In factual reality, you own every bit of hardware the thing comes with and every capability of it. Anybody who tells you otherwise is a goddamn liar and a thief!

End. Of.

Edit: I downvoted you because of the “technically they haven’t paid for the feature yet” part, not the “it’s cheaper to manufacture without having a second line” part. Make no mistake: everyone who buys the vehicle pays for the feature. Some are getting swindled into paying for it twice.

West of the Caribbean, between Guatemala and Nicaragua. But that’s not important right now.

It’s always projection.

Russia can’t win militarily so they attack Ukraine’s civilians. Despicable.

There’s also Ubuntu (which is even less cool than Mint, i guess, but nevertheless exists).

Not radioactive enough, and way too tropical to be a suitable punishment. My vote would be the South Sandwich Islands, but I’d also accept St. Helena (where they sent Napoleon) if marooning them on an uninhabited polar island is considered too “inhumane” or something.

There have been a few others, but we don’t remember them because they failed.

That’s the pettiest shit I’ve ever read.

I’m no arborist, but I think the reason the branches get too tall and break easily is because you’re pruning it wrong. It’s so desperate to grow that it’s sending up water sprouts instead of having proper branching.

Bullies need to be fucking punched in the face, the sooner the better. Trying to be cautious and not overreact only encourages them to escalate.

There is no such thing as “too early” when retaliating against a bully.

Why would you pollard an olive tree?

The kernel is copyleft (100% of it).

Technically, sort of, but GPLv2 isn’t good enough. Stuff has to be GPLv3 (or AGPLv3) to fulfill the intent of protecting the end user’s right to control their machine. That’s the essential thing people are looking for when they choose “Linux” — if it’s a tyrant device like a smart TV that’s subverted to work against the user by showing ads or whatever, nobody gives a shit if it’s running a Linux kernel because that fact doesn’t actually help them usurp the manufacturer’s control.

Usurpation of control is what “GNU/Linux” implies. The fine details of which software has what license isn’t the point; whether the system as a whole delivers on the promise of user freedom is.

Death sentence seems quite called for in a country that uses it regularly.

Or even one that doesn’t. If any crime deserves to be a capital offense, it’s shit like this.

See, this shit is why insisting on “GNU/Linux” is actually important. It’s the copyleft and the end user freedom it provides that matters, not the kernel.

Sabotaged Linuxes like Android just don’t cut it and shouldn’t count.

Russia can’t beat Ukraine’s military so it attacks its people.

And more to the point, your work computer should be provided by your employer. If you’re buying that shit yourself, you’re a chump who’s being taken advantage of.

The oil execs are saying it’s “uninvestable” precisely because they know how incompetent Trump is.

Note that the world’s top 1% is 83 million people, which includes way more than 1% of the population of places like the US and western Europe.

If you’re a “middle class” homeowner in a high cost-of-living area, you’re part of this statistic.

You’re right that they’re doing this because it’s their genuine agenda, not a distraction.

You’re wrong that it’s not worth continuing to hammer on the Epstein files. Like Tim Walz calling them “weird,” it’s one of the few things that seems to move the needle on some of his support.

Ah, TIL. I just figured it was the KDE-est general-purpose distro.

But still, shouldn’t it at least have a development version of Plasma Login Manager sooner than any others, for testing?