I will as well, unless it's necessary for work/school, or to participate with the government, or not using it will isolate me from friends and family.
Google has close to absolute control of the internet, which is now an essential tool to participate in society. The amount of power they have is insane, it rivals governments.
IOS is worse. You can't even be sure that it's saved, let alone where.
So it's broken. Because it doesn't work in reality.
Huh? The ad revenue it replaces can't be more than $1/month.
I prefer reddit-esqe to twitter-esqe too, but I also think fediverse suits reddit-esqe better. The only reason I used Twitter was content from people I was interested in, and most of them aren't on Mastodon. Here, I don't care about any individuals, so Lemmy being fairly small is fine.
It's broken because infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible.
Surely a public entity would be exempt from taxes, no?
In my experince, kind of. You can log in with your Google account and it works fine, but that negates most of the privacy benefits. Alternatively, only the search is broken with anonymous login, so you can set Aurora as the app to open play.google.com links and open them from your browser and it downloads and updates like normal.
They aren't talking about a programming language, just the graphical tools in the programs you already have.
If you are interested in simple automation for your computer, learn python. If you are interested in simple automation in a browser, learn JavaScript.
You're absolutely right, not sure what I was thinking.
Usenet doesn't need a VPN because it's a direct download, it's encrypted with TLS.
For torrents, you will have to put your torrent client behind a VPN, but it's recommended to leave everything else(e.g. *arrs) not behind a VPN so it doesn't misbehave. If you're using docker, you can use a container with a built-in VPN like https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/config-options/