Proton seems on the wrong side of the usability - privacy spectrum. Every last feature I'd want from an online provider is impossible or massively neutered by the overly strict security.

I wish there was a similar service in a trustworthy country with a more sane level of safety, like opt-in encryption for example.

A world where everyone does the best they can to avoid and/or fight against bad systems is absolutely the ONLY POSSIBLE WORLD where positive change can happen.

How else would the world change if not through individuals choosing to do the right thing? Are really expecting the same people that have fucked us(rich/politicians) to spontaneously develop a conscience and change the world out of the goodness of their hearts?

Before you bring up guillotines, those ALSO require individuals to make personal choices and changes and take risks.

Sure, on board, but we the people would still need to then build a new world with different systems valuing different things. Most of those things are on that list.

Without the individual changing, we'd just end up swapping rich people.

You can also copy paste by manually copying text by hand, would call that a valid alternative to Ctrl-C/V?

Writing a CHIP-8 Emulator was really fun. There's a lot of resources out there and it's really fun, small low level project you can "finish" in a week of casual coding. As someone who was mostly coding highlevel in my job, I really learned a lot.

And that one single line that makes zero FUCKING SENSE AND YOU SPENT 5 DAYS TRYING TO FIX IT!!! That definitely needs a comment so the next idiot (aka you in 6 months) doesn't think "what useless shit is this? Let's delete this!".

Wie weit bis du denn vom Büro weg? Meine Erfahrung sagt, dass ausschliesslich die Leute Fans vom Büro sind, die relativ nahe am Büro wohnen.

Imagine a website where EVERYONE sees the exact same content. You could just calculate that content once, save the result, and give everyone that pre-calculated result. This is called caching (roughly speaking).

Now imagine the other extreme: NOONE sees the same content. That means you have to do your (comparatively) expensive calculations every single time. That requires a lot more compute power, esp. if you want to maintain a decent speed.

Most websites aren't entirely one or the other, but in general anything customizable will make things just a little less cache-able, and therefore everything a little more compute-intensive. Blocking is one of those customizations.

Considering that everyone in this thread is acting like ANY kind of microtransaction is the spawn of Satan, I really don't think it's a wrong equivalence.

The obvious, boring answer on both sides is, of course, nuance. Microtransactions and DLCs are not categorically evil. And also, this little bit of launch DLC ain't gonna kill anyone (just like 99% of launch DLC). It's always just some small, inconsequential cosmetic or truly mediocre micro-mini-sidequest.

A lot of games are only possible because of microtransactions. Love 'em or hate 'em, MOBAs would've long died without microtransactions.

Sure, and if you could somehow demonstrate that advocating for 100% means those 100 people are definitely, totally not going to change their consumption at all, you'd have an actual point.

Can you explain what the collective in "collective action" is made up of, if not individuals? How does your solution not require individual action? "My individual vote won't change anything" is the exact argument you're making.

But let's pretend a world filled with meat eaters would vote for the anti-meat party. Suddenly, meat costs 3 times as much (at the very least). Do you genuinely believe people would simply accept this change? There wouldn't be protests the very next day? People wouldn't vote for the yes-meat party immediately?

Any political action needs to be supported by the populace. Otherwise known as individual action.