They have a bunch of broken links on their site so not a great sign that someone’s keeping up with this project

The “meat” isn’t just AI though, that’s just a symptom of a CEO who is becoming more right-wing. Right now they’re just putting in a little “meat” in the form of sucking up to Trump for whatever reason, pushing a tool that’s also being pushed by the right (AI), and pretty soon that bit of chicken broth may turn into nothing but rare steak when their privacy is finally breached in a meaningful way. It’s reasonable to jump ship as soon as you think the smallest amount of meat is in your vegetarian dish.

I switched from Mullvad to IVPN, no complaints

Imagine you are a vegetarian eating food from a reputable vegetratian food company. One day they start putting meat in the food. The non-vegetarians are not upset with this but you are. Why?

I have a standalone GPS like it’s 2008, in addition to excellent offline navigation it also probably doesn’t spy on me

There is a project called Open ECU that does some of this but I think its scope is very limited

Using any Chromium browser contributes to Google’s ever-encroaching monopoly on all things Web. Hard pass.

Aurora is also a good substitute store if you don’t want to use sandboxed Google Play, but anything that uses Google Play Services will likely be borked

Could have a single picture of it that isn’t a render, to start

I do civil engineering work, mostly related to soils etc. I have a computer for work but that’s about as far as it gets for me professionally.

Engineer here, but my technical expertise is about as far away from computing and technology as you can get and still be an engineer.

I was a kid in the 90s and the first album I bought was Metallica’s black album. I spent over $18 in like 1999 so with inflation that’s like $300 or something now. Then the drummer of what was then my favorite band says hey, if you’re downloading our music on Napster, then we don’t want you as a fan. That hit teenage me pretty hard and basically radicalized me to find “alternative methods” for every piece of digital media I could, if that’s how the people I looked up to were going to treat me for not having as much money as them. Everything I host now started at that inflection point, from picking up Linux as a hobby to learning about networking and security. Turned out to be a pretty good path to follow though seeing how Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify et. al. turned out in the end.

I still download and share all of Metallica’s discography out of spite, but haven’t listened to them since.

North Dakotan?