efforts, until we found out that adding billions of parameters to a model would allow both to write the useless part in emails that nobody reads and to strip out the useless part in emails that nobody reads.

Did zuck say anything relevant to the market in the past 10+years?

It’s a provocation but I’m also kinda curious, with the level of information and consulting he has access to he must be choosing the topics he is relevant about?

At least it was Americans talking on an american platform. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had french Europeans leaders having occasionally this kind of discussions on Microsoft Teams or some Google chat.

On Signal you can verify user identify, and you should absolutely do it if were to discuss national security maters.

This is not a hidden feature, I think it’s designed to prevent man in the middle attack. It also work against the “oops I accidentally added a journalist to my conversation no one should know of”, which is so dumb that no one saw this coming 😅

If you were to discuss national security maters with someone, please just verify your safety numbers, IRL or through another safe and verified channel 🙄