Crazy how well *nix did back in '05, now that there are so many quality of life improvements, the near takeover of the web platform for most apps, M365 existing, Wine compatibility improvements, and the ease of management for virtuals & rdp/vnc when something must be on Windows, most of their concerns have hopefully been eliminated.
It'd be interesting to see if there have been recent followups.
Mobile non-Android Linux on more than developer devices and 5 year old tech would be the largest impact, especially if you could pull off half of what the Liberux Nexx was promising. An all in one convergent pro-privacy device with flagship hardware would be a game changer. Possibly more urgent now that Google is pushing Android to be more locked down.
Desktops are primarily used by hobbyists (mostly gaming), creators, and businesses. To get Linux more there you need OEM installs and more driver support, Adobe and other big holdouts finally porting their stuff, and alternatives to AD respectively.
Yes, but there are some Excel formulas that LibreOffice can't do and while there is now some VBA compatibility its not 100%
Lazy question as I haven't followed the DSA closely and Wikipedia seems very surface level - does it do stupid privacy invasive crap and forget small sites exist like the UK's Online Safety Act?
https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive might be enough for your OneDrive needs, so you can get by only booting your VM when you truly need Desktop Excel.
Love this game, but beware its just as addictive as other Civ Games.
"Just one more turn" is a real phenomenon.
https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/github_to_codeberg has some instructions on how to do a bulk migration using LionyxML's script. https://codeberg.org/LionyxML/migrate-github-to-codeberg
The underlying software forge Codeberg uses, Forgejo, is self-hostable. I'm sure some web hosting business will get around to providing a managed hosting offering eventually.
Credit cards should roughly do the same, but both of those aren't "great" for privacy and really exists to make profiles of adults while pretending to negate the need for parents to parent (the only real way to reduce/prevent harms of kids witnessing age inappropriate media). Your ability to do financial transactions shouldn't be tied to your speech or content you view.
IANAL but many localities have provisions that guests become defacto tenants after certain timeframes. This CO lawyer's blog I found searching for your state's tenancy laws might be a good read. https://www.colorado-violent-assault-crimes-criminal-lawyer.com/colorado-criminal-law-rights-of-a-house-guest-vs-colorado-trespass-laws
That being said, yes it'd be great if an instance like peertube.wtf would exist with a mainstream friendly domain. My understanding is peertube.wtf is self funded by its owner (with some help from donations) but that's hard to find a patreon like that.
You have to remember that YouTube has 20 years of content and is ran by an advertising agency that also specializes in search algorithms, and they make money by having ads watched along videos that retain attention enough to motivate people to watch another one (usually meaning quality videos, though algo slop is also a consequence). PeerTube is a little over 6 years old, is almost entirely operated by volunteers and donations, and the whole fedi, including PeerTube, is only near .0001% of youtube's user base. While the community is improving at a rapid rate, near every topic outside of the fediverse itself simply is by YouTube standards still niche, especially if you only watch in English.
Searching curated instances like https://fedi.video/ is probably the best we have right now if you don't want to sift for gold yourself, outside of requesting more creators (preferably those you're patreoning) to join or at least allow reposting.