There are certainly useful uses for trusted computing, like discouraging tampering with distributed computing projects, but they are used much more often to implement DRM and restrict hardware. They don't it to be impossible, just hard enough that the average user gives up.
Currently it is possible for an average user to to install Linux, but if that process requires hardware tampering (no normal person will decap chips), almost no one will do it.
Check out OpenAssistant, a free to use and open source LLM based assistant. You can even run it locally so no one else can see what your doing.
Counterexample: the many cases of large companies (Best buy, Cisco, Skype etc) being sued over violations of the GNU GPL. The original authors of the code often get awarded millions in damages because a large company stole their work.
Redreader still works for some reason.
Because Lemmy instance namespace usernames, short username are actually available.
A lot of people have old phones whose batteries are to degraded to be useful for much, those could be used as servers with much less problems then any other phone (no spotty connectivity, no changing mobile network ips, no cutting into the battery life of your phone)
With the amount of ads I see for things like NordVPN or PIA openly advertising bypassing geo blocking I doubt many people haven't heard of them. (Those who haven't will soon hear about them from friends)
Embrace side quests. If your stuck on motivation, do an easy part first, or work on a related project for a bit to build up momentums. Once you start working on something it becomes much easier to continue, but you won't get anywere by staring at the hard part.
eXtract Zee Vucking Files
Also works for the reverse:
Compress Zee Vucking Files
(Swap Zee for All if you want it to auto detect compression)
Honestly JS seams saner then python, it's wierd but rather sane. The only really bad parts of JS are the type coercing == and =! operators which are very broken
For example "" == 0 and 0 == "0" are both true, but "0" == "" is false.
Same for C, & yields a pointer to a value, and * allows you to access the data. (For rust people, a pointer is like a reference with looser type checking)
WAKE UP AND... SMELL THE ASHES