I doubt they did - they only speak up for the fictional customer, meanwhile silently complying to whatever government requests user data from them.

They’ll say anything just to distract their users away from them being caught red handed in the act of giving away their data to the governments all around the world.

Classic business marketing.

I’d personally like to see a LotR in KCD2 format, maybe centred around Rohan or Dale.

I hope they go in depth with side questing and gameplay loops, rather than focusing on the main story. Kind of how Skyrim was a sidetracking paradise.

Don’t you think it’s a bit over the top representation of the MLs? They’re way more cohesive than that, and there’s no Stalin in the “Marxist-Leninist”.

It’s not about universal hate towards a particular nation - more about the idea how our current society is becoming progressively more unbearable by denying life basics to the common folk. Things like “earning a living wage” implies that below a certain threshold we don’t deserve to live. Real estate developers scalping the housing, making it unaffordable. All while a few hundred people owns a huge portion of wealth, constantly growing it and meddling into politics.

Other things like the reality of not actually being able to vote things away once totalitarian parties takeover a country’s legal systems using democratic means.

There’s plenty of that going as to why many like Karl Marx as a literary inspiration.

The evidence could be illegally planted, so that entire backpack is a fishy business, because the police officers turned their cameras off for some reason.

That’s a good reply I can agree with. I mean we all don’t want to be verbose all the time, but giving some context or counter argument is the point of a healthy discussion. Thank you for the source!

While the corpos are stomping on their own feet, it turns out that doing nothing (i.e. just existing) is the best strategy to apply.

Now perhaps we’ll get more (hopefully) good folks onto Lemmy. Sure, Digg may get some too, but I’m not sure of its long-term privacy respectfulness - being subject to the US laws and all that.

Excuse me, which part is uneducated, and what’s there to read about? I’ve been a solutions architect for years, and I haven’t seen a “one size fits all” type of software. That includes browsers too, which have their technical quirks, compatibility, and inherent risks. I’m capable of creating my own browser, but I don’t believe that makes me qualified to be called a “browsers expert for Earth”, so unless you happen to be Linus Torvalds of browsers, please keep it civil by not being judgemental of folks just discussing. Being open minded is better than being John Firefox, or John Chromium.

What about solo projects? One person is the single point of failure. Small teams without past history? That’s a coin flip, you either encounter genuinely good people, or those who push spyware on you. Or their project becomes abandonware - browsers have thousands of lines of code, and dependencies to be maintained. It’s a very taxing task, which definitely takes away the time for other hobbies. Which leaves us with true community-led projects, which persist regardless of the fate of a corporation or another entity.

Mozilla being sustained by Google just so that Google can’t be sued for monopoly is a vicious circle on its own - Mozilla CEOs are quite unethical at their corporate politics, and very unfair to their employees. Typical 80-90s management style.

So how is mentioning Vivaldi bad? Chromium exists regardless of Google, you don’t need Google to exist for the code base to be intact and developed by people across the globe.

Besides the obvious second-class citizenship treatment from web developers, Firefox is still lackluster in site/process isolation. Its users trade potential privacy gain for a cybersecurity vulnerability & less crash resilience - and most people aren’t Team Blue or Team Red to be on vigil at all times.

Glad to see another Linux phone being added to the current handful - the more, the merrier.

I guess for Americans they can look into the PinePhone by Pine64. There are probably a few other manufacturers out there too.

Can’t the US government and their enablers just calm down about waging wars? They’re quite literally one of the biggest issues of this world, and they think that they’re not the problem…

Thank you! I’ve had the pleasure to notice Lemmy (or this particular instance) is more of an open thinker space, and that’s great to see. It really reminds me of the Internet before the corpos got their hands to squeeze every penny out of the average netizen.

Then that’s great, at some point Mullvad’s browser development slowed down and I had the impression that it was abandoned. Glad that it isn’t.

And of course Vivaldi isn’t the best option out there - it’s just one of the least offending Chromium browsers. Mozilla itself isn’t in too great shape either, sketchy politics and they’re on life support from Google funding.

Firefox forks though? Quite good stuff out there. I’ve heard some recent praise for the Zen browser in particular.

And if you’re on macOS, then Orion browser is a great option (and WebKit-based).

I made the switch to Lemmy today, feels old school kind of good.

Reddit is not only allowing for bots to run rampant, but also it’s managed by the Epstein class and their supporters.

For cloud hosting, Hetzner is a solid one. Much cheaper than getting involved in AWS, which I’d recommend to stay away from. AWS, and Azure too, can perform their magic trick of generating plenty of unexpected costs, or raising their pricing on the run.

As for the software, Discourse works good as a modern forum. Just spin up a Hetzner cloud machine for about 5 EUR monthly, and setup the preferred software.

Isn’t Mullvad browser kind of deprecated? Vivaldi is quite good, despite its closed-source UI components.

Good for them, I guess. Petrodollar won’t last forever, and it shows.

I wonder how prices of international goods usually valued in USD would fare if USD could become much cheaper than EUR, etc.