Without some sort of reproducible builds (which are really finnickey to actually get) this doesn’t really help though. Adding some set of malicious patches before doing the binary release is trivial.

It’s good that LibreOffice exists and it can be a decent replacement for someone writing a simple document every once in a while. I can not take anyone seriously who claims it is anywhere near as good as the MS stuff. Recently I created a presentation in Impress and it was hell on earth. I ran into multiple bugs and handling formatting was just horrid working with the master/template slides (or whatever they are called) was essentially impossible.

Currently working with OnlyOffice which works better by a considerable margin.

600k seems a bit too much. That’s a fairly large city.

Obviously it depends (for work when I can work on the train I am okay with longer journeys) but there has to be some sort of non-linearity involved, I agree!

If enough people think that a simple “yay” is funny enough to be upvoted near the top it probably is. If it is not upvoted it is not really a problem. Sure they are low-effort comments but in the age of ChatGPT, you can also write low-effort answers that are much longer. It is the voter’s responsibility, not the moderator’s, to separate interesting posts from non-interesting ones.

I would add exercise to point 4, doesn’t have to be a lot just get your body moving. If you are not into sports: a longer walk counts!

Ultimately, even for me as someone who cares about it, it’s just become one of those things that I don’t prioritize. Life is hard and at some point I’d rather get something cool done with gmail reading all my private conversations than struggle with my own email server.

Not saying it’s a great choice but ultimately life is short and we need to focus on doing what feels right. People have to pick their battles and that’s life.

Maybe we can agree on “100% of people who died consumed dihydrogen monoxide beforehand”.

Wrong, a mortality of 94.5% has been shown not even close to 100%.

Thanks for the clarification I should have mentioned this. Especially for calls it is actually relevant but I feel like very few people actually use secret chats.

To clarify because this is always a point of confusion whenever the topic comes up. Telegram is, of course, transport encrypted. Someone listening on the wire cannot read your data. It is not end-to-end encrypted, meaning Telegram can always read your messages and can, in principle, give anyone access.

Blockchains have the property of being append-only, so a blockchain is precisely what makes it impossible to delete transactions. That being said, in a distributed system, once the message leaves trusted servers, it is obviously also impossible to delete it.