Plenty of companies are quite happy to pay for github licenses

Free github actions

You’re a sysadmin or a software engineer, not a non technical layperson like a teacher, accountant, nurse, web developer, etc. using a lenovo ideapad to do their taxes.

Depends on the car, I don’t think it’s too hard to find one from a scrapyard

Most people are also just not going to bother changing their OS lol. Most steam deck users are using Linux and most PC users are using windows.

I think it’s like why people don’t change the engine in their car, sure you could could get a better one but most people are happy with their engine and don’t want to mess with it

Windows users don’t think about or even realize that other operating systems exist

Sure but there are a lot of private trackers

I don’t disagree that you should treat any torrenting site as compromisee

I would think they would be better about it because private tracker accounts cost money and big companies don’t have infinite resources to fight piracy, they can’t get every tracker.

Pretty much every public tracker is monitored

Yes

Not the end of the world but not great. Realistically UB0’s functionality should be part of the browser instead of an extra add on, Google is right to kill ManifestV2 for security and UB0 is the only MV2 extension anyone should actually be using.

They’re the only truly mainstream company with E2EE backups among other things. iOS is also much more secure than stock android, only Graphene OS is better.

The browser

They’re the only mainstream hardware company that takes user privacy seriously. Bad on right to repair and openness though

Why tf does everyone trust apple for anything? They’re a pretty awful company.

I use Helium for those websites

Google TV is the closest

Google TV is the least worst option in terms of open source optionality, Apple TV is best for privacy as is

It’s more common than you think, like Apple has done a great job integrating privacy and security features into their OS both because they don’t really stand to gain from user data collection the same way Google does, its a good selling point, it helps them protect their app store revenue streams etc. nd also because they actually care about it.

OTOH they are agreesively anti right to repair

It’s not like people have a choice lol what are you going to do find a company using slack

Features Microsoft wants to push and features companies want. It’s widely used because IT departments can just buy Office 365 and have all of the office apps and support for however they’re hosting the rest of their office 365 apps but that doesn’t mean it’s good

Valve is a good company in that they make an enormous amount of money running steam and they use that money to fund generally positive things. That’s about as good as you can hope tbh