XDG User dirs are cool, i agree. But that’s not really the problem here

Well, they aren’t even replying to whether the community-developed rclone backend breaks TOS, so don’t expect much… but yeah, i pay for Proton and they’re good for what they are.

Which isn’t a lot of time if we’re being honest

They’re very reliable from my experience

Just checked, you’re right about Google. Microsoft does allow you to use any app though. It’s funny that the “EEE” Microsoft is less anti-user than the “Don’t be evil” Google. But anyway, seeing how Google locks it down, I’m sure there must be others too. So you’re right

Which services aren’t supported?

It does have automatic Android cloud backups and does support local backups, which also supports backing up to Nextcloud.

The huge-looking sizes are not representative of actual size on disk. On first installation of one app of a kind, their runtime packages get installed as well. For example, installing GNOME apps will install the latest GNOME runtime. But after that, installing any other GNOME app takes little to no space.

In your case, you don’t seem to have any apps installed as Flatpaks, which means even the freedesktop runtimes are missing and need to be installed. That’s probably why it looks so huge.

Just use fish or setup autocompletions and suggestions on your terminal.

Refusing to hire a babysitter with a history of sexual abuse isn’t “punishment for pre-crime”. It’s just being smart and avoiding extreme risk to your children.

That feels like a poor analogy simply due to the fact that this discussion is about federating with Threads rather than asking everybody to join Threads itself.

I hope so, but I somehow doubt it. Reddit has so many casual users who were never even aware of the existence of third party apps and consider the protests to be “pointless”.

Do you have cookies disabled somewhere?

There is no cross-login. You login on your current instance and get to follow communities, users, threads, etc from other instances from within your current instance.