Just yesterday was a high school teacher telling me that teenagers are lost when they need to use a mouse. Because all they know is a touchscreen on the smartphone or tablet. They have problem doing a double-click. Understanding when to do a click and when to do a double-click. Etc. So it seem that year of the desktop is moot when there is going to be no desktop in the future.

To be clear: I'm a linux user, proficient in windows and, compared to my social bubble, a commandline wizard. I just said above that if you think that Windows desktop is somehow future-safe, you are mistaken.

...to stamp out absolutely everything that you think is bad...

Don't let the perfect be an enemy of good.

A few years back I was pissed when I learned that TPMS sensors on my car had to be replaced because the potted batteries inside died. Because of a battery worth 1-2€ I had to replace a sensor worth 40€. For each wheel. I even e-mailed my MEPs ;-). I wonder whether the new legislation applies to this?

Just Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

It would be Google requesting a copy and the website sending a copy of their data. This presumably comes with the right to process the data ...

That's quite a jump.

I would assume that this includes gmail foremost. Because the mailbox connects the identity to interests much better then anything else. I also assume that the permission to mine the mailbox is buried somewhere in ToS.

I investigated when my bank discontinued contact-only cards and switched to contactless cards only. It is possible to set the limit for contactless transactions to zero, but it is not possible to turn off the contectless functionality completely. My understanding is that the conctacless terminal will refuse the transaction if the amount is above zero, but it will still talk to the card and perhaps get some identification data - which I wanted to prevent in first place. At best you can try to puncture the card at the right place and break the antenna wires.

... the opposite of what the security experts have screamed for the last 30 years.

Not really:

"And when people say don't write your password down. Nonsense. Write it down on a little piece of paper and keep it with all the other small bits of paper you value - in your wallet."

Bruce Schneier - 2010

Microsoft's Jesper Johansson urged people to write down their passwords.

This is good advice, and I've been saying it for years.

Bruce Schneier - 2005

In late '90-ies I worked for a company developing CAD system for textile industry (autocad is not the only CAD in the universe). The software was running on HP-UX and used X11 and "Starbase". (Funny that Google does not really give much useful links for "starbase".) Then the company noticed that everyone is moving to windows. Guess what? They bought a NutCracker SDK and got the software running on windows. Two decades later they are so much on windows, that the software does does not run on anything that is not MS Windows. (Probably not even wine.) Most of the non-GUI stuff could. But anything with GUI is hopelessly windows only. Because the powers that be do not see the point. Yet.

The only thing more annoying than a computer is a computer that tries to be helpful.

I'm confused. Obviously there can be only one action assigned to the event of double-clicking the window titlebar. If you want to use Shade, there is plenty of other events to which Shade can be assigned. You can also add additional buttons (including button Shade) to the titlebar in System Settings->Appearance->Window Decorations->tab Titlebar buttons.

I did not upgrade yet and I have:

System Settings -> section Workspace -> Window Management -> tab Titlebar actions->Double click-> combobox value Maximize

Is the configuration no longer there? Or is it reset to something else? Or it does not work?

Distribution maintainers is a group that may be distinct from the group of administrators. What if the later group's opinions were not taken into account?