A fair point, but I do want to highlight that we’ve had plenty of companies like Bethesda releasing crap like Starfield, using tactics that specifically turned on their artist employees, and then scratching their heads on why it didn’t sell as well as Skyrim or Doom. I’m also seeing a lot of C-class laziness here.

Maybe they could consider just, you know, not releasing things that suck so bad.

Come to think of it, “X” is awfully close, as a glyph, to a swastika.

Thanks, I hadn’t heard the term.

…what the heck is “deadnaming”?

Respect, but… No.

It’s not nearly as much fun as it sounds anymore. It’s all VPNs, Usenet, torrents, and signal hacking.

The only traditional conglomerations left are in southeast Asia and maybe the coast of Africa, and I gotta say, they do not look like they’re having any fun.

Yes, well, a pirate ship can’t stay in business without raiding trade convoys, either.

Kids! Be my eyes!!!

"Don’t think of it as dying. Think of it as… getting out before the rush. "

At least he’s honest. Props for that.

I mean he’s dead wrong, but the user name is refreshing.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO GOOGLE!!!

In this case I still feel like that’s an improvement.

Lineage/Graphene OS for the win

I’m not saying that is the only good option, but you should look into proton mail.

Well, there’s always the possibility of a Wayland compatibility upgrade. I know it’s a lot, but these guys are nerds hard-core about this, and thank God for that, too.

They’ve never shown me a Joe Rogan podcast.

Or… are we!??

If you don’t mind, what are the specific complaints about Spotify? I’m aware that they’re not terribly profitable for the musicians, but are there other concerns too?

Put your home directory on its own partition, and you can usually even preserve files between distros.