If you either buy a Fairphone from Murena (with /e/ OS) or from Iode (with Iode OS) or if you buy a standard one and install a version of Android without Google Play Services (like /e/ os or Iode), then you can still use FDroid.

But what it gave birth to was a form of anarchy. One doesn't go against the other, the same way a political regime can change within a country.

A fair amount of my teenage years was spent on uninstalling IE search bars (and other crap) from the computers of friends of my parents and ask jeeves was a massive pain to remove (had to remove dlls and registry entries manually as the uninstaller wasn't doing anything).

Because of that i wonder if most people outside of english speaking countries ignored there was a legit service behind this malware. I, for sure, never used it and always told people to not touch it based on how dodgy this search bar was.

So, because the time i wasted because of you and the number of computers you messed up by showing up uninvited, i say good ridance jeeves, i never liked you

Although, being patient was part of the experience as well

As consummer we are responsible for the whole world emissions in the end. Changing those habbits, can impact things far beyond borders. But that's a political choice which goes against a constant growth based economy and it seems that not many people in our countries are ready to accept this. We want to buy and travel as much as we always did but bear no reponsibilities for the impact it has.

Not saying that things are perfect in Europe but the US talking about freedom and freedom of speech sounds like a joke.

Moving matter out continusously at industrial scale with no plan to bring 100% of it back in the ecosystem other than burning it seems quite unsustainable and irresponsable.

The fact that US emissions are not going down shows that something is really really wrong there.

Europe claiming that its emissions are going down is deceptive as taking into account its share of emission in China would paint a different picture.

Libreoffice is used quite a bit in administrations across EU. I would expect more stickiness to microsoft caused by legacy applications that requires windows to run rather than office.

The current situation makes it impossible to create a business from modifying an existing product, you need to start from blank slates, making it hard to crack a walled-garden.