While true, why are you linking this comment in almost all the other comments?

I’ve been stuck repeatedly asking myself this question ever since reading your comment 😩 Please be careful about throwing infinite while true loops around! Now I need someone to Ctrl-C me.

That’s interesting. I’ve always thought the name a little weak, so you prompted me to find its origins. According to wiki:

Taler is short for the “Taxable Anonymous Libre Economic Reserves”[7][8] and alludes to the Taler coins in Germany during the Early Modern period.

That definitely looks like a backronym! Anyway, the wiki for the Taler coins says this:

The word is shortened from Joachimsthaler, the original thaler coin minted in Joachimsthal, Bohemia, from 1520.

So the original root appears to be Thal or Tal i.e. valley (just like Neanderthal/Neandertal). The Taler wiki page goes on:

[The Holy Roman Empire’s] longest-lived coin was the Reichsthaler, which contained 1⁄9 Cologne Mark of fine silver (or 25.984 g), and which was issued in various versions from 1566 to 1875.

Was Denmark part of the Holy Roman Empire? Either way, your ancestors would’ve presumably often traded with Germans using these early Thaler/Taler coins.

Looks interesting - and ambitious. Who are you targeting this for? Non-tech people who do everything on their phones? What would attract such people to make the switch?

Anyway good luck. Do you allow people to use their own (or a third party’s) email domain? A lot of people would not want to give up their established email address.

(And a small thing - it’s spelt leisure not leasure! Otherwise it looks good and professional)

I’m probably misunderstanding as I rarely use word processing software, so I apologise if you talking about something more than the system’s own handling of touchpad scrolling! here’s the settings applet for XFCE, I think every DE will have similar options (it does even offer circular scrolling, but I know you aren’t looking for that):

Gesture scrolling? You mean like making clockwise or anticlockwise circles to scroll up or down? I’d have thought that kind of functionality would be handled by the touchpad driver, not individual programs.

The usual stuff here - Wero instead of PayPal for person-to-person payments (but only if your bank supports it), use Girocard in shops rather than Visa or Mastercard, threema as a chat app, make use of your library’s e-book services, try to switch to a European email provider. They give two German-based examples for email - both of whom charge €1 per month for the lowest tier.

In my view, it was the US tech companies willingness to offer their services without charge that led to their current dominance.

Apparently threema asks for a one-time payment of €6, which reminded me that WhatsApp at first was an independent app that charged a one-off 50p if you wanted to use it after the first year.

That was low enough that many people did pay, making the developers a lot of money. Not superyacht money but still a tidy income. They made the superyacht money when Facebook bought them. Facebook then got rid of the one-off 50p charge of course, because they were going for world domination.

So the question is, how much are the general public willing to pay for privacy and some kind of corporate accountability?

You live in a fantasy world if you think “Don’t go” is a feasible alternative. If I don’t go, someone else will, and all I’ve done is deprive myself of something that I want to make a point

Come on mate, you could say this about any kind of protest or boycott.

all I’ve done is deprive myself of something that I want to make a point

Yes that is exactly how boycotts work. You make a personal sacrifice as a protest against something that’s unfair or immoral.

If you’re not prepared to make a sacrifice, that’s OK, but at least have the honesty to admit you just don’t care enough about this particular issue.

Such a cop-out. Every boycott is a personal sacrifice, and every individual participating in a boycott knows that their one purchase isn’t by itself going to make a difference.