Tyson is an incredibly unpleasant person though. It’s hard to see past his shitty personality.

Yeah that’s what we are having here too, huge cpu usage and issues with outgoing federation. Sounds spot on.

What we are seeing is that outgoing federation of posts and comments works after a restart, but new posts and comments made on the local instance are not federating to other instances until the next restart. This is with version 0.19.1.

Also after a restart, the server eats a lot of cpu for several minutes. Im guessing this is normal with the federation queue being processed but cant be sure.

Why are these companies the worst? It’s a honest question since I actually don’t know much about them.

Never be sorry about stuff like this. You are not dumb just for missing some random comment on the internet. :)

Nvidia is bad and also Ubuntu is using a very old kernel.

I think you should try installing Pop OS instead.

It was a while ago… Not sure when. But I remember the news about it. :)

Oh OK, thanks.

Meta and Twitter are social media companies. They have access to peoples tweets. It’s similar to having access to these messages you and me are typing, except many people use their own names there.

It’s not too bad privacy wise, just social messages.

Google on the other hand has the private searches of billions of people. Everything you put into a search engine because you are worried, afraid, sick, or curious about something.

Google records all this private activity and saves it under your personal profile, and then uses cookies to track every web site you are visiting on the web (using not only Google search but Google analytics cookies that exists on almost every website).

They also combine this data with whatever you are doing on your android phone, or what places you go to using Google maps, or what video meetings you are having with Google meets, what emails you have in Google Mail, what video you watch on YouTube, what calendar events you are having with Google calendar… And so on.

Then they feed all this data into algorithms designed to figure out what you are likely to do next. They sell this data to advertisers so they can target you with ads. They also send this data to American agencies like nsa to be stored and analyzed.

There is a giant difference here between Google and the other companies you mentioned. Google is literally watching moments from people’s entire lives, while the others only see your social media messages.

This is why Google is completely absurdly in it’s own class of anti-privacy. No other company has this amount of data about people’s every moment awake.

Now they use their dominant position to try and take over the entire web, so it’s not possible to escape them anymore using a different browser, blocking cookies and tracking, or using another search engine.

If everyone is forced to use their browser, we have lost everything good about the web.

They should be treated like the cancer to a free web they really are.

No no, that’s not what it says.

They are removing this on Wayland:

Force Font DPI spinbox in System Settings > Appearance > Fonts

And this on both Wayland and Xorg:

Adjustable icon sizes for many icons in many KDE apps in System Settings > Appearance > Icons

Darth Vader wants to protect children… Right.

You don’t have to do the keyring thing manually anymore, pacman takes care of it. :)

I haven’t done that but yes, it’s pretty much unheard of that the user can actually control what shows up in search if you come from Google-land.

For a conversation to happen, there must be trust. I don’t think anyone trusts them, so there is no attempt at serious communication.

They should be treated with contempt.

Google, the Internet Government.

More like organic user reviews I would say.

Ah yes.

I also worry a bit about all these email aliases I use now. They do tie me to fastmail for the future. And if they would disappear, it would be a pain to replace. But that’s life. Have to take some risks. :)

That’s an apples to oranges comparison. Proton is not a web search engine.

Edit: But for email, sure. :)

Yup try it and set as default in the browser. You will start to see a lot of sites that never showed up in google also. They have these “listacles” in search results where they group relevant sites into a small list, which makes it super simple to go to them for results.

If you want a sample search, try “best tv shows 2023” or something like that.

It’s honestly why I’m paying for it.

I also pay for email for the same reason. :)

For email, Fastmail is just excellent. I use their email aliases function a lot. So you can one-click generate an email to use when you sign up on a service and when you don’t use that service anymore, delete the email address.

Makes it impossible for them to sign you up on advertising lists since you can just delete that email address if they annoy you.