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Isn’t Mozilla VPN just rebadged Mullvad (but you have to identify yourself)?

See also Microsoft and also Oracle Open Source Engagement.

Does Google have an equivalent with Android?

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There was a need to apologise; I was very wrong in context. So there! 😜 (I don’t see the point in maintaining a position which is entirely shown to be fatally flawed.)

Thank-you for pointing to Perplexica. When I subscribed (for a year), Perplexity - unlike ChatGPT -was alone in giving references so I could avoid citing rubbish by checking unless I knew them; now they all cite. I won’t be resubscribing and to have you refer this is really helpful. 😁

Thank-you.

Very fair point. I’m embarrassed. Sorry.

It’s not just a pricing issue. It’s an ownership issue.

Too many of the things we buy are not ours.

Yesterday I saw the article about VW cars which need a subscription to use the built-in capabilities. The car you bought doesn’t belong to you.

It’s late in the day. Perplexity Set itself up as a search engine with AI. Don’t know whose index they use.

I rarely use a search engine anymore directly. I used to use Startpage which is/was a proxy for Google. And everybody knows how useful Google’s results are these days.

So I use Perplexity for search.

A bag of frozen peas.

I hear you.

It was better in the old days when you could just write "drop table’ in the username prompt.

They might delete your account but the data is something else.

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Oh. Thank-you. I’ll read through.

Thank-you. Recently rebuilt my Arch Rescue build and saw that section in doing the UKI dance.

I don’t mind the Microsoft keys being there at all. I just don’t think tying myself to them is particularly clever.

From your final part. I think I need to go back and reread it. Thank-you again.

I thought it was a Microsoft centric thing in that the certificate authority was either Microsoft or signed by Microsoft?

Maybe I need to read about it more? Can you direct me to the general area?

Being beholden to Microsoft doesn’t sound like something anyone needs.

Until that ends I’m doing best to avoid secure boot. I don’t want to.

Do you trust any other provider? Amex used to have a payment type app but I’m not sure I’d call it a wallet. From what I remember Amex wasn’t well used in Germany.

You’re better of looking in the degoogle communities. Sorry, I still haven’t learned to cite the communities here properly (there seem to be two forms). Type degoogle into a community search box (all one word, no hyphens)

This is such a wonderful project. I am so grateful that it exists.

Thank-you everyone. Truly.

If you’re new to Linux, you won’t stay with the distro anyone recommends for more than a month. It’s a truism.

I’m not you. You’re not me.

That said. Ubuntu isn’t the Ubuntu of old. The real selling point is the zfs, but you have all the other NIH stuff like snap etc. I’m not a zfs fan but I appreciate that it’s got a huge fan base.

One thing to say is that you don’t have to have a one and only. I have at least two distros I use daily for workstation stuff. I use Fedora for typing and Arch for backups, debugging, rescue, and other fiddling about stuff (because Fedora gets in the way sometimes). Every distro has the same set of commands.

distrowatch.com is your friend.

It’s not just UK, but Europe-wide soon. I imagine that the various (other) -eyes countries will be joining with similar legislation.

And then The law of unintended consequences will strike.