True.

And while we wait we keep our factories running, our cars on the street, our planes in the air, our meat on the tables, our plastic wrapped around everything and keep believing that we will be just fine.

This applies to so many things. Someone’s lifestyle might come under attack, someone’s religion might be persecuted, someone has sensitive information to share, and so on and so forth.

I would say it is openSUSE Aeon.

An immutable distro that you install and it “just works”. Applications come in via the onboard Software Manager (using Flatpack). It is almost impossible to break, as the system itself is read-only. If an update should break something, the OS rolls back itself. It can do this, because it’s basically updating what you’ll get after the next reboot, not the running system. If something goes wrong, it reboots to the working version.

Still in development, but super stable.

Edit: spelling

Not mentioned in the article, but I wish there were a (simple) way to get Microsoft Store apps to run on Linux. Some do by jumping through technical hoops, but many don’t.

For reference: Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

Ah. You pray at the altar of Google with the mantra: “It only works in Chrome or Edge. Why not upgrade your browser?”

What could possibly go wrong with giving all the power to one browser engine? If only there was a precedent to learn from…

Global peace and security.

Why would anyone buy prepacked sandwiches anyway? They’re expensive and you obviously never know what you get.

What’s the issue with buying some bread and preparing some at home? Cheaper, healthier and really doesn’t cost much time at all. Plus, this doesn’t use as much plastic.

I really wish this would gain some traction. As it is, there is just not enough content there to compete with YouTube in any reasonable way.

Thank you. I feel like I’ve found a new way to respect developers that I hadn’t considered before.

there are limits

I am glad you have a moral centre.

But that is the capitalist way. A Redditor once wrote: “*Corporations have no morals, no ethics, no code of conduct, no feelings, no empathy, and zero accountability. They have one goal and one goal only: to increase profits at all costs.”

Case in point: the climate crisis. Corporations are literally destroying their own home for a symbol of success that, like their products, is man-made: money. It is the ultimate pursuit of vanity.

Crazy, if you think about it for a moment.

What’s the problem with just producing the necessary quality and being honest? Is that too expensive, making the lie more profitable?

Jup. It just says that “the malware was disguised as PDF and QR code readers”.

Not helpful, Mashable. Not helpful at all.

Recent iterations of Windows have been easy to install, esp. when using an entire drive. I (almost) never had issues.

https://www.neowin.net/news/a-quick-look-back-at-when-microsoft-created-a-comic-book-generating-online-chat-client/

…tyrannis

Though you might have thought of Darth Tyranus. Which is fine.

That is much easier said than done.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306022/whatsapp-global-unique-users/

You are right on all counts.

Just not sure if “easy” is the operative word here.

A backup and restore utility which allows me to export/restore system settings and installed apps. This would make a reinstalll much less time consuming and allow installs of the same configuration on other computers.

Yeah, everytime I see it, I feel sorry for it.

And the joke is actually good… because it’s the truth.