In the moment the Nextcloud people forked it, the fork has become European software.

What? Taxonomy is science, not religion. Religion has nothing to do with this. Homo sapiens is a species in just the same way as cat and dog are species.

Except that LMDE and Debian, compared to LM and Ubuntu, lock out a massive pool of application sources many people rely on, namely PPAs and other non-Debian-compatible apt repositories.

And that would be bad why?

Because any Mint user used to getting significant amounts of stuff from PPAs and other non-Debian-compatible apt repositories will be effed as soon as they're forced to move to LMDE.

It's not so easy. If major Linux Mint versions will now come eight months later even than their underlying Ubuntu LTS which already is slow, then that will become a problem for quite some users and thereby for Mint itself. And they wouldn't be doing that if their resources weren't too limited for keeping up the previous cadence which at least was acceptable. It isn't that far-fetched at all to use the word 'trouble' in this context.

The Mint distribution based on Debian (LMDE) is not made for productive use (despite being good enough) and the Mint team does not recommend it for that. It has been created to explore the possibility of a Debian-based Mint replacing Ubuntu-based Mint in the eventuality of Ubuntu stopping to be a viable base.

You don't seem to see how fragile all of this is. Debian is not invulnerable. Just because "half of Linux", most of which has no abundance on volunteer workforce, either, relies on Debian, that doesn't mean Debian couldn't die anytime soon. And the least bad outcome, if it actually did, probably would be a commercial takeover by one or more of the corporate entities that rely on Debian or derivatives of it, a takeover which would have to be crafted very carefully to not become as bad as it sounds, to not completely change what Debian has been so far.

As to your last sentence, I would mostly agree, but maybe say they did not properly forecast the level of work Canonical Corp. would impose on them by things they forced upon Ubuntu.

We are evolving. Fast. It’s so cute to listen to people who think we’ve somehow separated ourselves from our animal nature or the effects of evolution.

From what I've seen, most arguments against the assumption that evolution is still a thing in the human species tend to come from the anti-societal and anti-social fallacy assuming human societies and social systems protecting somehow disadvantaged individuals which would die early "in the wild" had stopped "natural selection".

I agree with much of what you write, but what is "animal nature" even supposed to mean? And, "humans are a subspecies of great ape" – well, obviously, except homo sapiens is a species, not a subspecies, but what do you want to suggest that would imply? That one species could not differ hugely from other species of the same family? That would be wrong, too.

No such problems after two years with the Honor Magic V2. It's prone to develop bright spots on the big display though, if something pointy touches it too forcibly anywhere, which does not need that much force at all. More recent Honor folders may be somewhat improved there.

... that was oil, not blood.

Stack Overflow and its siblings were and still are authoritarian top-down solutions to steering a community of knowledgeable people instead of letting the community mostly self-organize and evolve. Even the idea of having to earn the right to do anything at all beside reading was, right from the beginning, misguided, no matter how real the problem is they wanted to address with it. I, for one, never bothered to spin their hamster wheel.

And if there is something that really, never, ever, will help when that is one of the core problems (and of it isn't even the only one), it is a "new vision" consisting of "redesign" and "new features".

I wonder why that got downvoted. In its core, it is not wrong. It's just not completely true, either, and as someone who's already had depressive episodes which kept me unable to work for weeks or even months, I wouldn't agree to the suggestion that we should refrain from administering antidepressants...

Then we all know exactly what it looked like!

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Like the "slight decrease in the percentage of U.S. adults who read any book in 2022 (49%) compared to 2012 (55%)", which is a decline of more than 10% in 10 years? I wouldn't call that a "slight" decrease in any meaning of the word.

Also, as others already noted, when reading 11 books per year is supposed to constitute a "mega-reader" then this very much looks like someone purposefully belittling the problem.

'Ultra-processed food' per se says nothing at all about whether it's healthy or not. If studies come to the conclusion that ultra-processed food is more likely to be unhealthy than to be healthy, it's because, statistically, ultra-processed food tends to contain less healthy and more unhealthy ingredients, which very probably is indeed the case, but not because it was 'processed'. 'Ultra-processed' as a category to be blamed for unhealthiness is not scientific, on the contrary it supports esoteric and superstitious beliefs.