Prove this. What evidence? Which laws? What actions make this espionage?

I disagree with everything you said. The statement you made about no one caring is completely false. At least half the population cares, maybe more. Because the house and senate are controlled by the interested party (dems) there has been no action taken. Now we are learning from whistleblowers that the FBI was forcing agents to stand down on the investigations of Hunter's laptop. This reveals a great deal of information that proves Hunter and Joe and others in his family should be held to account with a trial and if/when found guilty should suffer jail time/punishment.

To even imply that there is nothing here is to be willfully ignorant and intentionally manipulate of the very things you claim in the first part of your post.

How about all the calls to execute Trump and his family for treason? Some called for even Baron to be executed. This went on for months and months on social media. I recall bannings on places like Reddit if you disputed these calls. Reddit allowed forum moderators to ban voices from important forums because they dissented. I saw this happen. I saw it widely on Twitter too, and on FB. I literally saw vicious threats against people and the president over unproven claims. I saw people be doxxed and cancelled because they wanted more information and challenged the accusations of democrat politicians and those supporting them on social media.

Where were those in this thread back then? What did they do to calm and explain the contentions?

This is misinformation.

This anonymous coward is claiming all right leaning citizens are unbalanced and that all the left are balanced. Since the right in this case was true and accurate and the left were the ones that were interfering, there is no way this anonymous coward's allegation can be true...and he knows it...which makes his claim even disinformation.

It wasn't horse shit.

The government had the laptop drive and others for some time before the election. They still have those drives. We know the information on them is not Russian disinformation. They also had other evidence and other individuals willing to provide testimony about the validity of the information on the drive -- before the election.

Bear in mind that most emails have a recipient so you can verify the information by simply checking with the recipient. Also, modern email systems have things such as DKIM. This is effectively a signing of the email by the server to provide proof that the email came from that server. Other tools provide measures to keep others from faking emails such as spf and dmark. On top of that they can look at the servers to check that emails are stored there...on both the sender and recipient machines. Multiple recipients means more than 2 servers have copies.

Now we have multiple whistleblowers in the FBI claiming they were told to stand down on the investigation of Hunter Biden.

Besides Zuckerberg had no evidence that the laptop was mis/disinformation before deciding to interfere with the election.

The issue is that he acted as an agent of the government. He censored something extremely important (at their behest) that the voting public needed to hear about.

Think about it... the government decided what you were entitled to hear.

When government and business collude that's fascism. To interfere with the public for political gain/control that is fascism.

This makes Zuckerberg's action the action of the government.

Yesterday's update broke my add-apt-repository program. Now I can't install firefox from ppa. I dont use snaps, period. I never will. This broke my system. They did not create a solid upgrade.

The only distinguishing featured of the Apple iPhone is the OS, which Samsung can't copy and reproduce. Google decides the features and future of Android.

The other benefit of Apple is hardware. Apple has better battery life. In my opinion little else. Maybe the APU. That's neither here nor there, as most use specific known suppliers.

It has a walled garden. Android doesn't have that. Thank goodness for that.

If they can increase their screen size and work to improve their battery lfe they've literally been competing.

If they clean it up, maybe.

The issues with getting prompt email notifications are too much for me.

The fact that you have to change so many settings that are unclear as to what they mean and where they are located is another deal breaker.

If I say I want immediate notifications I shouldn't have to consider if it is Android 5 or android 11. It should work immediately without tweaking. I shouldn't have to do an thing except get mail, seriously.

I lost a big post here to a bug in the slashdot code. My finger accidentally touched a page element and slashdot didnt ask me to leave or stay.

A less precise shorter version below:

I'm a Linux user through and through and have been using it for over 15 years and you can keep me from it when you can pry it from my cold dead hands...I'm a command line guy from way back and spend a lot of time in the magic of the terminal.

Just note that even Apple doesn't have more than a blip's worth of desktop market share and they have a market valuation greater than Microsoft. They made no strides into the market even though Microsoft was convicted of being a predatory monopolist. Linux won't break out likely ever due to so many factors holding it back, the least of which is the standardization that allows business and government to have one great big place to do their business of tracking people. Too many oses, social media platforms, chat clients, encryption technologies, and operating systems makes doing their job of tracking much harder and more expensive.

Immutable file systems driven from systemd coupled with flatpacks, app images and snaps keeps us from the diversity and control that users come to Linux to experience. It also begins to centralize control of the ecosystem that could possibly then be purchased by a big wealthy entity that would then be able to dictate terms and the direction to all linux distributions.

However the existing issues with Linux are something else, as the vision of immutable file systems is not a reality yet.

The fact is Linux is messy under the hood. Seemingly related commands are inconsistent in use. Some are excessively complex. I give you the screen command as an example. Type man screen. Then hit page down once every second till you get to the bottom. It will take a long time. That info is extremely complicated for users.

Most Linux commands have grown to have lots of options. It is too much for a user to remember everything. You almost have to dedicate your life to it. Some of these programs are also interdependent. Combined with everything else, with almost every one having an exception to every rule, two or three ways to do something, to where we endlessly pick through Google search trying countless options to fix a problem. That is sometimes just too much even for seasoned users.

The language we use to communicate to users in man pages, in posts on forums, in websites, and even in YouTube videos is far too foreign a lot of the time to be of any real help to users. It takes years even for the learned in computing to grasp Linux as a whole. Linux jumps to new technologies all the time. Everyone is rushing there all the time and an average user can't keep up let alone understand a thing.

I think to myself sometimes as I listen to podcasts driving to and from work that if I had my girlfriend with me she would not understand a damn thing Popey just said. Not a damn thing. I realize that there is no way to conceptually relate to her what is being said because there are too many related prerequisite areas of knowledge to give an easy explanation, and I spent decades teaching people how to use computers on the job.

With as far as this unelected official is going we need a 2nd party to fend off bad ideas. Since these people now have what seems like total control of this important aspect of Linux it would seem there's an imperative to find and implement an alternative to systemd. Lenert does seem to be a politician trying to dictate the future of most Linux distributions. This is a devastating prospect.

Agreed.

He's right.

It is an unnecessary change that will confuse Linux raison d'etre for future generations of users. Linux is about freedom from control. Freedom from manipulation of what we do with our computers. If someone wants an immutable OS they should do it themselves individually, and/or immutable distributions should be very rare and never promoted as a Linux OS/solution.

Unproductive.