jeez

I don’t think so to be honest, I have never seen it here :-( Maybe in a couple years

I have seen it mentioned quite a few times on websites. Can you actually pay normal shops using that?

I read that this is actually coming. I forgot what it was called though. Fingers crossed.

Fair, I’m all in for de-bloating! The only problem with plugins is that it can become increasingly difficult to provide the same quality of testing and quality, because you can’t possibly test all combinations of enabled plugins - even if most don’t interfere with each other, it can easily break stuff

yeah I don’t like it neither, my view is just a bit pessimistic unfortunately

They care about doing the least amount of work while making the most amount of money.

I mean that’s what capitalism does in a nutshell. Lower costs and increase the price. It’s optimized for profit, not for the best product, unfortunately. The only thing that should keep it within lines is competition, but if the competition isn’t any better it won’t help

Man I just wish there were better alternatives to MasterCard and Visa.

All these desperate attempts to protect copyright. I understand it, I want to publish things and not have it scraped by AI, but let’s be realistic here. No government in the world wants to miss out on AI. The general public profits enormously from AI too. I doubt any of that is going to succeed.

Yeah, it’s a weird combo for FOSS because macOS is quite the opposite of what FOSS stands for. However, quite a few people think it’s the best and… I don’t know

it works just fine because people generally earn the same depending on education, experience and profession. There are tools online to check what range you can expect based on your parameters, and then there is some flexibility based on your person/skills. The salary is then negotiated during the application phase.

that sucks, this means no more hiding metadata. However, they aren’t ditching switzerland (yet) - this only happens if the government applies the new surveillance rules which is not set in stone yet.

I use pgp and host mail myself. It’s not as hard, and it’s by far less problematic than a lot of people make it out to be. Don’t trust hosters.

self-hosting email, text based clients and a deeper understanding of the protocol made me start to love email. I didn’t think it was possible to love email.

could be, I can’t judge that. do you have any source for that info or is it based on an assumption?

Well this is obviously personal to some degree, but for me it would be to fix bugs, don’t crash, dont make me restart after an update and lose my incognito tabs, focus on being w3c compliant, block ads, maybe allow blocking annoying cookie banners and maybe allow good keyboard navigation. I like some features other browsers have, such as integrated tor browsing - but since I am not a big fan of bloat, I’m not sure whether that should be handled outside of the browser

I’m quite unhappy with spotify. I don’t care about the price, but it keeps repeating the same and same music again, and the percentage of crappy AI music is increasing. You can clearly hear it. Their client isn’t open source, and it’s just a wrapped website. It sucks.

I wish Mozilla would just debloat the browser, focus on performance and making browsing a good experience. But unfortunately their revenue situation is bad. At this stage, they won’t even manage to survive through donations after annoying their main user base.

Russia

lol Russia is not particularly popular here right now, we are even on their list of “unfriendly countries” if you didn’t know.

I am Swiss myself and I feel like things are changing since Trumps second term, at least my friends seek closer ties to Europe now.

Proton gives me a bad feeling in the stomach, I would encourage people to not trust it. The guy is either a big Trump fan or most of his customers are from that base. The best option for e-mail is selfhost + pgp, the second best option are the various small companies offering email all across Europe.