That’s usually the answer to these kind of questions.

Mine too.

Businesses can’t be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free.

Of course not but they themselves announced long ago that win10 will be EOL’d in October 2025. Then later they announced that you can buy extra support for plenty and increasing amounts of money. And now this.

Though even longer ago they announced that win10 will be the last windows ever.

So windows 10 isn’t EOL’d in October 2025 after all.

A solution is not to use any product, service or software made by MS or google.

According to wikipedia Forgejo development is run by Codeberg which is a non-profit organization so I doubt they will start charging money. GitLab is managed by a for-profit corporation so anything is possible with them.

Stop using github. Move to something else e.g. codeberg.

And Kotlin.

Good riddance. It was never about privacy anyhow. Only to enhance google’s monopoly in ads.

Ran into that as well. Just use “repair vesktop” option from the right click menu on the icon when it’s running. That fixes it. You’ll stay logged in etc.

Laughs in FreeTube.

The file system was not unmounted cleanly so the dirty bit is 1 -> windows tells you to check the drive. This clears the dirty bit even if nothing was wrong.

I use Jetbrains’ products for all my coding needs.

Perhaps it’s best to assume my social graph is already known by Google?

If your contacts have your info then definitely yes (plus all other big tech services they might be using).

As you seem to be privacy aware I’d recommend checking out this channel and this channel.

+1 for grapheneos.

If developers want to make a desktop application they should use proper cross platform desktop frameworks like QT or GTK or even JavaFX instead of a webpage disguised as an application.

What would you call it instead?

We already have (had) Iceweasel, IceCat and Waterfox among others. All nice word plays on the original Firefox name. LibreWolf follows along the same path.

Introduction to algorithms or The Art of Computer Programming.

If this is supposed to be a comparison for Kotlin developers why are all the Spring Boot examples in Java instead of Kotlin?

The whole article also is more of a what Ktor is and why it’s better instead of actually comparing the two.

Learn Groovy

Stay away from Groovy. It’s a horrible language. It’s quick to write but slow and difficult to read. It’s conventions make it a very error prone.

Link to the things you mention e.g. you say to get familiar with Loom. When searching for that all I get is some screen recording software (probably not what you meant).

Scala pays better than Java or Kotlin

According to what research?