Just in my personal experience Discord works a lot better and is far more convenient
Your personal experience is biased as fuck because having to go through phone verification or downloading a sketchy proprietary client is in no way far more convenient than firing up irc
Welcome to 2024, the year the two party system wins the elections again, peasants keep getting exploited and the rich becomes richer
Mission accomplished
Not so much ago i was handled an iphone and i had no idea how to unlock it and use it as there aren't any keys or instructions on the device. Joe Everyman is just used to it but in fact iphones are not easy to use. I think this really thread can also hint something, some OSS may not be easy to use or well supported but it is designed to be open and accessible. Proprietary software and standards puts you through a set of restrictions for example having to register and give away all your personal informations to download binaries.
Whatever you are getting your hands into remember that there's plenty of free alternatives and libre products available in the public domain. Supporting these is a good way to unsupport the closed counterpart.
You are getting none of these chips for free. They are giving public money to a corporation listed on the stock market.
So why are they forcing at gunpoint Palestinians not to go after the terrorists who so far after October 7th killed 3k childrens?
The us government and whoever is in charge for it support both genocide and Hamas as they are using it as a warrant for israel to expand their borders. Do you really believe they are unaware of the fact that indiscriminate bombing of gaza will bread even more terrorist? They are bombing thousand of childrens, they don't care about their own either, politicians and billionares do not fight their wars and neither care about anyone below them.
You can deduct two things from this:
-Russia is not as big of a threat as propaganda depicts it
-Spending trillions in "defense" is useless
Is this actually happening or did they manage to extend the copyright again?
If you want to bring people together create a program to do such thing. Forcing them into a shooting at people and dropping bombs course is the worst thing you could possibly come up with.
This is getting out of hands, economy and society are crumbling and everyone can see it with their own eyes. At this point is in the interest of any political party to stop billionares amassing wealth.