Yes. At the same time it weakens Section 230 in order to create additional free-speech weakening censorship opportunities.

French politicians passed a law that requires porn sites collect pii (identity) in order to access the site. PornHub won’t violate the privacy and security of their users, so they simply block the locales that pass such laws.

I have to admit, of all the nations on earth, I never expected this sort of puritanical theatrical authoritarianism out of the french.

When it’s really bad, it can be far worse than nothing.

Besides having an ancient codebase and encouraging poor programming habits, it’s creator abandoned the project for months after an embarrassing public spat with another company. Plus its UX has gotten consistently worse over the last several years. It may have gotten more powerful, but also much less usable.

It’s like WordPress, but good.

If your work can’t afford less than $20/seat/month for business-critical software, I’d start looking for a new job because your paychecks are about to dry up, anyway.

Corsair

I believe I found the problem.

The sad thing is that nobody knew there was a doomsday clock.

I’m not sure Microsoft would agree, but I feel that’s fair game since the registry is readily available and accessible to any user. It seems clear that Microsoft now treats Windows as a marketing tool to get people to subscribe to their other services, anyway. The way they cram marketing and adverts into every process and corner of the OS, it’s a wonder they are still trying to charge at all.

Aha, I didn’t realize that was an option.

I see there’s a notesnook-sync-server project. Thanks for pointing that out or I’d have missed it!

I think people here are honest about Linux, but there is a catch that often isn’t clarified - there are many distros and desktops out there and they are all optimized for particular use-cases.

Want to game and nothing else without technical headaches? Bazzite. Want to game and love to tinker? EndeavorOS. Want to do productivity stuff? Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Fedora.

Want updates fast, including graphics drivers? Arch or openSuse Tumbleweed. Want stability instead? Debian.

MacOS fan? GNOME desktop. Windows fan? KDE Plasma or Cinnamon desktop.

It goes on and on. I still keep a Windows partition because a few things I need simply wont work properly on Linux no matter what I do… notably, the Affinity suite. But Linux as a whole is getting better fast. More people are working on it and that work is starting to snowball. I’m hopeful that in a few years I’ll finally be able to get away from Windows entirely… but you’re right, not everyone can. Not yet.

A freedom-focused decentralized platform is naturally going to attract people who love freedom-focused decentralized software. You should learn to love that about Lemmy, lest your own misguided desires contribute to your suffering.

Check out the debloat script. It can’t get rid of everything (like Edge) but it makes a HUGE difference.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Windows 11 does not allow Edge to be removed. There may be some roundabout ways to do it, but the system actively puts up a LOT of roadblocks. It’s extremely trashy.

Windows 11 is freely available through official channels and only disables some personalization GUIs if you don’t activate. But you can still customize things without the GUI. There may be other gotchas to force you to pay up, but piracy isn’t even necessary.

I just checked it out and at first it looked perfect… then I started noticing local features like exports, notebook counts, etc that were paywalled behind a subscription. For an app that is “open source” that really rubs me the wrong way. I may look through the source code later. I have a feeling they’ve tied those features arbitrarily to web services to drive subscriptions, which would be really creepy… though not as creepy as if the code exists locally and is paywalled. sigh

I haven’t heard of notesnook. I’ll need to check that out.

I don’t love Obsidian, it’s just the best free app I’ve come across so far.

Replace OneDrive with a NAS. You can roll your own with something like OpenMediaVault.

Replace OneNote with Obsidian. It’s not FOSS, but it’s free and cross platform.

Good on them. Those are all solid choices.

I prefer Evolution over Thunderbird, personally. But to be fair, there aren’t any mail clients for Linux that I would say I genuinely like. I’m always open to suggestions, though.