Looks good too

Yeah that’s weird. Does sbctl status say Secure Boot: Enabled? What does it say on Vendor Keys?

Sounds pretty good. If they release a Windows client it might be the first real Discord alternative (assuming calling and screensharing is actually decent)

What’s the “default provision” on your motherboard and which one are you currently using? If secure boot is enabled with TPM, Valorant should boot. It doesn’t matter that you have another OS installed as long as it isn’t running at the same time as Windows.

Was just addressing the amdocs complaint. Didn’t know about the security concerns but it’s most likely still better than Discord and I’m not sure if Signal is even in consideration when looking for a Discord alternative.

Matrix is just the protocol so if you think that synapse (the server implementation developed by Element which does have ties to Amdocs) is somehow logging all your data and sending it back or whatever, just use a different implementation. For example, tuwunel is sponsored and used by Switzerland’s government.

Didn’t plan that far ahead

Easier to just host an .ics file with all the events in some website and let everyone use whatever calendar app they like.

Good/bad content is the same whether it’s AI or not, plus those using AI would probably just lie and say it’s not AI.

Unfortunately unless it’s the algorithm itself publishing the toxicity (which it isn’t), getting rid of the algorithm will not help much.

Set a systemd timer to start mpv in fullscreen with whatever you want as the screensaver in a loop

It’s a stock deal. At $2.5 Trillion valuation I’d say this is chump change.

I guess more AI doesn’t mean more productivity. Who could’ve imagined?

Replace Steam with Epic Games and the same people brushing this off in the comments will be completely convinced that there’s some sort of collusion.

If I send an email to a gmail account my information is still sitting on a Google server. So is Proton worth it?

Due to the nature of email, assume privacy is impossible and just use whatever is easiest (yea, Gmail). Like you mentioned, the message will be in their servers anyways. That is, unless you explicitly only email other Proton users.

If it’s already paid for might as well use them, what a waste of tax dollars. Or at least hit them with a bat and break them if you actually plan on not using them anymore. Covering them with plastic bags allows them to walk it back whenever they feel like it.

If by “open registration” you mean that anybody with your domain name can just go and create an account with no extra verification, then that’s interesting. Good to know.

Element X requires MAS for registration by design, but login is whatever for now. They’re very adamant about making the app MAS-centric.

Also, open registration will get your instance banned from matrix.org homeserver afaik. Probably not an issue if you don’t plan to federate with them, but worth noting.

If you read the article you’d know it was the Megatron-led Decepticons.

Why is Cloudflare bad for the internet?