Wireguard protocol works with my home internet provider, doesn't work on LTE. Shadowsocks just works everywhere.

They do have black boxes but there are protocols they can't handle yet. It's just usual sword vs shield arms race.

I live in Russia and with all this "VPN is restricted" fuss I've yet to meet someone without VPN on their phone. Most people use free VPN services, some are paying for it, me and my friends use VPN we set up on VPS.

They need a new enemy every now and then. If the current enemy happens to be exterminated, they'll need one sooner, but they'll need a new one anyways.

Thankfully I don't have people I need on WhatsApp, but it took some convincing.

Nowadays I only have dentist and barbershop on WhatsApp, all my folks are on Telegram, including all work communications.

WhatsApp was always lacking features; WhatsApp web can't replace a full featured desktop client which is a must have for me; and its mobile client is inconvenient in every possible way.

I was using Gentoo for some years, and I have to say I do not regret switching to Arch.

That said, power to those chosen or damned to wield Gentoo in the eternal war of kernels. They are the fabric of reality, interstellar light and darkness, they are the reason we, common folks, can live peacefully with precompiled packages, not knowing the pains of building everything from sources.

This episode made me watch all of Black Mirror, and let me tell you it didn't stand up to this one. Watch White Christmas episode and you're good. Maybe add San Junipero, this one is really good too and it's more optimistic.

Yeah, but I'm using Sync exactly because I'm using Linux lol. Much more convenient and polished, and there's no such thing as intuitive UI, there's only UI you got used to.

Good privacy brings inconvenience, don't even think this compromise could ever be avoided. Convenient WhatsApp has nothing to do with privacy, whatever their PR department might want you to think.

This compromise is unavoidable, and every user should be forced to make the choice. Every kind of defaults is bad. Can you imagine that a messenger app that forces you to choose your place on the scale of security-convenience during onboarding process gets wide adoption? Me neither...

Telegram defaults are very sane for common users, and they have very easy and convinient way to start a secure chat. Best available messenger app so far.

The only place free will source from is quantum randomness.

Also, better believe in free will. If you are wrong, it wasn't really your choice, and if you are right you can do more.

The whining made me kinda angry and made me realize average reddit gamer is a pathetic excuse for human being. Devs, writers, designers and all the rest had done exceptional job, marketing people fucked them and then this class action suit appeared.

Since then I don't care for what circlejerking gamers on the internet say. It's their parents' problem, not mine.

It was very much playable and enjoyable on PC at release, the whole whining was mostly from console players and gullible folks from PC camp.

If you are on PC, just play it. You might want to wait for the Phantom Liberty to come out (September, IIRC); they are changing some core game mechanics there. I'm definitely going to play it then.

Currently I'm on my 3rd playthrough, on my 2nd one (last summer) it was a somewhat buggy patch, current state of the game feels amazing.

I would agree with you if threads didn't choose to avoid market with decent consumer protection laws, EU.

They aren't launching at EU for a reason, and that's good enough for me to take a stance against them.