I don’t mind changes, but I want to be able to decide when they happen. Maybe I’m just traumatized from the last time I used a rolling release distro and suddenly Gnome 3 landed and replaced Gnome 2. I did not like that.

She has a track record of going after big tech, which can be a bit surprising as she is a republican. People were surprised that Trump chose her. That’s what the whole origin of “Proton CEO is pro-Trump” is about. Trump chose someone who isn’t a friend of big tech, and the Proton CEO posted that it was a good choice. This article explains the whole thing step by step: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

Honest question, do you think Gail Slater was a good or bad choice?

As a long time debian user, I have my eyes on Leap. I value stability (in the unchanging functionality sense) over latest versions.

Tumbleweed or Leap or something else?

I like the debian way with a separate repo for the non-free things needed for the hardware to function, so it’s not all or nothing. I want my wifi to work, but beyond things like that I only want free software.

I like it this way. When you say old, I hear “the environment is predictable”. What works today won’t break in a week because an update changed functionality of something. As long as I have hardware support, I don’t need the latest packages for what I do.

Hmm, but also construction workers building offices. How far does this rabbit hole go? An office worker involved in a project to hire construction workers to build an office for a construction company?

Ugh, I’ve been down the same rabbit hole, but gave up and just downloaded the jdk to my home directory and set the java path in vscodium to point to it. Same with maven.

As someone not from the US, what can we do to help?

Good points. I’ll have to ponder this for a while.

Dilemma: Fedora has introduced and worked on a lot of things that make “Year of Linux on the Desktop” more likely. Even if UNIX purists disagree with the direction, Fedora is what Ubuntu used to be back in the day. Linux for humans.

At the same time, it’s possible due to corporate backing. American corporate backing even. A part of me thinks that if we can’t get there as a community without corporate influence, then it’s all for nothing. I want the community model to not just be an ethical alternative, but that this model of cooperation also produces the best results.

(PS. I’m open for having my view changed, maybe I’m thinking about this the wrong way.)

This could be a Black Mirror episode. A sentient ad that felt pain when skipped fighting to avoid pain. It would have no option than to try to get around ad-blockers and be sneaky and feel bad about annoying users, but the alternative is pain.

If you plan to use it, you should know that there was a separate “good news”-event at that point in time. It would not surprise me if insider trading happened, but that spike could also be from the bond auction. As much as I want the US to lose their influence in the world, it’s important to not jump to conclusions for political reasons. The spike should be investigated properly, but at this point the US might be too corrupt for that to happen or have consequences.

Something similar happened in Sweden, the politicians said that the EU is forcing Sweden to store data about users. Like, “we don’t want this… but we have no choice!” And then it turned out that what they did was actually against EU laws and Sweden was fined for doing what they did and ordered to stop.

“They” being some proponents starting with Ylva Johansson, but it’s also true that they have never had a majority to actually make chat control happen. They keep trying, but “they” are not the EU as a whole.

Danish?

Found it in the classic The UNIX Programming Environment from 1984:

But then, this is for return, which technically isn’t “enter”, but nowadays they are sort of interpreted the same by programs?

Isn’t ctrl-m the “enter” equivalent?

The list of allies is not that long at the moment.