Proton is well past the good enough break point.

Honestly proton is a good choice to start for replacing most of your google/Microsoft suite.

Email, vpn, password manager. Etc. sure it’s not the literal best option on the market. But as far as one stop shop. Its good enough.

The privacy and security standards are acceptable and strikes a good balance between secure and obnoxious.

I installed it on my HTC one and have used the exact same wallpaper and layout ever since. Change is scary and let’s be real.

Who the ACTUAL fuck pays attention to the launcher they are using. They find one they like and then unless something breaks they forget they are even using one.

If someone can’t afford to be part of the hobby then they arnt goanna watch videos on that hobby

They’re going to move on. Find a new hobby that they can’t afford to participate in. Then find new creators that do content in that new hobby

Tech has priced out most of the lower and lower middle class. We can’t play anymore so we need to find something new to do

Don’t forget that most of us are getting priced out of the hobby in general. It’s not fun when you can’t afford to play around in your own hobby. You move on and find a new hobby.

Doesn’t help he has actually gotten dumber over the years.

He very clearly has fallen out of touch and basically is just a personality at this point.

So your not even watching a tech enthusiast millionaire dick around with things.

Your just watching a rich white dude dick around with tech and his company.

If it’s federated it’s easy to block. If it’s not it’s too small to care about really.

And if you just remove the ability for federation to function in your country you have fundamentally broken the system making it basically unusable for your people.

The federvise is extremely weak to censorship for your avg joe because it’s strongest point the federation system is also it’s biggest Achilles heel.

With out federation it’s just a series of less useful forums and blogs.

The system is designed to prevent corporate ownership from destroying it. But the idea that you can prevent a government and those in control of the infrastructure from blocking it? Is laughable.

You can in small ways wrong around it but you don’t need 100% censorship to win the game of cat and mouse. Even 50% of the biggest instances wins you the game.

The fact it’s interconnected makes it easy to just worm your way though banning everything.

Doesn’t matter if it’s all independently hosted. The greatest strength of the frediverse is the fact it’s federated.

That also it’s biggest fuck up point. These arent wholely independent forums.

And if the frediverse has to fully defederate everything to prevent itself from being scrubbed away. It defeats the entire fucking point.

Cause at that point just fucking go back to forums.

As someone who is friends with many furry gay liberal IT dudes and dudettes.

I can’t name a single one that wouldn’t bend the knee the moment their job is threatened and their option is getting fired and risking their entire career or just being a good cog in the machine.

The people who bend the knee the fastest tend to be the ones most at risk of being abused by the powers that be should they not comply. It’s the very fundamental reason that revolutions tend to be so explosive. There’s a LONG build up of people not pushing against authority because of fear and security.

So till the breaking point where the gay furry liberals have no options and it’s death or do what their bosses tell them. You can full well expect them to work right along with the bootlickers. They just are going to bitch about it more in the break room then the bootlickers.