Well, yeah, you can. Whoever told you that you can’t, don’t believe them, they are probably being payed to say it. You could also pay for the book to support the author but most likely your money will not go to the author so don’t bother.

Are we even sure it’s the same person?

Yeah, nothing important. Just your banking apps, personal documents, photos, government apps, emails, all the services linked to your phone via mobile number, personal chats, work chats, 2fa codes, some other not important stuff. But at least it doesn’t have your games. Unless you play games on your phone, then you are fucked.

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They know, read their yearly financial reports. They said for a decade that Windows is not only not profitable, there’s no future for it. Microsoft for several years now is a company that sells cloud and opensource services(Linux, Github, etc).

you need an active online account and the key will be saved online

Is there a legit reason for this? Why can’t they just encrypt the data with the password used to access the online account?

In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source

That’s just incorrect. Apart from 3 guys who have no better things to do no one in “Linux-land” does that.

We are like one and a half years and thousands of people now when we know it won’t happen.

It probably won’t, they were banned due to sanctions that the EU completely support. Though they were unblocked so it raises questions was the ban even legitimate and also why it took 2 weeks to unban them.

Edit. Also will it be as easy to organize ban of other services by making a commit with Russian vpn?

before they protest.

*instead of protesting.

That’s a weird take from Angela. Why would you make concessions before the negotiations even started?

Ah yeah, located in Sweden, country known for the Pirates Bay scandal that may also soon introduce a law requiring apps to have backdoors to access user’s data. Great choice.