This is exactly my worry. Usually the reason a VPN is free is because they’re selling your data on the backend. No thank you.

That’s so frustrating.

I have a discord with 14 friends that we’re abandoning. I created a Root community (yeah, not open source or self hosted, but it’s what I can do) and we’ve had 7 move over in the last month. The rest have 2 weeks before the discord gets deleted …

I mean they do sometimes without the proper safety protocols in place, but you still blame the user in the end.

Ditto.

Just like discord, do they think we’re stupid? Who here is going to say, “Oh, they changed the wording? They pushed the dates back? Well nevermind, I’ll reinstall!”

Trust me, the GOP doesn’t think it’s a problem.

Ya, no shit.

There it is again. Have a day.

Absolutely. My spouse is a teacher and I have many friends who are, too. I see it every day. The “good” teachers use technology to the benefit of themselves and the students, using it when appropriate and when best applicable. No doubt there are teachers and students out there who use it as a crutch. Like you said though, we need to be able to switch between analog and digital, figuring out when either is better suited.

I play RPGs. I do all of my characters and planning and stuff with pencil and paper. I do a lot of my GM work digitally. You need to be able to do both today, or else you’re not going to be prepared for adulthood.