I mean, it's possible...

In that Paramount Skydance is a heavily leveraged company whose debt rating is in junk territory, with a debt-to-EBITDA ratio of 4-5x, and we're entering a period of monetary tightening, while it has been loading itself up with "traditional media" forms in a time of shifting viewership trends. Aka, if Paramount Skydance ends up going bankrupt and its assets get sold off...

Then, and only then, might it lead to better outcomes for the consumer. Barring that? No.

All true, but it's all doomed anyway. AI is going to do it in from both ends. Up front it's going to take the jobs, and in the back it's going to take away the jobs and therefore the disposable income from the people who would see the films. This is just hurrying things up a little bit. California Uber Alles! We're just as greedy here as people are anywhere else.

I used to be a window manager slut so I didn't get used to continuity of desktops until KDE got good. I still have to use Windows at work, but at home my laptop and desktop and minipc all run Devuan with KDE. It doesn't change much visually version to version any more.

This probably comes from the broad variety of different computers I used, but even on some of those there were other visual tweaks. On classic mac there was Copland. On Amiga there was Newlook. I tried them all habitually.

I use the NeXTStep-style launcher in KDE, which is ironically objectively superior to Apple's dock, and is actually what they had before they fucked it up to make eye candy for idiots

If you use complex applications you already have most of a DE installed on your system. If you don't use a file manager but do use a session manager then you've still got most of a DE running in your session. All you're accomplishing is using a less featured launcher, which is fine but really not a big difference.

You can run Cinnamon if you miss GNOME 2, but when I tried it, it just felt old :)

Yes, every news outlet. All of them. Some were nicer about it than others but all were asking questions about his ability. IDGAF about entertainment programs like The View though, if you have to bring that up to try to support the point then you've already failed. It's not a news program.

That's profoundly selfish. Shock amazement

Nothing in Israel is viable without American money, so no.

Man fuck history, this is now! I don't give two fucks what Russian peasants did in 1432, I care about what is possible today. And today something better is possible if we stop letting the billionaires convince us all that our neighbor who's just as fucked as we are is stealing all the money!

KDE is pretty good. There's nothing really worth complaining about in the design and most of the major long running bugs have been stomped. If I did have a design complaint it would be related to the settings app, but even it is pretty ok.

GNOME 2 was definitely better than the KDE of its day.

GNOME 3 OTOH...

Would there? How many people even know about e.g. Five Eyes? There already is mass coordinated international surveillance and... crickets.

More evidence has been presented publicly that Trump fucked kids than was necessary to convict Cosby or Weinstein. There are more accusers, too. You are willfully and deliberately working to attempt to conceal this fact. You are working to protect child rape. Someone should check your hard disk.

We will let the government give them something "useful" to do once the pedos get us into a war.