Like, there are a lot of reasons to switch to linux and plenty of them are compelling. But its an absolute fantasy to believe you’re somehow immune to surveillance because you’re using the same software as Amazon’s EC2. Does anyone really believe the NSA hasn’t cracked Linux Mint yet?

It’s much harder for the government and bad actors to hide backdoors in open source software than making a deal with a private company

dismissed as a conspiracy nut.

The government and bad actors use this as a strategy to attack their opponents and control public opinion.

Protests crack down on the internet has been going on for quite some time, don’t just blame it on trump but on the whole government and its infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

This is the sort of news that does nothing but bring attention away from real problems. Blame these idiots for being a bunch of liars and criminals (including the pope) not for wearing the wrong suit color.

Go ahead and send me your phone number. If you don’t want to do it please provide data that i’m compromised.

It takes 2 to tango. It’s like trying to send an email from a self-hosted email server without following all of Google’s rules/guidelines…

Don’t say bullshit, a chat is not mails, matrix federation works similarly to lemmy

Matrix is centralized too in practice

There are plenty of different available homeservers and you can host yours.

It is not. We are on a privacy sub on lemmy, services that require mandatory phone number are far away from been fine to use.

Any pr campaign these idiots do look ridiculous but just like ads it works or they wouldn’t be doing it. The average person probably falls for it.

Don’t get fooled, trying to look “cool” is part of his pr campaign. Their favorite game they spend all day playing is hoarding money and power off people.

less stupid than the one you just made

Now it’s even worst ok but we are discussing why people don’t care and my suggestion to find an answer is to think about why you didn’t care in the past when it was bad already.

OP seem to be lamenting only about the “latest” US government policies.

To help you find an answer i’ll return you the same question: why did you not care about US building concentration camps and following the fascist playbook until now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange

Nope you can’t run chatgpt locally.

Ok spanish pm show us your ID and your home address

it’s about enabling the PC gaming ecosystem, removing barriers to people who want to create games.

Their main product is a proprietary third party software launcher. Valve is a for profit company that goes as down as pushing gambling to kids in order to milk more billions for its ceo.

It’s about making money and buy valve ceo a new mega yacht

play stupid games win stupid prizes

that’s what you get for playing corporate games.