GingerKun

I like it a lot! The mod list populated and successfully downloaded one mod for Link's Awakening and then they stopped polulating after that. It seemed like a second mod download hanged at 0% and nothing else would download after. Similarly, I installed yuzu once successfully and then I tried to update again and it still remained stuck.

I was able to get the yuzu updater to work again by uninstalling and reinstalling Toolbox with itch. However the LA mod list kept mostly failing to populate other than manually installed ones. I get the feeling that a large mod source wasn't working (probably gamebanana as that seems like the biggest selection for Link's Awakening).

That information is easily found with a web search, so there is no need to cast aspersions. It's funded by Brian Acton's "activist" funding (interest-free loans of $100 million+ total to Signal Foundation over the years). I'd guess Acton used it as a huge tax write-off the year he sold WhatsApp to Facebook.

Other revenue sources include voluntary user donations and grants from many free press organizations whose members rely on Signal. Some years they report positive net income, and other years they report negative.

Signal Foundation tax forms, which list all general revenue sources: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840

What Signal says about how they operate: https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/ https://signalfoundation.org/en/

Signal Privacy Policy: https://signal.org/legal/#privacy-policy

All the code, including what runs on their servers and in their apps, so you don't need to take their word for anything. You can compile the signal client from source if you like: https://github.com/signalapp

Article which talks about their audit history (this is their weakest point. The full results of the audits Signal paid for were never published): https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/signal/

However, anybody can check for any spooky stuff in their code, so I doubt they would purposely try to hide anything untoward there.

I haven't liked Brave search results in general lately. SearxNG is pretty good and Duckduckgo as well.

It kind of doesn't matter... That's the beauty of fully auditable open source end to end encryption.

Basically, it makes the whole platform less secure because you could accidentally send a non-encrypted message at any time. With SMS-free Signal, at least mistaken sent messages are still E2E encrypted.

Is their goal to become the new de-facto messaging app? Or is their goal to become the most secure messaging app for whistle blowers, etc for whom a single mistake could mean losing their life or their freedom?

That's a little reductive... Lemmy Admins are users as well. And any bug reports or feedback you provide is implemented to improve Lemmy, which we all benefit from.

It's much worse, actually. Twitter API has been dead for months by exorbitant costs, but TweetDeck is a first-party feature! Twitter is a joke.

Especially rate-limiting your users that love Twitter enough to pay for it. If I were paying for Twitter (I deactivated last year), that would be the last straw for me. Imagine paying for a service, for example Spotify, but you still only get to use it for 4 hours per day.

Until recently, Linux didn't differentiate between E Cores and P Cores on Intel CPUs. I think there are some efforts underway to implement a "linux hybrid scheduler," but it isn't fully optimized by any means. In reality, Linux still often has better battery life due to not being spyware, not updating without being asked, and some very clever battery saving CLI programs available.