I don’t know who this is, but he clearly made some people here upset. :D
The whole post is about him not finding any sensible use for a 1 Gbit Internet connection for himself. He never ever mention any one else.
I really don’t understand how this can be offensive for anyone else. Why is he not allowed to have an option about himself?
PS. I do believe that the title is somewhat click-bait though.
Helium should be fine. They’re, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for ‘regular’ people who care about their privacy.
It does, and there’s nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser.
That’s an old copypasta. It never happened. And the boy in the original story was from Venezuela, and it was his uncle who helped him. Not that it really matters.
Edit: Spelling.
Paying for software is an exception, not a rule.
And we only have proprietary software because there’s greedy people out there that take advantage of people who don’t know better.
With that said. I’m not saying that developers shouldn’t get paid for what they do. They absolutely should! And a lot of them do, even when the code is free as in free beer and free speech.