Your use of ‘anything’ and ‘everything’ is quite exaggerated.
The average user can do most of their general day to day tasks on Linux without touching the terminal.
Even on Windows, you need to use the command line/shell to complete certain task, so you can’t escape it fully.
Not self-hosted, however Proton supports custom domains and catch-all. Their monthly plans are very reasonable IMO.
Where was it mentioned by OP or yourself this is limited to a purely technical discussion? You’re in the Privacy community, if you read the sidebar it states it’s for discussion for digital privacy, including abuse of power, which is what I and others are discussing with this topic.
I disagree, especially from a privacy perspective. Just as an example, if the CEO of the company goes on a full power trip (Elon, for example with banning users/censoring content that doesn’t align with his views), whose to say they won’t include nefarious changes to their product or service that could jeopardise users they don’t agree with, or start handing over data of their users?,
I’ll need to find the article again, but if I’m not mistaken in my recollection, I recall reading about an app collecting and handling over data to anti-abortion organisation.
It’s just a conversation dude, you can make your point without the need for Reddit style aggression.
The views of those CEO can in some instances be important, those in charge shape the direction of the company and ultimately the product. Look at Twitter for example, once a place of relative free speech, but now controlled by a CEO who bans users he personally doesn’t like, demotes content that doesn’t fit his beliefs, and prevents linking to other services like Mastodon/Lemmy/Instagram.
I’m not claiming it would, but whose to say similar censorship wouldn’t happen with Brave? The CEO has already injected content into webpages and redirected links for monetisation purposes, what if more nefarious actions were taken for content he doesn’t agree with?
It’s not bad, just a little unnecessary. When communicating verbally it’s understandable, similar to using “errm”, giving the person time to think of the next thing to say or as a way to interject into a conversation but with text you don’t need that.
Haha, one for me is “DM” (direct message), I grew up around forums so for me it’s “PM”.
I may have a look at the code for some of the Lemmy clients to see if I can add a filter in for these types of comments to either hide the comment or automatically block the user (extreme)
A few that irk me (I think it’s the grammar Nazi inside me):
Starting comments with “I mean” or “ngl” - it’s completely unnecessary fluff
Mass typos - a typo/bad autocorrect here and there is expected, but when the title/comment is full of them I have to try real hard to understand what they’re trying to say… spend a few seconds to proof read what you’ve typed!
The same regurgitated wit (if you can call it that) - you can almost predict the top comments before going into a thread
Being unable to have a serious discussion on serious topics - going into a news/science/political thread is painful; they’re plagued with bitter, short tempered aggressive comments, and repeated misinformation they’ve heard from other Reddit armchair generals. Just do a little bit of research before stating a fact you’ve read from a stranger.
Not OP, and these aren’t scams as such, but there was some controversy with Brave inserting affiliate links within web pages and also hijacking links to redirect to other URLs that would earn them money.
The CEO also has some controversial views on the Corona virus and LGBTQ rights.
Just to add, if you wanted to start VPN on boot automatically, you can create a systemd service file to take care of that and put it in ~/.config/systemd/user/