ProtonMail is run by SiliconValley techbros that stan for cia-backed Bellingcat. Their whole brand is just leveraging Americans impression of Switzerland being a secretive country. It's not a great company.
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Zettlr works better than Joplin. Obsidian works better than Joplin. LogSeq works better than Joplin.
All three have Linux desktop apps, sync with Nextcloud, and you can edit in the browser with the Nextcloud notes app.
I used Joplin for about a year and ended up using Obsidian because it's slick with its backlinking features. I found the speed to sync, and the way Joplin handles to-do items, really frustrating.
Logseq I think has a ton of potential but it's only in late-alpha/early-beta stage. GPL though.
Fairphone does modular better than the G5. They didn't commit to it.
Linux Mint has a firewall built in so you can stop apps from connecting to the internet.
If you're coming back from Windows I would recommend Linux Mint Cinnamon edition. Easiest transition.
KDE doesn't suck anymore with regards to being overly complex/customizeable, not for the past two years. It's still powerful but a lot of those crazy options are hidden away. It's also quite resource efficient.
I just use a spreadsheet.
I've heard good things about cozy.io but it seems focused on Europe.
I'm the fool 😄
LOL damnit! Got me.
Sounds like IBM has gotten involved and they don't know what they're doing.
FSFE is a a separate legal entity. I think this might lead to a rebrand of FSFE because they won't want to be associated with the FSF as a sister organization anymore.
The Journal of Cooperative Studies is looking for submissions for July 5th special episode of Cooperatives and Journalism. Newspaper written by people could fit in there.
The only other litigous bad actor with that sort of money to throw around I can think of is Oracle.