The only reasonable option here is to switch to LibreOffice or some other FOSS product.

Don’t know what you are referring to as Internet but I was referring to the low level infrastructure and the technologies at that level. Also Internet != www.

Thought I was sensing sarcasm in your message.

PS: And CERN is actually an international project, rather than just Swiss, though located in Switzerland.

Quite true.

Internet itself (the network) is based on arpanet which was developed by ARRPA now known as DARPA which part of the US Department of Defense.

CERN is Swiss though and Tim Berners-Lee is English.

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That’s actually a very poor example because the US and Europe have very different regulatory frameworks. The US actually requires more details when listing ingredients than Europea does.

In the EU you must list all ingredients in your product. Ordered by what it has the most.

It has a mac build but last I checked only nightly build were available for mac.

Nokia is doing just fine. They’re mostly focused on networking stuff nowadays. They left the phone business when MS bought it.

Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.

They don’t require anything. You can leave that empty or just put John Doe. All that is required for an account on a Linux system is a username and a password.

I truly hate this. At work I’ve told everyone that if they just send a “hello” message it will be ignored. I have things to do other then going twenty rounds of “hello” before getting into the actual subject.

They didn’t change name. OpenOffice still exists. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

Support your local European companies.

Maybe. Though I haven’t seen anything of that sort over the years. They’ve been around quite a while and long ago they removed all ads from their platform.

We do. It’s called Romeo. No nonsense. No AI. Just people. They listen to their users.

People should stop using these ad and tracking apps disguised as some useful app.

The classical “think of the children” argument. They truly are desperate to keep their walled garden. The EU is doing the right thing.

They said text stop but didn’t say where to.

They were already losing before MS bought them.

Prices mysteriously go up about a week before prime day sales, then drop to a few dollars below normal, scream “39% off” and you feel like you beat the system.

Gladly this practice is illegal in Finland at lest. Here companies having sales have to show the lowest price of that product within the last 30 days just for this very reason.