Aaaah ... I was wondering if I was the only person caring about that !! Thank you you made my day...
No way I would provide my cell phone to a marketing company just to access a useless service that I know by design being incorrect although of course it is presented in way specifically crafted to fool people. After all this is just my phone text completion mechanism on steroïds.
Nevertheless, it made people in my office laugh a lot on the non-sense source code it was producing... So +1 for the laugh...

Although it may look strange at first sight, a mindmapping software is a pretty strong option when dealing with notes taking, and this is due to the fact taking notes is not something linear. You write down few points then come back to the first one, add some extra info etc... When you know the keyboard shortcuts in a mindmapping software, nothing can beat this ! Give it a try...
FreePlane which is FreeMind replacement is very intuitive and Open Source, but you could probably use any other Mindmapping software...

I have seen things evolving along the years about this. 20 years ago, microsoft was pure evil, and FUD was their only position about open source in general and linux in particular. But over the year they have somehow realized that linux was the only OS powering data centers around the globe and that developers didn't care anymore about windows when dealing with networked software, even after trying for years to provide azure services based on windows servers crap they finally went for full linux. Their best move was clearly WSL to attract developers in need of desktop machines able to replicate the behavior of their production machines while keeping organizations in the realm of windows. I use WSL daily in my job and even if it is far slower than the bare metal equivalent this is already very usable and mostly reliable. Eventually developers may get fed up with the overhead of crap the windows part of the os introduces in their development flows, but basically it works and organizations are not composed of developers only and unfortunately we have to deal with it. So after years trying to discredit linux they finally had to embrace it, even if was clearly not their original choice. But for sure microsoft is the kind of ally to open source that you'd better keep an eye on...
Apple is a totally different beast. First the OS is not bad. This is not linux yet it is a real unix system, their didn't try to reinvent the wheel as microsoft did. I've never liked their UI but this is just a matter of taste. All the energy deployed by apple is turned towards building a walled garden, the higher the fence the better. They don't care about server development, so they don't care that linux powers 90% of online machines, they don't care about linux for the mobile because they promote their own ios walled garden, they don't care about openness they just want to ensure that a paid software running on their os will not sell something not going through their own revenue channels, they don't care about being able to fix or reuse hardware, they just want you to buy the new version. So yes I think that avoiding apple is a far more ethical and political positioning than technical.
That said and as I started my reply with this, things change, and no one knows how things will evolve. 20 year ago google motto was "don't be evil" and today their goal is to replicate the walled garden business apple put in place with ChromeOS... so who knows. The only thing I know is that Open Source will remain open thanks to the licences.

Actually neither Windows nor MacOS are acceptable as OSes for very different reasons. Windows for its poor quality and MacOS for more ethical and political reasons. The only way to really compare the two hardware platforms is by using the same OS, and that is to use GNU/Linux distributions. Historically Windows PCs were more likely to be able to be converted into GNU/Linux machines, Apple has always made whatever they could to make it as hard as possible to escape their walled garden. Eventually there is most of the times someone coming with a solution for this. So to come back to the choice you generally have to choose between the latest generation PC, fully supported, or the previous Apple generation... that renders the choice obvious. Maybe it could evolve in the future and in this case I may even consider buying one day a Mac, and do what I do for decades with Windows machines I buy, blast the pre-installed OS at first boot...

For one time ms is acknowledging their actual strategy. The "client" terminology has a meaning, and it is "don't expect to do something without a server" which in the domain of OSes means give up on your ownership of your own machine and let remote ms services take over... Actually that's what Google is already doing with ChromeOS for years and sadly it doesn't look like anybody is shocked about that.

Who would want to use such tools ?? Eliminating centralized services be they from FB, Google, Apple or whoever is a sane practice.
Federation is the answer to censorship, and Matrix , which is a decentralized and secure protocol powers Element.io chat which is way better and secure than anything else, and guess it, it already works on every platform... Cherry on the cake it supports ActivityPub to interact with the rest of the Fediverse...

...outside of Europe.

That's basically what happened with every polluting industry...
Would be nice to include importations impact in global calculation of the greenhouse gas emission.

Why would we trust Tesla or Uber or whoever ? Trust may eventually come from knowledge. Why would anyone trust private algorithms, to "behave" correctly on roads ? Any company willing to access roads should fully open-source their algorithms and training datasets in case of AI. If not they should simply be banned to their own private roads and have no authorized access to public ones...

Open-source, collaborative and privacy friendly.
All sort of things google has less and less understanding of what it means.

Chromium remains tightly related to google servers. Same sync features found in Chrome, allowing you to log in with a Google account and sync your data, as well as some other options which are enabled by default. You can see these features listed on the Chromium Settings page. They include a web service that helps fix "errors" in web addresses, a prediction service, google’s anti-phishing feature...
On top of this, there is no official builds with auto-update, which make it unsuitable to be recommended to users who don't closely follow updates, unless they rely on third party builds for which you can never (or at least not easily, if feasible) be sure they didn't re-activate some of the features that are normally part of Chrome and normally de-activated in Chromium builds.
So for sure I do not put Chromium at the level than Chrome or of course Edge, especially if you closely follow updates of the official builds. Nevertheless I would not recommend this browser to non technical enough people for the aforementioned reasons that you may find "stupid", but which as a matter of fact exist and make a difference with Firefox. And yes it is painful, because the of nature itself of the arguments against it are not really hitting less technical people, especially those who prefer to believe in the comfort of their nice google dreams...

It's already painful enough to tell people they should not use Chrome (or even Chromium), but Firefox instead. I think adding to the picture the last spyware from XBox-PC-OS would be too much...

Once with of course Linux, and a second time with Git which now the de-facto standard for code management ! My hero !

Here at Google we like open source.
That is why we have open-sourced a specially crafted version of curl so that you can offer us your data for our proprietary stuff...

I see that you are projecting your own socks/basement experience...
I already went to a number of the extreme conditions you could find on Earth from cold to hot deserts. I apologize I never went to rain/primitive forests but it is obviously not relevant talking about Mars, yet paradises compared to what you could expect from a Mars settlement.
So you, great couch adventurer, with the great experience you have probably based on the SF that seems to be feeding you, you have actually all the required skills because the conditions on Mars will be closer to a stationary submarine crew member than the explorer you may dream to be. So I wish you luck with your socks on Mars, that may become your main activity there...

I would never have thought that I would be so happy someone invests in nuclear fission...
Joke apart, I am afraid nevertheless this kind of reactor will end-up spreading down here on earth. Because apart from Mr Musk, who could probably afford a return ticket, who would like to settle buried liked rats on a desert, solar wind swept, non-breathable hostile planet ? In a very distant future, should you be able to reach Mars in few days (or less), going there to visit and obviously come back, why not. But honestly to consider to stay, you have to be seriously damaged even before leaving...