I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

1. Some people pay for Discord and they still exploit their data.
2. Some people pay for Lichess and their whole website is free of charge without tracking/advertising.

Yes, things cost money. Yes, ideally those who can pay for it should. No, something being free doesn’t legitimize unethical means to make a profit.

⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

The entire stock market has become a meme stock pyramid scheme. No price makes sense; it’s all glorified gambling making life on this planet worse for most living things.

⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

By using unfriendly language online?

Brain rot only for the right… 28 TikToks Later…

Even though I use EndeavourOS (Arch easy installer), I won’t hesitate to vouch for Mint. I’m using its Cinnamon desktop environment (DE) and it’s the best user experience I’ve had after having used Xfce, KDE Plasma, Budgie, Gnome, et cetera.

Hate Microsoft et al., dislike software.