As an example I’m on Linux for a decade now but I also use proprietary services. I use Jellyfin and Netflix, Vim and Jetbrains IDEs, Chess.com instead of Lichess, WhatsApp instead of Matrix.

Sometimes the value proposition does it for me, sometimes it’s the network effect. I’ve ditched reddit because I like Lemmy more but I can see how someone wants to stay in touch with their niche communities that don’t really exist on Lemmy. Probably some people use both.

Pope Francis was a great pope.

He removed the necessity to get authorization from the Vatican in sexual abuse cases.

Allowed some women to vote in the Synod of Bishops.

Took a stance against death penalties.

Apologised for Catholic Church actions against indigenous Canadians.

Generally whenever he took a stance it was the morally right one.

The Catholic Church is still corrupt but Pope Francis was a great man.

That will be tricky since the king of the popes is the Holy See which is the throne instead of the person that “delegates” authority to the pope.

I’m gonna cast doubt on this. It happened too conveniently after people figured out long distance sea travel.

If they would have floated it’s much more likely that it happened somewhere in the last million years rather than the last 500.

Use a filter and remove everything dedicated to US politics and Reddit to reduce the quantity by 80%

That will depend on what type of Home Ownership Association the house is on. Some of them mandate a well kept grass lawn and you get fined for not moving.

I torrent a lot on Linux and use Qbittorrent. Surfshark has a great VPN on Linux.

If you want to get into it then Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and nzb360 ($10) with Jellyfin is a great stack to manage your library but needs a bit of work to set up. You can then use the phone to download and search and watch it with an android TV app.

I had some issues setting it up with a ublue fedora immutable distro which are pretty non-existent on most standard distros.

Fairphone comes pretty close.

This is what the world looks like when you step outside

I blame capitalism for this one. Misinformation and lobbying is very profitable. Using prior knowledge of what laws are coming into effect is also very profitable. Retiring and becoming a lobbyists is also.

In the US hard facts have become debatable and there’s a shitty system that massively benefits two political parties.

I don’t necessarily blame the people since the system is rigged against people’s interest. They get mad and vote anti-establishment which is still very much the establishment.

Save the children and Doctors without borders have a CEO as a counter example

CEO is basically the executive authority of a company. The board decides whether the priority is to make as much money as possible or not.

Why though? Most non profits have a CEO, the power the CEO has can differ a lot, just like presidents globally.

I just finished Monster, an anime from 2004 that is really good

“We need to get WMDs out of Saddam’s hands”

The ones you use. If you use KDE, Thunderbird, Gimp or whatnot you should consider donating to those specifically.

Still, don’t forget Wikipedia, it’s one of the greatest Open Source projects of all time.

It’s safe to wear but it’s also probably just plastics. Microplastics on skin and other long term microplastics are still not in yet so you could say it’s maybe not as safe as cotton. It’s the same material as more expensive stuff though so the price tag doesn’t really change the safety part.

It also has support for digital signatures that work with saved inserted signatures

I have KDE Neon on my Laptop and Bazzite on my desktop/server but I want to switch it up a bit.

I’d like to get a TuxedoOS laptop with specific hardware fix and I’m also thinking about EndeavourOS these days to try out for a couple of months.

For the server I think I’d probably to just go for Ubuntu because it’s piss easy to manage because of the experience I have with or just the Fedora KDE. I really like Bazzite though for all the batteries included.

I prefer manufacturer Android on my phone but I hate it with a fiery passion. I have an uncommon Xiaomi phone and the memory management is abysmal where they kill activities almost instantly after they go away from view. I like it because the battery life is amazing. I’d prefer to use LineageOS but it’s not supported on my phone.

Loads of great experiences and tons of diversity. I’ve had lot of great experiences through video games and it’s never too late to start.

You could start with by looking through some video game threads and asking more specific question like “I’m new to video games, what are some games that you recommend that are not to hard to pick up” or something.

Recommend: Portal

I personally think you should give Portal a shot, it’s a 3D puzzle game that you can run on any computer and is one of the best games of all time, it’s also pretty funny on top of that.