That aspect is above my knowledge, I would be searching the same things you would be.

I would recommend making the switch in that case, qbittorrent is open source which both allows you to verify that the program is working securely, & probably accounts for the reason why the advanced features aren't available for bittorrent

Why bittorent over qbittorrent?

For a good stretch they were at three 9s 89.99%

I always laugh when I hear about meta's end to end encryption because it isn't remotely true in the sense that people would care about from a privacy standpoint. I know it is the case for messenger, I have not confirmed for other meta services, but in messenger the messages are encrypted in the way you would expect with the one big caveat being that meta stores your private keys on their servers. Iiirc meta explained that it is still e2e because they don't unencrypt it which I find hilarious.

Discounting some minor comparability issues, the process just requires a computer, an internet connection, a cable, and the ability to read through a couple paragraphs of instruction.

If you're looking for alternatives and you don't care about automatic device syncing, I have been enjoying using keepassxc

I feel like I'm going insane, I thought the EU just recently passed an initiative to directly ban age verification, and then I open my feed yesterday and there is nothing else other than news about this app & I can't find the initiative I thought I saw.

Edit: I figured out what was confusing me, the MEP just recently enshrined E2EE, which I remembered as a big win on the same level of no age verification.

There are two massive hoops as far as I am concerned, no local account & ms office forcing the use of one drive. I know these arent that big of an issue for most people, but I will never do either of those things.

The thing that's insane to me is that most of the alternatives have screen sharing with working audio on the back burner, while I can tell you that the first one to get it working will be my go to. Hopefully with this extra cushion, one of them can get it working it's the only thing discord has over its competitors other than general stability related things.

Imo $500-700 is squarely midrange when it comes to laptops, the low end is populated with the e-waste that is shitty $200-300 HP laptops

FOSS devs especially, you do this for the good of everyone for little benefit to yourselves.

I guarantee that most contributors who aren't being paid are doing their commits out of spite, but I can definitely applaud them for being as vindictive as they are.

Be careful with relying on it though since it has more holes than swiss cheese due in part to lazy devs who request unesecary permissions & the sandbox being slightly flawed from a security perspective.

It is actually surprisingly stable nowadays, the core system has become very meticulously maintained which means 9/10 times if you encounter an issue it won't brick the system and you only lose access to some package or program until it is fixed

If that is what was meant, this is nothing new, server hosts have had this information and more for ages, and your gamertag is by no means priveledged information. I am having trouble trying to figure out how this change affects my willingness to play on cross play servers, as others have pointed out however I would be wary of compromised devices with privelidged data like banks or HR which I realistically have no way to protect myself from.

Ostensibly knots per hour would be acceleration, which makes little sense in context

The general idea is that the production of the electronics is far more destructive than making an ICE drive system. I am not well read on recent changes, but there was a point where that statement was true, but even then the electronics weren't worse from greenhouse gas standpoint, just from other toxins.

I respect both gog and steam, but for very different reasons.

Gog is built on no DRM and providing unadulterated access to games which is great since it means that they have very little avenues to screw you if they turn into a bad actor.

On the other hand I don't care too much for the storefront that steam provides since it gives them far more ways to screw you, what actually has my respect is their integration with their server infrastructure, I admire that game developers basically just have to have their game on steam to take advantage of it, which even with the likes of epic and amazon has not been done well.

Overall though both of them are great from the very superficial standpoint of they are some of the last remaining tech companies that still put their customers first which is incredibly rare nowadays.