Everyone already anticipates new Google services to fail. Expecting people to spend hundreds of dollars on content that is locked to a service run by a company that is known for canceling services after a couple of years was always going to fail.

Stadia was essentially just a demo of Google’s cloud capabilities. Even if Stadia was a massive success, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to Google’s ad revenue and have no impact on stock price.

Ironically, if Google were upfront about how it would handle the shutdown, it likely would have increased consumer confidence enough that Stadia may not have needed to be shutdown.

GPT4ALL

FreeChat

Alpaca

Proton will still be a for-profit company that will be majority-controlled by a non-profit. The non-profit will not own all of the business either, so there will still be profits going to shareholders.

Which is the same structure that Proton is moving to.

If checking their email a couple of times per year is too high a requirement, I would not recommend the time and effort necessary to maintain a mail server. Even people who enjoy self-hosting often do not want to host a mail server.

Signal still requires a phone number to use it. What they recently added is the ability to message people without needing to know their phone number.

I use Radicale for my calendars, reminders, and contacts precisely because of how minimal it is. It has been very reliable for me and is very easy to back up and restore since it is just files.

Create a different alias for everything using a service like:

• SimpleLogin
• Addy (AnonAddy)
• Firefox Relay
• Apple Hide My Email

Yes. With MXroute, you pay for storage and can create as many accounts, emails, aliases, etc. as you want.

• free stuff
• subscription

Pick one

This is disappointing as someone who does not want everything centralized under one company. I have tried to diversify the services I use, but this is the second one that Proton has acquired.

SimpleLogin development has essentially been stalled since they were acquired by Proton as resources were used to develop Pass instead. I have a feeling that Standard Notes will be treated similarly.

Progressive Web App

Photopea is a great web-based photo editor, but it is not FOSS.

There is a setting to automatically check for updates. I would see if that is enabled.

Telegram still requires a phone number to sign up, but they have had usernames that can be used to contact people without needing their phone number. Signal is only now finally rolling out usernames.

Fedora will not get Plasma 6 until 40 releases next month in April.

Plus donations to Mozilla cannot even be used for Firefox development due to the structure of the foundation and corporation.

No, KDE does not have their own virtualization gui. Boxes can still be used on KDE as well though. If you really want nothing to do with Gnome, then virt-manager will be your best option.

If you are using Linux, it does not get any simpler than Gnome Boxes. If you need more options, virt-manager is still fairly easy to use.