This is the open source community, not the privacy community. Privacy isn't the only reason to prefer free software. Some of us enjoy having the four freedoms.
Note that this fork relies on the proprietary Google library to do this. It's not really an alternative.
Discord is a proprietary centralized service that is hostile to privacy and third-party clients.
People are recommending the proprietary FUTO voice app. This app, and other FUTO apps like Greyjay, are non-free.
https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2023/10/18/grayjay-is-not-open-source/
It is in fact non-free. (The article is about Grayjay, a product from the same company that uses the same license)
Not an endorsement of ExpressVPN, I've learned to avoid companies that sponsor on youtube. However, I believe you don't need the proprietary app to use the service, you could use a free software OpenVPN client such as this one.
They do offer support for OpenVPN although, unsurprisingly, they heavily push their proprietary client as the preferred way to use the service. This alone would be enough to discourage me from using it or recommending it.
Interesting - they don't seem to publicize this at all on their site, nor do they mention the LGPL anywhere (that I could find). Their site only seems to offer it under an EULA.
I wonder if these LGPL sources are the full source of the application, then.
edit: prior revision of the readme clarifies that, although the Plasticity source code is LGPL, it uses a proprietary library which makes the resulting product proprietary. Presumably the expensive licenses are for this proprietary library and not for Plasticity itself. This proprietary library seems to be Parasolid, the geometry kernel. I wonder if there is a fully free alternative.
If you mean this Plasticity, it doesn't appear to be actual Free (libre) Software, just regular old EULA proprietary software.
Just started trying out Scoop recently and I'm finding it fits my taste more than chocolatey so far. I appreciate the fact that it keeps apps isolated in a standard user directory, doesn't require admin, and uses plain git repos with json manifests instead of whatever chocolatey uses. In some ways it's similar to some things guix does, although obviously they are extremely different in concept.
Not a copypasta, although given the average community member's understanding of this issue comes from memes and copypastas, maybe it should become one.
You don't need windows. Remove all your windows and adopt a gnu and a penguin. They'll keep you safe and private.