Oldie but Goldie.

Note that flat earth society are anti flat earthers.

You have a problem, say an accident, even one you are yourself to blame.

You or someone else calls an ambulance, you go to the hospital, you get help, then you go home and life continues.

The total absence of problems and even thinking about cost is very much quality of life and means smaller problems get fixed before they get really expensive for you and in effect for society.

I don’t care?

Install a vm (or use wsl) and just work in Linux in there.

You get root, and can use software that respects you. For a speed penalty of course.

Alternative, if you like your Platform not enshitified. I do.

Well, Road signs Need to be changed every twenty or so years anyway. So just switch them then. Who cares if the transition takes that long?

You do realize, that all industries that sell worldwide already did this?

Non American here…. Why not just use the same units as the rest of the world? Just to be less confusing? So fareinheit you might like better, you’ll get along with Celsius too after getting used to them.

Not quite sure what kind of privacy you need, but matrix is reasonably easy to self host, and allows you to federate if you want.

Also has plenty of clients.

If you want low tech, hosting IRC is easy too.