But no one can take a file from my hard drives either. No need for it to be on a low-capacity disk when a thing half the size of a DVD box can fit orders of magnitude more.

That seems to be closed-source tho

If the disk is going to be unused/thrown out anyway - why not buy a digital copy? Its only job would be corresponding to a usable file you download anyway… I do that with Steam games.

This is yet another way tying accounts to phone numbers can come back to bite you! I guess pulling out means denying registration from the country’s numbers as well? So that would mean either a constant additional expense (which might be significant for poor people), or constantly risk getting the account deleted if you tied it to one-time rental.

Idk, I would be cautious about trusting my personal notes to a proprietary piece of software…

Me with folders upon folders of plain .txt:

Used to be.

After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020, governance of the project was transferred to Linux Foundation Europe. Development work officially continues at the same GitHub repository with the project itself entirely volunteer driven.

If we are comparing it to Chrome, it is more like Ungoogled-Chromium.

I would not rely on provider-dependent encryption anyway. If you want actual encryption - use PGP.

For me, the main advantage of the model is “you cannot conveniently observe everyone’s activity from one place”.