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FWIW they at least have their own indexer instead of relying on bing/yandex (looking at you ddg). Although I guess selling content you've crawled as your own is still a pretty shady thing to do.
task.org seems to be an oldschool under-construction page, do you mean tasks.org? Also is there a reason you specifically recommend OpenOffice instead of LibreOffice or Collabora Office?
From a psychological view, the best we can do is provide the information and hope that they come to the right conclusion themselves. You're almost never going to convince a person by telling them that they're wrong, and surely not by talking how their children are going to suffer and their house is going to get flooded.
I mean the 2 year drum up to elections so that even my nan who doesn't speak a word of English knows all of the candidates. US is also on the front of the culture wars as well as popular entertainment, so there's a lot of that as well. Anyway, I'm sharing my personal experience and don't feel like there's a need to argue about that, if your local TV presents you a balanced world view great for you.
I spent some time on reddit recently and it felt even more like I was talking to children most of the time. Constant arguing which quickly turns into insults makes it impossible to have any productive conversation. Maybe it has always been that way and using lemmy provided a direct comparison, but I'm not sure that I want to be on there any more.
"Configure port forwarding" covers pretty much all of the steps. I don't think that it would be any less secure than quickconnect through a relay, but if security is a priority, then look into setting up a VPN to your network instead.
Currently I can connect my phone to a set of speakers at a small local café, several of my expensive over ear headphones, aux input of my friend's car, and a 70 cent lapel mic. Can I carry a dongle with me everywhere? Probably. Will I remember to do it? Probably not.
Commercial use as in hosting it for somebody else, self-hosting it for your org is still ok
I don't know the details, but, even though I appreciate the tech behind it, in my experience signal hasn't been that great (not even accounting for the need to ask people to install it). The calls always have a delay, the UI isn't as responsive as either Telegram or WhatsApp, no ability to edit sent messages, no history when logging in from a computer. Any of these aren't that big of a deal, but definitely a downgrade compared to the competition.
For anyone wanting to learn more there's a bigclive video covering the extraction process.