it means exactly this, the server hasn’t any knowledge about your uploaded files or encrytion key. It’s very save, but not really P2P, because of an server in the middle where the files are stored until download. Real P2P is eg, Croc, which transfer files direct from one PC to the other, without any server in the middle, you send an link which pointed direct to the files in your PC. The advantage is that you have anytime full control over the files and with this no limits on filesizes, but maybe a drawback is, that downloads are only possible, when your PC is online, on the other hand, this permits also to interrupt downloads, simply going offline, (it’s FOSS)

From Switzerland, Sharrr, OpenSource, encrypted EE2E, no knowledge, 10GB/file, one time download. From the same author, https://scrt.link/, for share autodestructive encrypted notes.

Also nice GeoGebra, OpenSource from Austria (EU), online, Android, iPhone

Not FOSS but great, OmniCalculator from Poland (EU), online, free, a collection of 3718 calculators for every task.

No, worse is not the amount, but where they are sent these telemetrias. A browser with a lot of features may have also a lot of tech telemetries related to these features to ensure a smooth operation. This is not the same as sending browserdata to third parties, like Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. which has nothing to do with the browserfeatures but with logging and selling userdata. Even worse if you use above an search engine which logs your activity, like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

Important only which requests go out and to where. If tech data go to the company of the browser, it’s OK, but not if user data goes to Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Towerdata, etc., which has nothing to do with the functionality of the browser. Permissions can be restricted in the settings of the OS.

https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

Not so important how much telemetries, but where these go. A complex feature rich browser can have a lot of tech telemetries, but this is only bad if these go to sites not related to the functionality and third parties, eg. to Facebook, Amazon and others.

Yes, but more usefull apps which reveal the real URL of QR and short links. These avoid a lot of bad surprises. I don’t like the “I’m feeling lucky” in links, less in current times.

Another crap like Hola VPN, it’s free, because it don’t use public servers, but the bandwith of its users, simply exchanging their IP. A terrible risky system. DON’T USE IT.

https://coolsymbol.com/

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Element is a good alternative, OpenSource and federated

Malicious startups can’t survive in the catalogue of the EU comission. In it there are certainly also commercial solutions, but mostly FOSS, OSS and FLOSS. The reason is to recover the sovereign from the US hegemony of the big companies in the web. Respect EU OS, there are in the focus several distros:

Arcolinux of Belgium

Slax of the Czech Republic

Exherbo of Denmark

Daphile of Finland

Manjaro, Lubuntu, Mageia France

Manjaro, OpenSUSE, Haiku, Knopix of Germany

AntiX and MXlinux of Greece

Linux mint, Zorin, Solus Ireland

Endeavour and NixOS of the Netherlands

Alpine Linux Norway

SparkyLinux of Poland

Void of Spain

CRUX of Sweden

Kali Linux Switzerland

FerenOS, UK

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

https://european-alternatives.eu/categories

But if you trust more the US soft and services, use these and the malicious soft from there, without the rights and privacy of the EU but those from Trump and Musk.

Seems Fedora & KDE

A Trump photo in front of the cam.

Totalitarian states and dictatorships, have no interest in a population cultured

It always was, systematic and planned, Hamas paid by the Israelic gov to justify it, avoiding an Palestinian state. Netanyahu is the biggest nazi asshole on earth and all those who support him (US)

They funded it, but currently China don’t really US support anymore, their tecnology is even superior as the US one.

I am very far from being a child ( I’m over 70 and I probably have grandchildren of your age) and I know very well what is expected of the operating systems. What is childish is consider a system better than others, forgetting that this is always dependent on the opinions and needs of the individual.

I have used both, Windows as well as different distros of Linux, and I know very well the advantages and limitations of both. You forget that many corporate applications and professional ones (games apart) do only exist for Windows, with alternatives poor in Linux or just work poorly with Wine or in virtual environment.

Linux certainly has many advantages over Windows, but it has a big problem of a huge amount of different distros, not always compatible with each other, being apart (still) in general a minority system, with little presence in the market, and also a presence of less the availability of software, far from the amplitude of catalogues for Windows, even in respect of FOSS and FLOSS. Linux has advantages in field-specific uses, Windows, apart from its defects, is in the global scope. It’s very easy to say “use Linux” (Qu’ils mangent de la brioche) to someone who needs to use Windows for some reasons, instead of the way to get rid of the problems which he has with it.

But keep saying that the registry is of no importance, and with the following phrase that Windows stops working when something wrong is deactivated or deleted in one of the entries, just what I said before, this is childish and shows your “great knowledge” about how Windows works.

Cheers

I don’t think that China need anything from the US, but the US need almost everything from China and the rest of the world. All their tech depends on chips and raw materials from the Asiatic market