It seems that every popular Social Media platform became an extension of the liberal governments. I trust a proper sentiment analysis would reveal this.
Bitcoin, or any Crypto, Block Chain, are too complex, unfortunately, to understand, and therefore is a huge barrier to their adoption.
Whoever comes to an easy way of doing the digital currency first will win big.
One other turn off remains: is to solve the material part, how to turn crypto back into Fiat Money so it really seamlessly works and not entangled into revenue control traps, losses on exchange between networks, daily limits, and so many more.
This how is a micro Communism starts. So far within one strong monopoly.
Two things need to happen right away: new electronic hands off data protection legislation and Apple's monopoly dismantled. Not to forget the right for repairs by ordinary users.
I am a happy user since early beta of MedleyText https://medleytext.net
Please be aware that this note taking solution is potentially geared to cater to the software user community or alike mostly.
I am quite offended by how the news provider phys.org reacts to me using an ad blocker:
"It appears that you are currently using Ad Blocking software. What are the consequences? Click here to learn more."
-> Will never ever click
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Better support for peripherals
- DESCRIPTION: Drivers suck
If you buy a wrong printer brand or model you may end up returning it. Simply because it happened not to be supported by the manufacturer and/or Ubuntu
Overall, the desktop needs more radical refreshes, bash replaced with OhMyZh, no more Unity and a batter package manager, too.
But DDG still goes to Google (as well as the other providers).
And I see it returns less relevant results compared to Google itself.
Where it might be shining is in avoiding the search per unit of time throttling done by Google, and less content tailored by user IP which I see an intrusion into ones privacy.
Open source. Quick from launch to every keystroke, and batteries included.