Molly uses Signals servers, meaning you can chat with people that use Signal. As far as I know Signal does allow for third party clients, so as long as their stance doesn’t change Molly should work. Differences between the versions can be found here

Alternatively there is !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world

They are so full of shit. The arguments by companies against regulation are always the same, you have to consider that companies used the same arguments to not treat employees with what we would today consider basic human rights.

Linux Mint but it looks good

If you(they) don’t mind having outdated software Debian stable might be worth looking into. Otherwise there are immutable distros which are very hard to fuck up, and even if you do there is the option to rollback to the previous version. I’d recommend Aurora or Fedora (fedora doesn’t include some proprietary stuff like some codecs so if you need that it’s probably better to use Aurora).

Linux Mint also has a version based on Debian stable, LMDE, which is could also be an option. It’s not as stable as Debian as it adds its own stuff but has the out of the box experience.

As general advice I’d suggest using less packages and more flatpaks as a faulty flatpak update can only break that flatpak, not your system. For packages be sure to disable online updates, meaning you have to reboot to apply them. This isn’t as convenient but if stability is that important to you I’d go for it

You can replace the default windows UI with an alternative shell like Open Shell (here’s a list). Not sure how reliable this works.

Because usually companies get founded. If you want to found a company you want investors. Investors don’t really invest in worker coops. That (and a few other reasons) mean most companies are formed as private companies. Worker coops mostly form when workers are sick of how they are treated and think they can do better on their own.

A willing government could subsidize worker coops and encourage their creation to make them more common

There are countries that were made democratic not by the people but their dictator/monarch. Why couldn’t the same happen with socialism?

Also one should consider that (at least in the non Stalinist definition) socialism more or less just means worker coops. There are worker coops. There is the theoretical possibility that their numbers rise until private companies are basically non existent. Socialism doesn’t necessarily require a revolution.

most of us wouldn’t want to have sex with tentacles and cat ears

As far as I’m aware Photopea is supposed to fill the same niche as GIMP or Photoshop, though I’m no expert in the field.

Have you tried Photopea? It’s browser based but very good

From their FAQ

With WinApps you do the bulk of the setup manually, and there’s no cohesive interface to bring it all together. There’s a basic TUI, a taskbar widget, and some CLI commands for you to play with.

WinBoat does all the setup once you have the pre-requisites installed, displays everything worth seeing in a neat interface for you, and acts like a complete experience. No need to mess with configuration files, no need to memorize a dozen CLI commands, it just works.

We have Wine / Proton of course and they can run a lot, but not everything is possible. WinBoat is different. Instead of running compatibility layers, it runs a real copy of Windows using Docker and KVM under the hood. The developer explains it should run basically everything unless “it requires strong GPU acceleration or kernel-level anticheat”. It uses FreeRDP for showing the apps on your Linux desktop, enabling you to interact with them like you would with any other Linux app.

I don’t want to sound rude, but maybe read the article and not just the headline before asking questions

From their FAQ

With WinApps you do the bulk of the setup manually, and there’s no cohesive interface to bring it all together. There’s a basic TUI, a taskbar widget, and some CLI commands for you to play with.

WinBoat does all the setup once you have the pre-requisites installed, displays everything worth seeing in a neat interface for you, and acts like a complete experience. No need to mess with configuration files, no need to memorize a dozen CLI commands, it just works.

I recently switched to Blorp. It’s still somewhat early in development, but overall is really nice.

Btw the Blorp issue should be resolved (check if your running 1.9.16)

If you want DNS filters you can use Mullvad DNS which is free, privat, doesn’t require a app and can be used together with uBlock lite

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Well, video streaming was AFAIK pioneered by porn sites, though not necessarily pornhub, but it could be seen as a representative

The only Desktop one that comes to mind is Interstellar, but you could probably also use a web fronted that is instance independent like phtn.app (Which I would recommend if it works)