I have reliably upgraded Mint in place the last, dunno, 5-6 major releases or so, works exactly as well as Ubuntu’s

This advice is not directly related to that, this is the same advice given by security-oriented organizations all over to compensate with people being people

I like Snikket as a solution to this

Snikket is an attempt to solve the XMPP issues, or at least to reduce them, single all-in-one XMPP server distro and clients across platforms, and since it’s self-hosted no one should get their hands on your data (in normal circumstances).

That said, the saying goes “Perfect is the enemy of Good”. Just because a solution is not perfect doesn’t make it unusable, any of those options you mention full of problems are a helluva better than FB Messenger or plain SMS for example. Depending on your threat model they might be more than enough.

Heh, hadn’t seen KDE like this in ages, it’s been a while

They do, one with them at the top

In that line, is there an open standards, no Google required answer to the Chromecast?

They bought an ads company AFTER this person took the reins

Not customers, users, otherwise they’ll start paywalling features

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

We’re seeing the fallout from a commercial service used for public interest communication falling in real time with Twitter, so many public service things that depended or still depend on Twitter have outright broke as it turns into raw sewage and people flee it. That should have NEVER been the main communications medium, and now the price is being paid. I understand as i too am in a place where WhatsApp is near-mandatory, but this is something that WILL have bad consequences sooner or later.

First AI and now freaking Bitcoin…

I didn’t knew about lsof -i, noted

Thanks!

As somebody that might be changing phone sometime this year and to cover all the possibilities, do we have a recent comparison of all these projects?

The community is VERY MUCH against the decline of Mozilla

They have gone corrupt, they’re full-on techbros now

Any idea what are the “forked degoogled chromium” branches going to do about this?