Or download it in a bunch of other ways directly from Wikipedia.

Paying for an OS that phones home with incredible amounts of telemetry where you have to run adblock to get rid of the built in ads is just silly.

Microsoft was shit in the 90s and never stopped being shit.

I didn’t mean you specifically. It was more in general.

It’s weird that people don’t get more upset about ads in an OS they paid for.

My impression of flatpak is that it was built by someone who doesn’t like or use a terminal.

*Usernames

I compartmentalised a lot using several sock puppets

Are the crazies the ones banning threads?

Another reason to avoid it is that Jack Dorsey supports known anti-vaxxer and general conspiracy kook Robert F Kennedy Jr. Not the kind of people I’d want to run my social network.

And when they combine traffic from you with traffic from others they can infer more info.

They make money by selling information about you.

I don’t think it’s dying. I hope it’s a paradigm shift like when it changed from wild west lawless chaos to three or four huge companies running all of it. Maybe we end up with everything replaced by different distributed services. It’s going to incredibly annoying when half the search results are dead links or links to reddit but that annoyance can drive innovation.