Technically it kind of already is. My username is the one I’ve used with little variation for 13 years, including my youtube and my website where I show my face. Everyone I know IRL knows my username, some of my friends even call me Spatchy and it would feel weird if that particular group didn’t (to the point I occasionally have to remind them it’s not my real name).

I’m still weirdly obsessed with not sharing my data with companies even though more of it is public than is probably sensible.

I use Thunderbird on both desktop (Linux) and mobile (Android). I currently have five accounts in a unified inbox:

• Gmail (2 accounts): ‘professional’ one I give to people and the other one for generic account signups - currently migrating away from both of these.

• Mailbox.org: the replacement for both my gmail accounts as mailbox.org allows aliases. They are completely EU based and don’t sell your data. Costs a small fee of €15 a year.

• Zoho: for my own domain which is public and attached to my various projects as a developer contact address

• Microsoft 365 🤢: Had to add this one literally today because I’m going back to uni in September. Hate that they use microsoft, but thankfully the uni enabled IMAP/SMTP instead of only allowing Microsoft’s proprietary OWA protocol.

As for general usage, I treat my inbox like a to-do list. Once I’ve completed all tasks relating to an email, it gets deleted if it’s not important or archived (usually if it’s anything to do with money like a receipt or invoice). I usually only have at most 3-4 emails in my inbox at once.

The only thing that annoys me about Thunderbird is that occasionally if I delete a message, it will leave a blank ‘ghost’ message where the old one used to be that has a date of 01/01/1970 which only goes away when the program is restarted.

Most people wish that game could be erased from the timeline IRL too

Japan also has 2 incompatible power grids, with the north running on 50Hz and the south running on 60Hz

The server should still support mods fine. You’ll need to find a launcher that supports your OS, your mods and drasl-based authentication.

Texture packs will be fine, you can change them in game

Something that may influence your decision: Minecraft by default requires a Microsoft account.

Look into Drasl if you want to set up a Minecraft server without needing one

Does this mean they’ll finally be adding calls to the web version?

Yes, because if you can figure out which part of the procedure broke down leading to that switch being flipped, you can figure out ways to prevent that from happening again. That’s much harder to do with just audio.

I’m curious where the security theater accusation comes from

Closed source ad-block that allows “unobtrusive” ads by default. They also ran a scheme a few years ago that replaced ads on web pages with their own and paid users tiny amounts of cryptocurrency for viewing them.

All this is marketed by them as browsing securely

Opera, like Edge and Brave is just Chrome in a trenchcoat

You might like this (if you’re not already familiar with this masterpiece) https://youtu.be/_-BjC1GHwPY

Either that or Danish. They love that stuff over there for some reason

Remember Microsoft Tay? Remember how it got turned off in minutes for saying stuff like this? This is the timeline we live in.