Don't count standard notes out just yet!

They offer discounted plans upon request!

https://standardnotes.com/help/56/what-if-i-can-t-afford-the-price-of-extended

Valve's Artifact Classic card game. I actually found the basic formula to be really fun.

I think this game died for two reasons:

A) The game was review bombed for its monetization (IMO a lot of this was the non-target audience trying it and leaving a bad review)

B) Valve said following the review bombing that they were going to make major changes. This resulted in a lot of Artifact fans (IMO) leaving the game because ... why invested and learn a game that's going to undergo major changes.

So Valve worked on Artifact Foundry (and never finished it) ... before eventually everyone at Valve gave up and released both Artifact Classic and Artifact Foundry for free. The original Artifact Classic is still a great time with a friend and all cards are now totally free so you can build whatever decks you want.

It's basically a AAA studio card game, with cross platform support, released in complete, for free ... because of some poor decision making. Some things may be unbalanced but if you're playing with friends anyways ... just have a friendly agreement to not use the cards that cause problems in your decks. It also could bounce back into active development if it starts to acquire a player base again (because Valve).

You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain -- DC Comics

(I hope they do find a way to make this "for the best" -- maybe reviving Scroll like technology + private advertising + actually checking to make sure advertisers are legitimate so you can pay to turn ads off on lots of websites and the ads aren't leading to malware -- but it's very concerning in general)

AFAIK, Windows firewall is perfectly fine, usable in commercial spaces, etc. You're probably going to be getting into more "hobbyist" firewalls even if you do find one ... and a firewall isn't something you particularly want that with. You want something that's well designed and well maintained.

(I say this as a guy that has run Linux on basically everything for ... over a decade)

If you're going to use Windows ... just use Windows firewall. There's no real reason that I can think of anyways to replace that one component with something FOSS.

Proton because I get it basically for free under my existing Proton plan and because of Proton's stellar reputation.

That's not to say the apps aren't a bit buggy or missing (Linux doesn't have one) though.

Best for what requirements?

Lots of space? Ease of use? What devices? Web access? Etc

Well, the image format is based on indexed color for compression purposes ... But it's not like it calls out "these indexes should be customizable".

Huh... So it does. Interesting.

We need to invent an image format that let's chart colorw be tweaked after the fact lol

What's your source that there's not warming in the southern hemisphere?

The temperature readings would look different because winter and summer are flipped, but they absolutely should be attributing a similar effect.

I strongly disagree, email is a train wreck for secure communication.

Proton has done a pretty good job of making an implementation that's actually secure but PGP email has fundamental flaws like the subject line and recipient being clear text on the message, user error/key management complexity, and it's also just a high-friction means of communication vs "texting" or "IRC"-like approaches.