Please take them, they are awful.

Truly shocking that the all-in pivot to GAAS would end up spectacularly failing, surely no one saw this coming.

At least Jim Ryan is gone now.

There is a indirect cost to superficially placating him as well, since you’re helping him build the image of himself winning every negotiation, but yes, I agree this is also a valid option.

Unless there is some truly apocalyptic behind the scenes geopolitics realignment on the table here, we must cut them off. Call their bluff. Europe must have the courage to say that enough is enough. Yeah, short term we might have some price turmoil (again), but we can’t live like this.

Distro - System level stuff. A “type” of linux. Mint, Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu etc.

DE (Desktop environment) - Surface level stuff, i.e. how it looks, behaves, and often what default apps you use for basic stuff like text editing. Gnome, KDE, etc.

Distros have a default DE but often provide different versions using others for people who prefer them.

You likely won’t need to interact with any of that other stuff except flatpaks. Just think of it as a form of distributing and running software.

Actually great news! Really like the feature and was consistently annoyed when you had to fall back to Google for those languages.

The US is really rocketing toward hard fascism at a rate that makes the gains of the nationalist parties in Europe look pretty tame by comparison.

What the fuck is even going on here, this doesn’t even align with their own weird agenda? This just seems psychotic for it’s own sake.

Oh yeah, definitely this. The economics will probably never allow it to be deployed at a scale where it will make any sort of difference.

Instead, it is used as an excuse to not take any action on climate change which is actually realistic, albeit hard.

Jesus christ

Yup.

Sure, the long term productivity and quality takes a nosedive, but the shareholders don’t care about that as long as the numbers for the next quarter look better.

Nicely put.