OK, thank you anyway.

Do you know if a name / address is required for https://njal.la/?

How so?

Yeah see what you think. They look good on the surface but some elements like their encrypted email hosting are still in development.

How would you say they compare with https://njal.la/? I have heard that https://njal.la/ you do not actually own the domain. Is the same true for https://incognet.io/?

What are your thoughts on https://incognet.io/?

Thank you for the suggestion of firejail. I will add it to my research list. Flatpak is something I am getting more familiar with already beginning to identify how it places restrictions on things compared to a system application even during my short experience of linux so far.

Although there are still privacy concerns, I can see myself preferring to buy games through GOG, any games that I do enjoy I will be purchasing because ethically I want to support the content creators for the things I enjoy and own the stuff I purchase. There was a time I’d pirate and just not care, but I have matured, I do care now. I want to support those in ethical alignment and who create the things that I enjoy. It is thanks to pirating I have a much more diverse taste and will probably buy more than someone who did not pirate in the first place. Plus all the recommendations I have made over the years to others who listen to my advice who then make purchases.

In the same way, once I find my footing and if I can find means to do so fitting with my privacy concerns I should like to donate to the projects that provide me with the things I find useful, for me. Like with linux mint and the open source software I use within. For now, I am spreading the word and helping others, getting more people involved where I can. Perhaps they can more easily donate where I cannot at the moment. Until I figure out the likes of crypto currency and means of anonymous purchase thereof, basically trying to find a private way to transfer money in a digital world my contribution is to the few I know, to help them into the world of open source and away from this big tech dominated dystopian future hell.

So yeah, I’m not just pirating to get stuff for free, it is more complicated than that.

Thank you for your thoughts and recommendations.

I’m not completely against it. I do recognise its threats to privacy, the planet, and intellect though. The average person trusts it too much.

Personally, I do not use it that much. I do however use it to help with research. I find being able to ask a question quite useful as a jumping off point for further research. I do not rely on it to answer correctly, simply to aid in pointing me in the right direction. Then I go off and do more specific research.

I have been moving from windows 10 to linux mint recently, it was quite useful in aiding with this at times. Not all the time, just at the right times. If there were a particular issue I was struggling with it could help point me in the right direction, though I would not trust it to simply spit out the right advise and commands to type to fix an issue without researching exactly what those commands did, how that would potentially help fix the issue and how to revert if it messed something up. I have seen many examples where the advise it gave was terrible and potentially destructive because I researched the advise it gave, had I of not it would have really messed things up. It must be used responsibly.

People are all to quick to talk into their phones, get a response and trust it to be all knowing. Their queries are forever recorded and logged to their personal identity without and option to opt out. I use privacy orientated search engines with ai functionality such as duckduckgo and ecosia. Ecosia makes it very easy to verify the sources of information given from their ai, also they put in efforts to be as green as possible. Very respectable.

So no, I am not against ai. I am against the usual way in which the average person uses it and the way the majority of companies are using it to exploit people and the planet to turn a profit.