Stock Android pushes a Google account really hard, but you can technically avoid it. You won't be able to download any apps from the Playstore until you sign into a Google account, BUT you can download F-Droid from a web browser, and from F-Droid you can download Aroura Store, and get all of your Playstore apps from there.
Or you can just use a degoogled ROM instead, which makes it a lot easier to avoid the Google account by default.
-Ori and the Will of the Wisps on Steam Deck
-Entropy : Zero 2 on desktop
They've both been amazing, especially Entropy. Can't believe it's free
Even though I don't play many MMOs anymore, I still boot up Old School Runescape every now and then. It's still a good time.
I've also heard good stuff about STAR WARS: The Old Republic, but have yet to try it myself
A surprising amount of games support linux anti-cheat now: https://areweanticheatyet.com
Oculus does not work, but that's expected for a Facebook product... Valve Index and HTC Vive work pretty good. I've personally played 5-10 VR games on linux with an Index I borrowed from a friend
PC ≠ Windows
-Your local linux evangelist
There's no one-liner that will make the importance of privacy "click" for most people, since it requires a bit of abstract thought, but this site is the closest I've seen to it: https://www.socialcooling.com
If you want to do something about it, check out privacyguides.org, or the lemmy community (and instance) run by its owner, [email protected]
I think from the perspective of the employee's reputation, it's an important distinction, due to the "with cause" vs. "without cause" implication.
When I hear "laid off" I think the person was probably a fine employee who they just couldn't keep around because higher-ups wanted more money. But when I hear "fired" I think "well did they take a shit on their boss's desk or something?"
Portal 2, Half-Life: Alyx, and Dishonored
Revolt is certainly better than Discord's privacy, but since it doesn't yet have E2EE, it doesn't seem like very privacy-focused software
Oh nice! Although, one issue from their website:
"Every message and file gets sent separately to every member in the group"
That seems fine for small groups, but for the typical Element crowd of large groups, I don't think that would go over well. If you send a 10MB file in a 2000-person chat, you'd be uploading 20GB of data...
Just a quick glance at all of those:
-Briar, Tox, and Cwtch don't have iOS clients
-SimpleX ~~doesn't have a desktop GUI~~ has issues with big groups (see comment below)
-Session has a 100-person group chat limit
-Syphon's own github states they are "still in alpha and we do not recommend using it where proven and independently verified security is required." Plus, they haven't had a release in over a year, so I'm not sure it's still maintained.
Element (or most Matrix clients) don't have any of those issues. Like I said, it's not perfect, but I see why it's recommended. All decent alternatives have significant downsides
FPIFX is a 2020 target date index fund, which is currently 50% stocks and 50% bonds.
VT is a total world stock market index fund - 100% stocks, 0% bonds.
The answer to this entirely depends on "how far away are you from retirement?" - if your retirement is 20+ yrs away, go VT. If it's like, 3yrs ago, go FPIFX.
For more info see the wiki page on glide paths: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Glide_paths