It’s literally a third-party service that let’s others control your desktop. Doesn’t matter how FOSS the clients and end servers are, one also needs to trust the intermediate servers. If those running them are caught dishonest about which country they’re located, the trust evaporates. China or not.
Found the American. Your US is a rich small country by population, so US income sizes have virtually zero impact on the world-wide median.
$50 is, like, a week of median per-capita household income.
developers who make a $60 game (that’s actually worth $60)
This oversimplification ruins all the reasoning. There is no clear single “worth” of the game for a global market. 32527 people are willing to pay $60 for it (loyal fanbase + rich), 23886 more if it’s $50, 42110 more if it’s $40, 12280 if it’s $30 etc. would be a better model.
Fruit trees. There’s a ton of them.
I run syncthing with my own relay and I trust that setup. Owning me through syncthing would basically require backdooring the software, something that’d be likely to go noticed by the syncthing community.
Rustdesk is a backdoor by functionality and it’s already using infra I don’t control. I don’t feel comfortable using that.