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Here's my list:

• Proton Mail: super painless to migrate over and a very similar user experience. Feels good knowing that Google can't read my emails and that they can't be subpoenaed by our insane government. Highly recommend. There's a free plan that offers 1GB of storage but I went straight to a paid account so I can't speak to that.
• Proton Pass: LOVE this. It was easy to import my passwords from LastPass and Google. The best feature is the "hide my email alias" which on my plan I can make unlimited ones. It's basically making an anonymous throwaway email that automatically forwards to your inbox. If you start getting junk mail you can see who sold your address, but also with one click you can delete it if it gets compromised. It's basically the equivalent of making a bunch of different Google accounts but way easier.
• Proton Drive: It came with my subscription but I haven't gotten that deep into it yet. It has a Docs alternative but not Sheets which I use a lot, so I'm hoping they develop something like that. Otherwise like a lot like drive. It's technically a photo backup too but the interface is trash (see next item). My goal is to get enough transferred that I can cancel my Google One subscription and maybe just use that for Sheets as needed.
• Ente Photos: Cloud-based photo backup. I'm slowly getting my photos transferred over but it seems to be pretty user friendly. It has some but not all of the features of Google Photos, like organizing by faces.
• Brave Search: They have a browser too but I'm just using the search in Firefox at the moment. I like that it's not based on Google's index but it sometimes means the results are not quite as good. Honestly for the payoff of not being algorithmed to death I'm fine with that.

I've been using the app for a while and had no idea it was a European app. I'm an (embarrassed by my country) American so I'm glad that I'm supporting a European company, and the businesses in my area that use it are all small local businesses.

I live in the US and honestly, I don't think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.

Your assumption is correct, thank you, I edited :)

I had no idea that there was ever actually a moment for Esperanto that got blocked! I figured it had just been dismissed out of hand since its inception.

What funny is apparently he was pressured by Zuck into resigning from Meta because it looked bad that he was supporting Trump....

I hope one day you can find better friends

Keep an eye on it and ask your loved ones to keep an eye on it too. It can get much worse with age, and tends to be harder to recover from after every major episode.

Honestly I think so ~~menu little~~ many people would be on board with something like this since so many people speak multiple languages. Unfortunately, I can't imagine a world where even 50% of Americans would even try to learn a second language. I think many would outright refuse as a matter of anti intellectual and xenophobic ideology.

It's not really that diverse though. Overwhelmingly, the language of diplomacy and business currently is English.

William Shatner made that movie though

Honestly I was trying to learn Esperanto for a while, it's very easy since it was constructed to not contain irregular conjugations or pronunciations. But getting everyone to learn Esperanto would never happen.

If the global language ever changes from English, I assume it will be to Chinese.

Dialect was probably the wrong word, because of course there's many different dialects in many countries. (In fact, your aside about "sounds very US American" is funny, since I guarantee the US has more dialects than Spain. Plenty to hate on the US for, but that ain't it.)

Anyway idk if there's a word for this but like, the intermediary level between a language and a dialect. There is a wide gulf between Spanish spoken in Spain vs Latin America the same way as English in the UK vs USA. That macro-level distinction breaks down into trees of further distinction in regions, cities, towns of course.

No.