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I‘ve recently stumbled upon Mindsweeper, which does a great job of removing all required guesswork and actually punishes you if you guess. I think it‘s a great improvement over the original.

I don’t think this is quite right. CoD titles do take a long time to develop. They‘re just rotating studios, so they can achieve a yearly release cadence (the last six entries in the series had five different studios working on them). Also, they are by no means getting cheaper. According to court documents development costs rose from $450 million to over $700 million from 2015 to 2020 alone.

Although the Telekom is a European alternative, I‘d urge everyone to look for other alternatives first. They‘re actively sabotaging net neutrality (Source 1 [German], Source 2 [German]) and their CEO, Tim Höttges, is a big fan of Elon Musk and DOGE [German].

If these are things you disagree with, I‘d strongly recommend not supporting them.

Was für ein dämliches Argument. Microsoft hat nix mit Wine zu tun. Software, die per Übersetzungsschicht unter Linux lauffähig gemacht wird, bringt Microsoft rein gar nix. Wenn ich spanisch lerne, werde ich dadurch nicht zum Spanier und wenn mein Rechner "lernt" Microsoft-Windows-Software zu "verstehen", ist er dadurch kein Microsoft-Produkt.

Wine erhöht nur die Anzahl an Menschen, die Linux nutzen können, weil die Software, die sie verwenden möchten, tatsächlich läuft.

Du betreibst einfach nur genau das elitäre Gatekeeping, welches das Wachstum von Open Source seit Jahren hemmt, weil alle Interessierten sofort die Lust verlieren, sobald es ihnen von irgendeinem FOSS-Extremisten zum Vorwurf gemacht wird, dass sie in ihrer Freizeit lieber Age of Empires als 0A.D. spielen.

Unfortunately, I think the most reliable way is to go for a paid search engine from a private company like Kagi, which allows you to blacklist sites and prioritizes quality over ad-friendliness.

As soon as a company goes public, they won‘t focus on trying to sell their product to their customers, but to their investors. And investors currently just love AI. So it goes everywhere, no matter if it’s useful or not. Private companies, on the other hand, have to make a product their customers actually want, otherwise their only source of income will dry up pretty quickly.

So, although there are some other band-aid-solutions out there, I think a more reliable way of getting rid of the slop, and also sending a message, is not to use products from slop-loving companies at all, if possible.

Germany actually does that! Quite a few government bodies are already active at https://social.bund.de/. Maybe there‘s hope that other countries will follow.

I‘d probably go with a VPS. It probably won‘t cost more than 10$/month, maybe even less, depending on how much heavy usage your Nextcloud instance requires. And you won‘t have to worry about keeping your hardware and network running, which pretty much always takes up more time than expected.

Some web hosters (I‘ve had very good experiences with Hetzner) charge an hourly rate and allow you to preconfigure VPSes with software like Nextcloud. So unless you have specific needs, you could just spin up an instance, check if it suits your needs and, if not, only pay a few cents.

That really depends on what you mean by privacy. They probably won‘t sell your data or even look at the stuff you‘re doing with your server, if you‘re not disrupting their service. But they definitely will cooperate with law enforcement if your server is used for illegal stuff and someone reports it.

In the end, you’ll always have to trust your server host to some degree. Some other hosts, like Hetzner, allow you to install your own operating systems on their dedicated servers, so you can set up full disk encryption. But even though this is definitely better than unencrypted disks, it‘s still not a reliable way of preventing access while your server is running.

So if you’re just wondering if you can host a Nextcloud instance at hostinger without your files being sold by them: Almost certainly, yes. If you, on the other hand, plan to host manuals for building bombs or, even worse, offer downloads of old Nintendo games, they‘re probably not going to respect your privacy for long.

There‘s a great episode of Map Men covering this map and a few other, similar ones.

That‘s what I call good timing.

I’m not an expert, so take my findings with a grain of salt, but the current scientific consensus seems to be:

We don’t know.

Recent studies suggest that the behavior of spiders is more complex than previously thought. They show behavior that can’t be explained by simple automatisms, such as the development of hunting strategies depending on their prey.

Keep in mind that these findings do not indicate any capability to love or to grow fond of someone. But there is an ongoing discussion about whether invertebrates should be considered sentient.

According to their FAQ, all fonts on Google Fonts are open source and their library is pretty extensive, searchable and usable without an account.

So, unless I’m missing something, it seems to be what you’re looking for.