Maar zeg Gertje, ik spiek helemaal nooit.

By definition a communist society is stateless, moneyless, and classless. Non of which China has achieved.

Fair enough :)

Is Boost really that much better than Eternity or Voyager that you put up with ads?

Same, but after unlocking the bootloader, it had a very clean LineageOS install.

Just self-host a VPN on a VPS so you can enable disk encryption and disable logging.

Exactly why I left that company.

Specifically free (libre) licences, as permissive licences allow corporations to improve/adapt the software without contributing back to the community.

I only work on software with GPL compatible licences now.

I was working for a place that was the market leader in a certain niche of simulation software. Their simulation was about 10x more efficient than their competitors. However, that version of the software is strictly off limits for the public, and made a version which they sold with a sleep statement so that it was only 1.1x faster than the next best solution. That way they could remain market leaders any time the competitors released a better version. Even though many systems rely on growing simulations to simulate bigger scenarios that could help save lives.

Just an example of capitalism impeding progress.

Privacy doesn’t exist without the ability to compile and self host.

I was using proton for a while, but they are pretty expensive if you want features like catchall and more aliases, on top of restricting clients.

Migadu offers complete email freedom for $20 ($10 for students) a year, unlimited accounts, aliases, identities, etc. I’ve been very happy with them.

They’re pretty decent flyers, it just looks ridiculous.