Microsoft products are always so hit or miss. I find Outlook to be a lot better than Gmail, but at the same time it lacks in so many places.

My emails seemed to go through pretty well. It’s been blocked by Discord and steam. But other than that, emails seem to go through pretty well.

Based on what the article says:

Many people now use ChatGPT like they might use Google: to ask important questions, sort through issues, and so on. Often, sensitive personal data could be shared in those conversations.

I don’t hate copilot but I seldom use it enough to justify having a taskbar button for it

I hope Mastodon will incorporate this

Well you’re in luck, there’s the Pleroma and Misskey family of apps out there that are ActivityPub compatible. Pleroma also has Akkoma as well, and there are far too many Misskey forks to count. Both of them support S3 I believe.

I use it sometimes, there can be a bit of drama at times, but it’s pretty nice.

That’s not my problem personally. It’s that they’re wasting time on stuff like this when they could be spending it on enhancing their browser in other ways

vivaldi also has an adblocker on android

As per usual, Mozilla seeking experimental stuff for their browser instead of creating things that would be likely more accessible then the framework required for AI

If you’re worried about losing access to your email, consider switching to one with custom domain and a provider that supports it.

My hope for XMPP is that new and better clients emerge than the ones that already exist. Matrix has this same problem as well.

‘Matrix-based’ is now specified as a requirement in massive public and private sector tenders

I’m pretty sure that most people beyond the tech field know what Matrix is. At least not by name

I am still waiting patiently for a lot of things before I switch back to Firefox. Like passkeys (apparently they’re coming soon), a better interface for android tablets, native tab groups and split screen tabs and sidebar apps like in Vivaldi and Edge without the need for add-ons.

There is just so much stuff that they need to do, and yet their approach seems to be just integrating functionality that would have been better as an optional addon.

Those don’t work on Apple silicon Macs. sadly

I kind of want to go for the framework laptop, but I still do like ARM and given I want to do more stuff around machine learning in the future, which is already kind of difficult to run large language models with only 8 gigabytes of RAM, it at least kind of runs with ARM. On my basement PC, It will barely do anything

I still hate that they killed the mid-range model. Your option is the lower end MacBook Air with no fan, or the higher-end MacBook Pro. There is no in between.

I absolutely love the snappiness of the m1 chip in my current 2020 MBP, and how much more efficient ARM is compared to x86, but it seems really hard to justify going an extra 300$ in the future.

I really just wish they would bring back the original MacBook (with no suffixes at the end)

Ugh and I just got my dad to use it instead of SMS

(No he will not use Signal)

This article he just goes:

We should all use PGP, SSL or equivalent tools; VPNs, Tor and/or SSH tunnelling; IPFS, or other distributed file systems — and ditch proprietary OS’s in favour of Linux or truly free Android distros. We should switch to Protonmail or similar webmail; to Matrix, Signal or similar messaging. Ad-blocking, URL cleansing and third-party cookie rejection should be the default for everyone. Those tools and techniques should cease to be arcane nice-to-haves for nerds: we must get more non-technical people onboard.

All this is a moral imperative to those of us who have the ability and the means to follow this strategy and to educate others about it.

He just relies entirely on the “moral obligation” people have to use this stuff, but then doesn’t give any advice on how to convince people to actually use this stuff besides “using our abilities and the means to follow the strategy and educate others about it”. Because I’ve certainly been trying that for ages and it hasn’t worked. Of course a good amount of that stuff I don’t even think I would use. I find Protonmail encryption to be annoying in compatibility since you actually have to pay to get the desktop program to decrypt your email, Signal, and a lot of Matrix clients lack a lot of the nice messaging features that extend beyond the app itself (Like Google Assistant/Siri support). Also not sure if OP has seen the current state of using an adBlocker on the web. I’m not sure if everyday people would want to actually deal with that. I certainly can’t get my mother to use an adblocker, and whenever I try to instate pi hole onto our network, within moments, someone complains about the internet “not working correctly”.

The argument is almost always “we need to start mandating these really private things onto everyone, don’t give them any choice on it” and never “how can we make good enough things people will want to use with privacy by design?”. I look at apps like Nextcloud and home assistant that have created better experiences than what the market currently offers. And I wish that I could see more of the same with that with apps that are private by design, and can integrate well with just about anything.

Already, I see a lot of stigma around cryptocurrency. I don't know if it'll ever take off thanks to stuff like NFTs ruining it.