https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

We can’t spy on our citizens, we’ll just ask our buddies to do it for us.

Gentoo USE flags are addictive.

No imagination.

RSS+yt-dlp=bliss

So most muricans.

Dropping the mask.

Not all schools but armed cops in schools as part of their “security” is and was a thing, at least as far back as the early 90s while I was in highschool in CA.

A server in .au is still part of the 5 eyes, so…

It’s reasonable to assume the contents are being trawled in Utah, but most likely will only be looked at after trigger-words scare the AI in charge.

Good for you, i had one of those.
Now go check the storage prices now and please define what “premium” is, 'cos last i checked they’re being overhyped - not as much as RAM, but on a similar trend.

They have decades of experience in South America.

For number 2, require that the people doing the open source work live and pay taxes in the EU.

I get what you’re saying but for larger projects that may not be viable.
Heck Mr Torvalds is an American living in the US (not that he’d need financial support) and not all muricans are dumbasses, just the majority.

Valve has moved mountains to push gaming to the point where it’s enjoyable in linux (except for kernel-level anticheat).
Canonical has been a driving force in dispelling the urban myth that linux is command-line only.
Other areas might not be so easy: AutoCAD is still king and GIMP never gained traction over Photoshop (Blender, on the other hand, won awards).
Microslop keeps shooting itself in the foot requiring TPM-only devices to run Windows 11.

TL;DR: YMMV, but it’s looking good.

Using channel URLs as RSS feeds + yt-dlp means i don’t even visit the site (when i do uBlock Origin does wonders on Firefox).

Oh no!
Anyway…

Isn’t Ogg a container format?
TIL that Opus replaces both Speex and Vorbis (the latter of which i was about to question on).

Thing is, storage isn’t at a premium anymore,

U sure about that?

they still preferred WAW as their intermediary format.

Probably because of habit?

I think FLAC is considered lossless so the comparison should be with WAV; whereas for lossy you have MP3/Vorbis.

MP3 patents expired a while ago i think, but for the longest time i’ve used Vorbis because of that.

Voo-doo hoo-doo what-you-don’t-dare-doo…