I'm pretty happy with my soon-25-year-old "compact" sedan, thank you, except that it is already slightly bigger and heavier than I would have liked. But its computing ingredients are minimal, nothing annoys, nothing diverts my attention from where it needs to be: on the road, and anti-lock brakes and traction control (I also got by excellently without the latter for most of my driving career) are all I require in terms of technical features.

If I wouldn't want an electric car at some point, I wouldn't even care, as long as no one would force my to buy a car that's significantly newer than mine. At the same time, European law makes cars around here even more expensive through the sheer amount of overblown safety requirement, soon to include a camera that permanently monitors the driver, while I'm pretty sure that certain manufacturers will like this a lot and somehow overlook that other requirement that says that monitoring data including imagery has to stay in the car and to be deleted soon after it was recorded.

As of now, only VW, of all the manufacturers, even if just lately, seems to be the one manufacturer to have understood that many people still just want functionality and ergonomics, and that that is best achieved by classic buttons and levers and switches and displays reduced to what's relevant...

One shouldn't have to turn off yet another new, useless and unwanted setting or feature every couple of weeks.

It's acceptable, even if only just, with Vivaldi, where I also do get new features every couple of weeks – which, though, in 99% of cases are at least potentially useful and not just completely browser-unrelated gimmicks or even malware.

Well-known fact since Edgar the Bug.

And funny that this coincides with my starting to move my servers from Ubuntu Server to Debian. I don't want to trust a company that, on May 22, announces the shutdown of a service on May 31 that was supposed to store data for up to one year (guaranteed or not)...

Like, bread?

I call BS if that's actually what someone or something says. It's a fighting term of modern-day esoterics who make a religion out of what they eat, thereby to attack (the evil of) modern civilization (which of course is a living hell for a growing number of participants, but for other, sensible reasons), including science, or whatever.

Right. Not even 35 years old, the 3C509. I remember it like it were yesterday how we wrapped coax cable around that three-storey house with rented flats to get us four people connected. Probably need to go back to OS/2 if Linux drops support!

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.