They can say the same about me, right? I have so many communication apps on my phone, why do I draw the line on Facebook Messenger?

Most likely you’re the only person they know on Signal and it makes more sense to them that you move to Facebook rather than moving their entire friend-sphere into Signal.

First of all normie not an insult or a derogatory term. The term “normies” is often used in many niche communities to refer to someone outside the community. It has nothing to do with being smart, privileged or experienced. It means more like “the average user” or “the typical person”. Example: a person in the boardgaming community may refer to you as a normie, not because you’re dumb but because you don’t play hobby boardgames (check out Brass: Birmingham, what a game).

The problem isn’t about comprehending the problem, most people understand that Facebook is selling their data. They just don’t care. They would rather have their data sold than to have the trouble to move to yet another communication app. WhatsApp is working just fine, Facebook is sparking joy. They don’t care.

“Normies won’t do X” is a perfectly acceptable way to express that the hurdles are too high for the average user. The average user wants a sleek UI, a user friendly experience and most of all they want to be in the place everyone is already at. The average Joe doesn’t want to be the first guy on Simple X, they actually really want the hassle free platform everyone is already at.

Also, the next great communication app is constantly changing. It used to be IRC, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal, Matrix, Simple X, Session. I’m sorry to say that the average person is not willing to migrate that often. Facebook works, their friends are already there, they stick to it. This isn’t elitism, it’s just stating what I see.

It’s not elitist, it’s realist. They don’t want to install Signal just as much as I don’t want to install Facebook messenger.

Yes you can nag people but it will more often than not have the same effect as when people try to convince me to install Facebook messenger.

If the worst part about Signal is having a third party send you an SMS to confirm your phone number then that’s amazing.

Why are you hating on Ladybird when its not even in alpha stage?

I used to have Mullvad and switched to Proton because I use pretty much their entire suite…

If you don’t need port forwarding, I think Mullvad is superior in everything. Such a great service, highly recommend it.

It’s single thread, one file at a time.

Is the video catalog larger for paid customers?

I searched for my topics of interest and hobbies but barely got any hit.

Sucks they don’t have a trial period.

If you want to create keyboard layouts, keyd is very good for that. You can create several keyboard layers and use whatever key you want as a modifier.

I use it to mimic the windows “US International with dead keys” layout that I’ve grown used to but it can do so much more.

I use keyd

Very customizable.

Not with Hyprland, I had to set a nice chunk of variables to make it work properly.

Gaming on linux is surprisingly good right now. Other than those games that require kernel level anti-cheats, most games work really well.

… But in case it wasn’t clear, the user suggesting linux from scratch is joking. Use Linux Mint or Ubuntu if you’re starting your linux journey. Try it on a virtual machine, for instance.

Normie is not an insult or derogatory. It just means “normal person”, who is usually not very tech savy.

Most Normies don’t care about privacy. They know, accept and are ok with their data being collected and sold in “free” services.

Normies don’t care about that. They care about WhatsApp, Instagram and tiktoks.

Sure but what’s a viable alternative for normies? It would be simple if a viable alternative existed. For normies, I reiterate.

You can ask the receptionist “Where is the Linux section?”, walk up to it and there it is. And you can grab a book and skim through it to see whether it suits you.

You can also go to google, ask “How linux works” and skim through the results.

I’m not saying libraries are bad, they’re obviously amazing (and yes, I’ve been to libraries lol). However, in these sort of questions OP is usually looking for personal recommendations, something that you already read, heard about or found interesting to share. Yes library has books, but which book would you personally recommend OP to read? Which one do you like the best and why?

Recommending the library when someone is asking for information on a specific topic is almost as helpful as pointing them to a search engine. “Just google it and use whichever result you like”.

Self hosting an email server is a pain in the ass and I don’t really recommend it.

Buying your own domain and using it in whatever email provider you want is very easy and gives you ownership over the email address. You may switch providers freely without needing anyone else to do anything.

While aosp with microg is a step into the right direction, it’s not Google free. Most android code is made by Google and streamed to aosp.

So you think people must only use software made by nice guys but you can use hardware, services, books, movies, etc. from whoever? What makes software so special?

You’re not hosting a lemmy instance but here we adding content, and therefore value, to the platform. I don’t host hyprland either, I am leeching off the entire devs work for zero dollars. Does that make it okay now?

I give more importance to qualities like open source, safety, privacy and performance other than who supports trump or not.

I’ve gone though the Degoogle journey myself but there’s just no way to run a phone without software made by jerks. And that’s one example.

You can use whatever criteria you want yo pick software, that’s fair. I don’t tend to include politics and personality into the equation myself but I’m not imposing anyone to do the same.