Helix because it's simple and works without tweaking it.

YouTube is probably going to be the next platform to entrumpify

Considering how he runs a business whose goal is to capture the privacy crowd and how a large portion of the privacy crowd is made up of those "Libertarian" tech-bro types, it might be more than just "no clue about American politics", especially since he's also doing stuff like promoting Bitcoin through Proton Wallet which is also popular among "Libertarian" tech-bro types, and the article used for marketing that both-sidesed the problems the "left" vs "right" experience and equated the Democrats with the "left", which is popular among "Libertarian" tech-bro types as well. The 88 in his Reddit username is also suspect regardless of him claiming that it's there because it's his birth year. People who know how to operate a business usually aren't doing it out of stupidity, so I'm not going to give him the benefit of the doubt on this, especially since the entire platform depends on trusting that they aren't doing anything shady.

no they're just negative people

If your really feeling paranoid go ahead and use TOR browser to login to lemmy. Assuming they dont block TOR connections here I’ve never tried.

.w*rld blocks Tor a lot of times, .ml hexbear lemmygrad.ml do not

I just bought it

I'm using a 6 pro and it works fine

For Uni I use Typst for most documents nowadays and sometimes LibreOffice. If I need to open a .docx I use LibreOffice for that as well. It does fuck up the formatting sometimes though so if you have an annoying professor that requires .docx files perfectly formatted you might need to use Word in a VM or a lab computer if they're available.

Teams works on Firefox so I just use it there (there's also an extension that lets you install PWAs using Firefox so you can do that to Teams as well).

For Excel, I don't use it so I'm not sure what features you need and whether LibreOffice has all of them.

R works fine on Linux.

Well in Idaho, just about everyone I know who lives there supports Israel. And in Texas there are a bunch of people criticizing Kamala and our state's Democratic candidate for Senator for being radically pro-Hamas.

They organize in ways that make a bigger impact to the community than voting for one of two fascists.

So now we're going to have AI training other AIs

To answer your question, I joined Lemmy when it was a niche open source project then left because nothing was happening until the mass migration happened