Everyone already anticipates new Google services to fail. Expecting people to spend hundreds of dollars on content that is locked to a service run by a company that is known for canceling services after a couple of years was always going to fail.

Stadia was essentially just a demo of Google’s cloud capabilities. Even if Stadia was a massive success, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to Google’s ad revenue and have no impact on stock price.

Ironically, if Google were upfront about how it would handle the shutdown, it likely would have increased consumer confidence enough that Stadia may not have needed to be shutdown.

GPT4ALL

FreeChat

Alpaca

Mozilla Foundation owns Mozilla Corporation.

Mozilla Corporation, which is responsible for Firefox, is what also purchased Anonym.

Proton will still be a for-profit company that will be majority-controlled by a non-profit. The non-profit will not own all of the business either, so there will still be profits going to shareholders.

Which is the same structure that Proton is moving to.

In addition to Run Your Own Mail Server, all backers will get some of Michael’s previous books including:

• Networking for Systems Administrators
• Ed Mastery
• git commit murder (mystery novel)
• PAM Mastery
• Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter (optional)
• Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition

And SSH Mastery if the campaign reaches $65,535

Google does not let you unlock the boot loader if the device is carrier locked. It needs to get paid off and unlocked before the boot loader can be unlocked to install custom roms.

If checking their email a couple of times per year is too high a requirement, I would not recommend the time and effort necessary to maintain a mail server. Even people who enjoy self-hosting often do not want to host a mail server.

Signal still requires a phone number to use it. What they recently added is the ability to message people without needing to know their phone number.

• Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons
• Surveillance Report
• 2.5 Admins
• Self-Hosted
• Philosophize This
• Frequent Miler

I use Radicale for my calendars, reminders, and contacts precisely because of how minimal it is. It has been very reliable for me and is very easy to back up and restore since it is just files.

Create a different alias for everything using a service like:

• SimpleLogin
• Addy (AnonAddy)
• Firefox Relay
• Apple Hide My Email

Yes. With MXroute, you pay for storage and can create as many accounts, emails, aliases, etc. as you want.

If Google would have said upfront that all purchases would be refunded when Stadia shuts down, it likely would have increased confidence enough that people would actually use it.

iOS Reminders app synced with Radicale server.

• free stuff
• subscription

Pick one

This is disappointing as someone who does not want everything centralized under one company. I have tried to diversify the services I use, but this is the second one that Proton has acquired.

SimpleLogin development has essentially been stalled since they were acquired by Proton as resources were used to develop Pass instead. I have a feeling that Standard Notes will be treated similarly.

Apple does it locally on the device.

Progressive Web App