Would prefer something that could be federated and distributed so the cost of hosting is distributed and doesn't allow for a single entity to set ridiculous prices once they get popular, like Etsy did.

Unfortunately, the far-right has been pushing this idea of traditional gender roles a lot lately, so people who follow the media in that space are constantly flooded with conspiracy theories and made up horror stories. It's just one of the current favored ways to keep them distracted and their anger aimed away from the real problem makers.

I also default to they/them. That has been the default for way longer than this "debate" (i.e. stream of hate) has been popular. I'd love to see the people who use "he or she" instead of "they" in normal speech about people whose gender they don't know. I don't know anyone outside of old formal papers from the pre-internet era that use that kind of language.

I'm agender by the way, so not only are pronouns sometimes hard to remember because they don't connect to the way I perceive a person, but i don't even perceive my own gender except when forced to, so take my comments with that in mind.

Anytime there is an update, files are often deleted during that process so they can be replaced with new files or because those files are no longer part of the new version being installed. If an error occurs during this process, it is possible that an application will appear not to be installed because it's broken.

Anyway, most software does at least partially "uninstall" when it is updating, so if the install fails, then it's always possible that an update will have uninstalled something. That's just updates regardless of operating systems, package managers, etc.

But the shithead exec is supportive of fascists which means privacy is secondary to the desires of the current regime. That's just a standard part of fascism. And if the current regime is allowing untested backdoor code to be inserted in the Treasury department and NASA and the CDC and most major social media to strip out protections for people they don't like, climate change, etc. Just imagine what someone who actually supports them ideologically would be willing to do.

I mean, that's what late-stage capitalism is all about. It has been predicted in a million writings. Any competition won't survive for long though. Eventually, it will either get gobbled up and merged into the monopoly/duopoly or it will get "regulated" out of existence by those forces hands in the government.

$20 to unlock the API killed it for me. If it has a built in way yo lock it down, it's not an open platform and is a great way for bugs to brick a device.

I've been using Heliboard for a while. It does most that gboard does, but the predictions aren't as good of course.

Also Google on 2008: "By saying “common”, we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage."

Yeah, they now no longer censor things like saying that LGBTQ+ people are mentally ill or that women are "household objects" or that all immigrants are criminals (regardless of immigration status). So, yes they stopped censoring hate-speech that far right people don't consider hate speech because they consider those things as accepted facts.

This issue is more likely about the perception that anyone with an interest in technology is a cyber criminal. Same reason that the Bush administration's NSA flagged subscribers to the Liinux forums. Knowledge is power and they believe anyone who wants knowledge is a threat to their power. They'd prefer to go back to the dark ages and die of dysentery than accept women as equal, gay people as human, or brown people as neighbors (which is even more ironic when coming from other brown people).

Problem is this means that things we were hoping to get like having hormone replacement therapy actually approved by the FDA for use for transgender care will not happen and any enforcement of anti-discrimination or laws against hate speech at the federal level will no longer apply to trans and non-binary people. This will allow, for example, insurance companies to not have to cover transgender care. There is already a huge waiting list for people who are seeking care in the US due to the lack of specialists (myself included), so that list is likely to get longer. And likely any doctors who might have been planning to take up transgender care specialties may have their programs lose their funding. It's a huge impact to a lot of areas of government and many industries to have the federal government not recognize transgender care as valid and not recognize non-binary people like me as people at all.

Also, I'm fortunate enough to live in a state that is friendly to transgender and non-binary people, but my employer is not based here, so the insurance I have doesn't have to obey local laws that don't allow for blanket policies banning coverage of transgender care. So, the federal laws do matter.

There's some concern now that Startpage is majority owned by an ad company. The company says they want the ad revenue rather than the user data, but it's hard to trust that. I used to use it but moved to Searxng.