Subsidies are another way to say State planning, which is how you direct the “free market”. No capitalist, which includes China, will “innovate” without being baited with money.

There are massive subsidies in the US as well, but these go into the pockets of the CEOs and political/financial class. If this were to happen in China they’d go missing like Jack Ma of Alibaba until he got his head right.

That’s the linux tax again…w a free OS no less 🤦‍♂️

An independent audit would go a long way as well…looks interesting.

Sayboard on fdroid is an option as well https://f-droid.org/packages/com.elishaazaria.sayboard/

As I understand your neighbour wants to remove fluoride, can he get an under tap filter that only removes those types of chemicals? If not, why not simply buy mineral/spring water. Where I live it’s the same price.

Because Americans are obsessed with iphones, as a status symbol and “American” product and it’s a default…no effort required.

Rescuezilla is nice. I believe it just puts a more user friendly GUI on clonezilla

Kdenlive is likely your best bet. Even if u have issues here and there, in the long term you’ll be happy you stuck with it. It has very active development and is shaping up to be the most used foss video editor.

Bad example on my part;)

Bucky was right once again with his theory of “Ephemeralization” https://dbpedia.org/page/Ephemeralization … The only reason we’re concerned with these companies employing Devs and spending Billions to do what small teams of FOSS are able to achieve is simply a bad economic system that requires “make work” or Bullshit jobs for wages to feed the parasite class, instead of us living like the Jetson’s. Time to move one!

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and obviously Files the most

Sounds great, the more options users have the better, I say!

I second that, loving Alexandrite.app :)

Owncast, the foss twitch alternative, is an incredible project and they’ve been looking for design help for quite some time… https://owncast.online/

If you are looking to leave the matrix protocol, I suggest xmpp…it fulfills everything on your list.

Start here: https://joinjabber.org/

Hmm, this doesn’t seem like it would store energy for long though right? Once the energy starts flowing in, the wheel magnifies that force I assume, but needs almost constant input right? It’s just meant to deal w hiccups in power outages?

Sadly, it says almost nothing about how these actually work, and the video shows them taking the unit off the truck and onto a concrete pad … that’s it.