This is all of the bits that aren’t the operating system.

Agreed. Apple provides a free service locked to their hardware. It shouldn’t be surprising that they patched the vulnerabilities and blocked accounts.

Your chosen GNU/Linux distribution installs the applications.

Lutris is great, I use it myself.

However, if you have a friend fresh from Windows who already uses steam and you say, tick compatible proton 8 or latest and click play vs install new software and then add the game you’ve already lost the easy battle.

Not true, steam makes it incredibly easy. Install steam, tick compatibility option, install, click green play button.

What bad do they do?

The Server Name Identification (SNI) standard means that the hostname may not be encrypted if you’re using TLS. Also, whether you’re using SNI or not, the TCP and IP headers are never encrypted. (If they were, your packets would not be routable.)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/187655/are-https-headers-encrypted#187679

Strongly disagree, some exchanges don’t even have fiat on-ramps.

Blockchain is inefficient and pointless when users centralise on coinbase and binance.

Why bother with the overhead of blockchain when users centralise on a handful of banks exchanges.

Everyone is different. I think the freedom to do that is better than being arbitrarily locked out. If you are winning tournaments, why wouldn’t you hold your own against the portal enemies? Makes sense to me.

I think this is the best solution. rclone also has built in crypt too.

Edit: built in crypt if you configure it for use

Default is too small for me too.

Would it be possible to add the original app icon back in as an option?

Concrete? Wood and a tiny bit of metal is fine in the earth.

I notice it’s never compared to a traditional burial which is better for the environment.