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That was largely gut-level analysis for my personal decision-making but here are a few of the things I considered:

1. Value proposition in the context of acquisition, featuring a heavily-marketed privacy brand and a base of privacy-conscious users (harder to profile, more expensive data)
2. Obfuscation of funding sources via ‘venture philanthropy’ non-profit (a la OpenAI) housing closed-doors for-profit operations
3. Rapid expansion to full-coverage consumer productivity cloud platform alternatives (vpn, mail, drive, calendar, wallet, passwords, etc)
4. Weird pattern of being blocked then let through without future contest by numerous data-hungry entities including thiel, and generally just allowed in a few too many privacy-unfriendly places for my taste
5. And the usual reservations re: privatized privacy and commercial OSS

Again sorry that’s all hand-wavy. Probably shouldn’t have thrown shade without something more concrete.

Common opinion among millennial graduates with ed debt whose careers were thwarted by various recessions.

The more nuanced version is that not everyone’s long term goals will be greatly furthered by higher education. It does have value on its own, and to some extent broadens the outer limits of the perspectives you might achieve in life, but it doesn’t technically teach you anything you can’t teach yourself with a library card. The argument for going into trades instead is a strong one, especially from a financial angle, but also job stability, work-life balance, mental health, etc.

All the same, not-for-profit higher ed generally offers far too much good for an individual to discount outright as a scam. For many, it’s life changing, the time curtains are thrown open on their world, or a light shone on their place in it, etc.

It just shouldn’t be considered the only viable path as perhaps it once was.

Depends heavily on application (access required, sensitivity of data handled, etc) and nature of disagreement as it pertains to trustworthiness.

Example A: I use Lemmy even though I disagree politically with the original devs because the design appears sound and it doesn’t require access to sensitive data.

Example B: I won’t use anything from the Proton Foundation because the founders’ personal comportment and political leanings have led me to suspect that they intend to sell user data.

I imagine registering D comes with additional risk in that state especially.

I love how loudly media-centric those keyboards were, even the silver domed buttons center top the size a hood ornament lol, that 00s media PC era definitely had a vibe.

I suppose that stands to reason. If you overlap all known spectra of neurodivergence, the reference ranges of each wouldn’t be expected to align perfectly over a population. A narrow slice near the center of the bell curve might be 100% NT for all known spectra, but that cohort could be vanishingly small. So “NT” is really only useful in a context of specified criteria/spectra, because few if any individuals are typical for all of them.

It looks a lot like the eMachine cases you’d find all over cyber cafes and business centers in Europe in that era.

Edit: sample

Having what she’s having, I imagine

The water level from the original mario bros?

They were still popular throughout the 90s and 2000s among many other themes including political scandal caricatures, football hockey and NFL players, etc. But the matryoshka jokes about old Soviet leaders could be found at any roadside bazaar. We theorized that a small group of elite painter babushkas must make all of them.