Proton serves privacy, not anonymity. They will not collect, harvest, analyse or sell your data. If you however use their services for illegal things they will forward whatever - usually little - unencrypted information they have about you.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

I am in no way antivax or anti-science, but it makes you wonder what other propaganda the US is pushing.

In other words, if you don’t want to pay more for fast food, then you don’t actually want to see fast food workers earn a better wage.

If a business relies on exploitation, it shouldn’t exist. If paying the workers a living wage means raising the prices beyond a sustainable level for the business, this business shouldn’t exist. If a business pays out millions in bonuses to it’s executives while the workers are relying on government subsidies, the business shouldn’t exist.

In Europe GDPR gives you the right to have all your data deleted. All you do is send in a request and SO has to remove everything of yours, not just anonymize it. There are some exceptions for legal reasons, eg where financial transactions are involved, but comments should not be exempt.

I don’t like Canonical either, hence my recommendations for Mint or Pop being listed first. But let’s be real, if someone wants to just get away from windows and wants something that works without having to learn much new, this is good enough.

Unironically, switch to Linux. Mainstream distros like Mint, PopOS or Ubuntu are very friendly for casual users, have GUIs for everything and if something does go wrong, the error messages actually have proper meaning and you’ll find tons of resources online as well as people willing to help.

Most stuff nowadays runs in a browser anyway, so here there’s no compatibility issues, office is available in Linux through libre office and gaming has come far with steam and proton.

[Es ist] in der Koalition eine Einigung auf die Speicherung von Kommunikationsdaten zur Strafverfolgung im “Quick-Freeze”-Verfahren gelungen[…].

Es bedeutet, dass zum Beispiel IP-Adressen oder Telefonnummern nur dann eingefroren - also gespeichert - werden dürfen, wenn gerichtlich darüber entschieden wurde und auch nur dann, wenn Verdacht auf eine schwere Straftat besteht, etwa Mord oder Totschlag. Wenn sich im Verlauf der Ermittlungen zeigt, dass die Daten tatsächlich für das Verfahren relevant sind, dürfen die Ermittler darauf zugreifen.

Das klingt erstaunlich vernünftig. Nur mit richterlichem Beschluss, Zugriff auf die Daten nur, wenn sie relevant sind und nur bei schweren Verbrechen. Dann mal darauf hoffen, dass es auch so bleibt und nicht in Zukunft aufgeweicht wird. Die Schwelle, solche Dinge einzusetzen ist leider geringer als bei nicht-digitalen Durchsuchungen, das führt hoffentlich nicht dazu, dass das Verfahren in Zukunft nach dem Giesskannenprinzip Anwendung findet.

You can always compile from scratch, compare the checksums or use the version you compiled. In projects this large people usually do this, and there’s a certain level of trust that these checks have been performed.

Mint looks quite similar, and if she asks “Microsoft applied an update and now the start menu looks different.”

If all she does is browse the internet and read emails, she’ll never know the difference. You could even set up the splash screen to display the Windows logo or just disable it all together.

Both Futurama and Family Guy were cancelled early in their runs in 2002/2003 and only revived years later. Firefly was cancelled around the same time and just never revived.

You’re not banning part of the population from the polls, you’re removing anti-democratic elements. I’d argue this is an essential step for democracy to thrive.

Just holding out until more organised help can arrive or your government takes over. This is also in general good advice in case of say natural disasters. Roads may be flooded, areas covered in snow or electricity is out for a few days. Having enough canned food, water, maybe some firewood or alternative means of cooking will come in useful in these circumstances.

I agree with everything but using Google sheets. It’s neither free nor open source. You don’t pay with money but with your privacy. Libre office is just as good as a desktop application and is actually FOSS. If you absolutely need the cloud storage, get a provider you can trust, buy the space and sync your files online, after editing locally.

Man kann den Supermärkten schlecht vorwerfen, wirtschaftlich zu handeln. Im Gegenteil, KI so zu nutzen, dass weniger Lebensmittel weggeschmissen werden müssen, halte ich für eine gute Sache. Mit alles kann gespendet werden und der Rest landet dann im Müll und wird nicht weiterverwendet. Dass ausgerechnet die Tafeln die Leidtragenden sind, ist schlecht, aber dass wir die Tafeln überhaupt brauchen, um Hunderttausende am Existenzminimum lebende zu versorgen, ist ein Armutszeugnis unseres Sozialstaates.

1st gets 25 points, second gets 18 per race. He consistently won nearly every race this season whereas second place was less consistent.

As soon as you leave the city though, you’re having a problem. Bicycle infrastructure is basically non-existent, cars heavily impeding buses - at least where I live - which delays them all the time and centralised bus hubs, which means that you always have to go to the bus hub first, change bus lines and then go to your destination.

This is also my biggest problem with the metro in Oslo. If you live slightly outside of Oslo but still along the metro line, the only way to travel perpendicular to the metro lines is often to take the metro towards the city, change lines and go back almost the same direction you came from.

In 2022, it was ruled that the BfV may classify and monitor the entire party as a suspected right-wing extremist group. A corresponding lawsuit by the AfD was dismissed because “there were sufficient factual indications of anti-constitutional efforts within the AfD”.[36] On 26 April 2023, the BfV, after four years of investigations into the Young Alternative for Germany, categorized that group as a confirmed extremist organization. This allowed the chief of the BfV Thomas Haldenwang to place the youth wing under even more intensive surveillance than the tapping of phone and the use of undercover agents that had been the case until then.[45][46]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

Just summarizing here. They are right wing extremists that have taken over old Nazi talking points and are gaining popularity with anti immigration, anti climate change and populist propaganda.

You cannot take your very localised and anecdotal experience and draw conclusions about energy cost as a whole. There are many reasons why your electricity now is cheaper than at a different place at a different time.

Besides, nuclear is very expensive compared to other energy sources, it is however often heavily subsidised. Wikipedia has a nice summary on the cost of various electricity sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

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Ohne Arbeitnehmerrechte würden wir alle 12 Stunden pro Tag, 7 Tage die Woche arbeiten. Wir brauchen staatlich Regeln, die Firmen Einhalt gebieten. Welche Regeln der Staat vorschreibt, sei an der Stelle noch dahingestellt, aber ganz ohne geht es nicht.