If it was that incredible, Tesla would be handing out their raw data like candy so everyone could see how amazing their FSD systems were. Except they don't. They hide it from independent evaluation, they hide it from the NTSB, they hide it from the families they've killed. But trust us bro, it's soooooooo safe.

Did I say it had to be like GNOME? No I did not. I said most dists (i.e. mainstream dists) use GNOME. But usability is why they do. Admins maintaining dozens, hundreds of desktops do not want to waste time on bullshit support calls caused by traps and complexity in the desktop software which thinks it should shove every option under the sun in the face of users.

If KDE had proper human interface guidelines that didn't fit on a cereal packet and adopted a UX ethos & direction rather than a kitchen sink mentality then something might change. But it hasn't changed in decades so I won't be holding my breath. But if it were me dropping 1.5 million on the project that's where I'd be demanding the money be spent.

And by "literally everyone", the usage of KDE is lower than GNOME because it is not the default in any mainstream dist with the exception of openSUSE. And if you're so into KDE you should be begging for the UX to improved instead of trying to pretend the way it is now is a virtue. It sucks. It sucks even compared to Windows. Because the KDE devs play the notes without understanding the tune. This has always been the case and makes for a complex desktop that generates support calls for admins who have better things to do.

I would say that maybe if the devs followed the KDE human interface guidelines they might improve, but the KDE human interface guidelines are practically non-existent, about 7 pages that read like somebody's weekend assignment. Spend the millions writing some proper ones, and adopting it. It doesn't require KDE become GNOME, but GNOME has at least made the effort and despite your dislike, it is an slick, unsurprising, simple, forgiving and discoverable desktop.

At one point even Musk realised it. Now it's all move fast and break things. Even if those things have people inside. Because money matters than a few lives.

KDE is still a usability dog's dinner from a UX perspective. It needs to move all the advanced settings out of the day to day experience and ensure that it is forgiving and discoverable. That would pay off big time over the long term. But I'm not holding my breath because I've been saying that for decades and it never happens, so no wonder most dists use GNOME instead.

If data centers need water to cool, then it should be a closed loop. They shouldn't be continuously hooked up to the mains.

Ford was never a prestige badge but it used to be a mass market badge, In the space of a few decades their market share has dropped from 10% to around 3%. In fairness, only one of their car EVs, the Puma-E is a fossil fuel conversion and it has generally garnered good reviews and has some pretty interesting features like a massive boot. But it's still too expensive compared to the competition in the same category.

Kind of ironic that a company that at the turn of the 20th century killed off so many coachbuilder automobile competitors by pioneering machine tools, mass assembly etc. is now finding itself on the wrong side of the equation because it can't keep up with electric tech.

Ford does make other EVs in Europe but even there a couple of their models are just reskinned Volkswagens ID.5s. They have the in-house developed Puma Electric I guess which is generally considered an okay car but nobody really talks about it. And of course the Mach-E which looks cool but is too expensive and getting kind of old. And a few electric vans. That's it.

Just like with other US companies they're watching their market shrink because they're simply not investing in emergent technologies. I'm sure they'll hang on for a bit in some niches but their consumer offerings outside of the Americas look like they are in terminal decline.

Facebook has many employees in the EU. What they try in the US they'll try in Europe if they think they'll get away with it.

A union would allow Facebook workers to push back against company bullshit and back it up with industrial action. And yes unions can be useless and exist to leech off members. But in this case, it is a clear cut example of where a union is needed and it is needed NOW.

A gold sprayed phone that will chip and flake in no time, assembled from the cheapest Chinese parts, with a firmware that will doubtless be terrible and filled with spy/malware.

This is a clear cut situation where workers should unionize to push back on this bullshit.

European employees can complain about violation of their privacy from this tracking. I expect lawyers could also make a strong case that training an AI amounts to constructive dismissal and take Facebook to their country's labour relations tribunals over it.

If software can read (or write) arbitrary RAM in a machine then you've got WAY bigger problems than some plaintext passwords.

Well if they're on a spending splurge they can just purchase new hardware similar to what they're on already, install the XCP-ng (or Proxmox etc.) and migrate most of their VMs with relative ease. Or keep some or all of the hardware. I'm sure some VMs need more thought, precaution & contingency than others but for most it should be a straightforward process. But it makes no sense to jump from one horrible vendor to another if the intention is to NOT be reamed for $$$. Maybe mainframes offer some savings at scale, but also massive investment and vendor lockin.