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Mentally ill how?

Can we just have both? I'm the opposite, I never use the current assistants but would probably use ChatGPT in this manner.

How do you read the terms without accessing their website?

No amount of regulation would help if the users themselves don't value their data. As far as they are concerned, these products are free. They might be wrong, but that's irrelevant here, the relevant part is that to them their data is worthless so they don't care. We need more education on this, not regulation. Or rather we need both.

I doubt this "opt-in" would replace the already existing tracking. It being opt-in is pointless since at very best it doesn't change anything.

No disagreement here. It's just unfortunate that the users happily agree to everything you've pointed out. Because their browser is apparently just so nice, and a typical user has no ability to recognize value in their data so it feels free to them.

Not for free, for a browser. This doesn't make it any less evil.

Knowing the Internet, it would be Joemom, I presume? :)

There are plenty of FOSS alternatives to word that hit that market.

Plenty? I know one and its fork. That's about one and a half.

EDIT: Oh, you probably meant the rich text editors like Wordpad, not text processors like Word. My bad for misunderstanding.

Yep, violence it is then. Just like the lines: justified.

To be specific: from trusted developers. Installing them only from the official repository (is it still possible to reasonably install them any other way?) won't help if a dev sells such an addon. On the other hand I cannot imagine someone like Raymond Hill (the uBlock Origin dev) doing it, considering his track record.

Lustre

Indeed. Personally my problem isn't with them limiting the "freedom of speech". It's with them claiming they have it or that it's even relevant there, as you've said.

Your take would be acceptable if a perfectly viable alternative like Firefox didn't exist. Since it does, how about you STFU?

Their exclusivity period is over either way. The game has been on Steam for years. I don't think it would block a GOG release in any way now.

The commit history is trivial to rewrite.

In this scenario above, playing Starfield and it being too enormous to finish in a month or two, you'd hardly have any time to enjoy these other games either.

Is "directly" the new "literally"? Because it literally contributes indirectly.

The magnetic cables can short the pins never meant to be shorted by attracting random metal shavings. For microUSB it was relatively benign with only 4-5 pins (lots of space between them) and low voltage. With USB-C I wouldn't dare to try it due to it having much more pins and often much higher voltage (Power Delivery). It's perfectly possible to fry a device with a bad short in such conditions.

Just use what your distro gives you, you shouldn’t have to care about these things.

To expand on this: OP, if you want to try a different init, you're most likely better off switching the whole distro to one using that init. Unless of course your current distro explicitly supports many different init systems (like Gentoo). Don't try to replace it by hand in a distro that expects to run on systemd, it's a recipe for disaster.