If you use a rolling/half rolling release like Tumbleweed/Fedora, Nouveau is pretty usable and it progresses. That is unless you are a gamer or do AI stuff. It is Nvidia who had to provide an open source driver to their customers. I don't think Nvidia customers figure they are customers, not beggars as they don't demand it. That even includes governments and the military.

A separate /home can save you hours or even days in several occasions however don't try crazy things like trying to have KDE of Ubuntu share same theme/settings with KDE6. A /var on a fast drive can create wonders too.

Remember even large corporations standardising on truly open protocols can be reversed after whatever the situation leading up to it is resolved.

I just remember Jabber/XMPP federation which included Google. Once Google decided they got big enough, they abandoned it. Of course nothing happened to the protocol itself, it is well and alive both on Fortune 500 and selected as official choice for presence protocol on internet2.edu

I don't like bluesky because I don't like it's owner. I don't like the owner because he thinks everyone is dumb and forgot the fact that nobody pointed a gun on his face to sell Twitter to some Arab dictators.

Chrome sends every single website you visit to Google. You already pay with your privacy.

Rise of fascism is a global problem and the fix is hard. It requires education, reading comprehension and even attention. It is such a hard thing to reverse so people in power don't do anything. Politicians love easy to steer masses.

It is coming from IBM because of that very same reason, they can't risk this argument getting too popular once again in 90 years. What happens when their ad shows next to nazis? You are confusing the outcome with the reason.

People not inside hotel industry would have zero clue about what kind of a leeching monopoly that is. Especially for little /boutique ones.

You can track this globally using this service (social category selected and USA). IMHO it is doing awesome.

https://www.appbrain.com/stats/google-play-rankings/top_free/social/us

I don't know if it is based on truth however these cars are called moving spies. I don't drive cars so I didn't investigate it and on the other hand Tesla is coming from Elon Musk a friend of sheiks and dictators.

Downloads doesn't mean usage. I really hope it happens one day but it isn't currently the case. We need governments, politicians and media to wake up.

(citation needed) Seriously there are zero sources, numbers and article ends with a typical interaction bait. As a Turkish person who knows the Turkish shiftdelete I was almost happy that they have an English version for global market but not this tabloid like junk.