This does not apply to the server. Only the client app is open source. The server is proprietary.

I am not sure that northwest corner of Utah was worth giving up all that other territory. /s

They switched to USB-C last year with the iPhone 15.

Bitwarden is a means of saving some money and also not putting all your eggs in one basket, so it kind of is an answer to your question.

As others have said, no matter what you use, make sure you have regular backups.

Whoever had the number before you likely gave it out to any service that asked.

Since you only use it for data, I recommend contacting your provider and asking for a different number.

Miracast and Chromecast are different. Miracast is the open standard while Chromecast is Google’s proprietary casting protocol.

Roku supports both Miracast and AirPlay, but I don’t think it supports Chromecast.

Despite not being easy to find, most news sites still have RSS feeds. They are great for just getting the news from sources I trust instead of big tech algorithm recommend blogspam. It is also possible to get RSS feeds from subreddits and Mastodon.

It is fun to play with, but it is not suitable to use as a primary phone. It has poor battery life and is very slow.

KeePass password vault

Google has done price increases the last 2 or 3 years, so they no longer have a price advantage. Samsung also has the same 7 year support window.

Proton is still a for-profit company and has shareholders who expect to to make money. The change is that the largest shareholder of the for-profit company is now a separate non-profit organization. It is still a positive move, but not entirely what the marketing makes it seem.

I can understand Nuke, but what do you have against The?

I see it listed further down under the Forums section.

openSUSE also remains one of the only distributions that have automatic Btrfs snapshots setup out of the box. I am very surprised other distributions have not done the same. Especially Fedora, since they use Btrfs already.

Google has been using a bad modem ever since the Pixel 6, resulting in poor cellular connectivity. Although given how strong the connection looks, this is likely at least partially due to congestion on T-Mobile’s network as well.

I use Pocket because it is compatible with my Kobo ereader.

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.