They’re free to set it up themselves.

And the moment a person with political stance X forks it, then its X software. That is the benefit of the GPL license.

As with any change, it will always include some gains and some losses. Until you are at peace with these you won’t be able to make the change.

My first suggestion would be to find alternatives to these windows-only softwares and learn to use them while you’re still on windows. Play the shit out of the windows-exclusive games you play until you get bored of them.

The choice of linux distro doesn’t matter as long as you go with one of the big ones (Debian, Fedora, Arch linux). You will run into issues anyways, might as well go with a distro you will easily find google results for.

The goal is mass surveilance. Sensible solutions are unwelcome. The current politicians need to be voted out.

Is it FOSS? If not then I don’t care about the product. If yes then I don’t care who made it.

Wrong, old printers are the only ones that were built to last and are easier to maintain.

Thank you very much for these links. I really like the ideas Matrix + Element, and I think they have the best shot of making something very usable. Hopefully this gets implemented one day and I can actually make the switch!

Edit: While clicking around I came across this: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/issues/5397#issuecomment-3714128184

Does this mean it should be already implemented or am I reading it wrong?

Agreed, but metadata not being encrypted remains a fact. Sure, metadata of a single message might not mean much, but when combined with metadata of many messages from many users you can find out a lot about a person and their habits. Especially when cross-referencing with other data sources (social media of other users, phone location, etc.).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tL8_caB35Pg

Message metadata - such as sender, recipient, device ID, and timestamps - is not encrypted at the transport layer, and in many cases remains visible to the homeserver

https://wire.com/en/blog/matrix-not-safe-eu-data-privacy

If the Matrix protocol actually implemented E2E encryption properly I would love to use something like this.

I’m guessing they want to bundle it with the machine and have it as a sort of “demo” game.

Hold sellers accountable. Actual fix.

Monero will be illegal to own within the EU next year.