Not federated, but definitely anonymous. All Signal messages are E2EE, and Signal can't even access your messages. They literally have a page where they list every time they've been asked by the government to give info, and they can't. https://signal.org/bigbrother/

Is that supposed to be sarcasm?

I'm guessing they want Chimera Linux to be developed by volunteers rather than employees? They would still need at least a little funding for their website and download links though.

Right in the Signal box, it says "Or Matrix/XMPP". It's super tiny for some reason.

We finally got our music server set up after a lot of finagling with wireguard. It's really cool; we have slsk-dl set up to batch download our playlists from Soulseek, which we can then play in Jellyfin. Next I'm gonna set up Nextcloud for backing up photos, projects, the whole shebang.

The Curse (Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast) Borderline Forever is very much neck and neck but I found The Curse to be hilarious

Edit: Also Chibi Robo: Ziplash was awesome

I'm just throwing random stuff out but are you passing your GPU to the VM? It could be that when you switch to Material Preview there's no GPU to process it fast enough and it crashes.

I would be interested in knowing why. Isn't the sandboxing supposed to make security better?

Also, I recommend using Chris Titus Tech's winutil program to disable Telemetry and install some programs (you can even uninstall Edge and the Store, but not recommended)

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

Wowie it's been forever since we've had this much snow. Stay safe and enjoy a nice cup of hot chocolate! (or whatever you do on snowy days)

Lol I love how New Hampshire is just left out. Now how am I gonna get my New Hampshire clam chowder?

I also replace Firefox with LibreWolf and Brave! I don't do much more than that though; I used to replace GNOME Software with Warehouse, but I eventually found it easier to just remove PackageKit and use Software to install my flatpaks (I still use Warehouse for changing flatpak settings).

Check out c/[email protected], they have some software recommendations for degoogling.

Since you have a Pixel you should be able to install GrapheneOS, which removes a lot of Google services and is a lot more secure.

I would also recommend FreeTube, which is ad-free and has the feature to download videos like YT premium. You can even import your subscriptions.

Welcome to the rabbit hole of degoogling.

Alternative voting methods allow for smaller parties, ones who's values may align more with the general population, an actual fighting chance. You gotta admit at some point that having only two realistic choices is a bit of a problem, right?