People everywhere rely on Signal to protect their communication, including human rights workers, governments, board rooms, militaries, and millions of individuals around the world for whom privacy is an existential matter.

One government in particular.

Sure you can! Just turn it off then on again.

For me it was Africans but to each their own I guess.

Didn’t you know? Only criminals use Tor! \s

I was raised Anglican, then I attended a Methodist church, and I spent a decade or so in pentecostal and evangelical spaces. Nowadays I’m closer to being agnostic or atheist than anything else.

I had the exact same experience. Didn’t even know it was so disliked at the time

In no particular order.
Basic, Python, C , C++, Ruby, Java, Scheme, PHP, ASM, Bash. Does SPSS or CSPro count?

If it’s based on Debian then 90% of guides online will work with it anyway

The core problem is education and bad UX. People are taught how to do specific things (click here, type this word, press this button) without ever being told why. And the bad UX discourages exploration of different ways of doing things. So it never occurs to them that there might be a better way.

Personally, I think it’s ok for people to not have a deep understanding of their computer, but if you use one for hours every day, it makes sense that you know how to use it. Just like I don’t expect a driver to know how to take apart an engine but they should know how to change a flat or put in coolant.