Why do they even have such a shitty policy? What benefit would it have? Bully people into coming in?

Policies made by people thinking neurodivergent just need the right incentive to be "normal".

"Have you tried hard enough to be normal?" -- The people who set up that system probably.

Playing Town of Salem.

It's a game where some people play good guys some people play bad guys. And every day someone is put up for trial and you have to convince everyone you are a good guy so you don't get hanged.

So. I was put for trial and made a very laboured argument of why I had to be a good guy and shouldn't be hanged.

Someone replied "Fake and gay".

And they hung me. I was a dead bad guy.

my computer?

"Your computer?" -- Microsoft probably

Cool thanks. I just put mine up in my bio. Hopefully in the right spot.

I'm 35 and I already feel a little out of touch tbh. It's insane people in their 80s being in positions of power is so normalized.

If it's not obvious those rules are in place to punish women. Not to protect. They will never ever be applied in a protective way. That's not what they were made for.

Full IDEs kinda suck.

"wow you are trying to punish x people for wrongdoings of their parents/grandparents" is the argument it's trying to counter.

I welcome physical proof as well. But this isn’t Bigfoot or Loch Ness or anything like that. There’s a mountain of testimony spanning decades. Too much smoke for there to be no fire.

That's not how it works. Evidence isn't a "nice to have" on top of everything else, it's the bare minimum. Everything else is hearsay.

When something is real it doesn't beg for your trust, it begs for your eyes.

Good painless alternatives:

• Chrome -> Firefox

• Gmail/Calendar> Proton

• Google Search -> Feels like all search engines got SEO'd into uselessness these days, but duckduckgo maybe.

Good but somewhat painful to switch alternatives:

• Google Drive -> Proton

• Office -> LaTeX/LibreOffice

• ChromeOS -> Linux, yeah technically ChromeOS is also linux but come on, you know what I mean.

Less than ideal alternatives:

• Maps -> Idk, not really many good options, apple maps is good too, but not sure if that's what you're looking for.

• Android -> Idk, lol iOS, or de-googled android roms. Not many great alternatives there.

Is there anything else you need an alternative to?

It needs to "just work". It's not more complicated than that.