I saw this coming, with no easy way to cancel the monthly subscription and decided to pay with a prepaid credit card instead...glad I did, it saved me from getting robbed.

Well that's cool:). Remove the profit motive/surplus goes a long way to slow down evil.

The part I love the most is that the US is taking such a huge financial hit to defend against relatively inexpensive attacks. It seems so fitting that the worlds richest nation can be bled like this.

Bringing peace is surprisingly lucrative -- for weapons contractors, black rock and now the mining industry, huh 🙈

Because Americans are obsessed with iphones, as a status symbol and "American" product and it's a default...no effort required.

Kdenlive is likely your best bet. Even if u have issues here and there, in the long term you'll be happy you stuck with it. It has very active development and is shaping up to be the most used foss video editor.

Bucky was right once again with his theory of "Ephemeralization" https://dbpedia.org/page/Ephemeralization ... The only reason we're concerned with these companies employing Devs and spending Billions to do what small teams of FOSS are able to achieve is simply a bad economic system that requires "make work" or Bullshit jobs for wages to feed the parasite class, instead of us living like the Jetson's. Time to move one!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools

Time for #abode , I want to believe ;)

Your emails are already scanned by Gmail at that point, so you're defeating the purpose

So great that you're doing this!

Owncast, the foss twitch alternative, is an incredible project and they've been looking for design help for quite some time... https://owncast.online/

Of course this is true, but moving to a privacy respecting OS, like linux or buying a phone w a custom ROM installed goes a long, long way to improving the situation.