The USA was already planning a coup in Italy in 1964 in case the people would have elected a left wing party.

I've noticed in a British channel dedicated to public transport that "tube" (UK English for underground train) was consistently being transcribed as "Jew". With borderline libellous results such as "can you beat the Jew?"

Lenovo and HP have an exclusive contract with French public institutions to provide desktop and laptop computers, it is a contract valued in the hundred of millions of euros. Still, the option to have Windows 11 pro preinstalled is charged around 100 euros.

Yes, Collabora is one of the largests (they say THE largests) upstream contributors of LibreOffice

There is already modern euro-centric rework of LibreOffice, it is Collabora. It used to be just a rebranded fork of LibreOffice, but it then evolved in an online suite, which integrates with Nextcloud. And most recently, a completely new interface, based on LibreOffice but (if I understand correctly) written in python and with all the java legacy code stripped off. The first public version was only released a couple of months ago, it is still a bit unstable and missing some features, but completely usable.

I'm pretty sure you cannot copyright an UI interface design, except for the graphics on the buttons. However, they may have had some specific patent on the ribbon design.

Every time I see my mother in law, she's a list of " I don't know what fo do" problems with her phone. The solution is always the same: I read out loud what is written on the screen, then I ask her if she want it or not, and I click yes or no accordingly.

The OS has your birthday, but it only reports minor/major when a web services asks. This is better, because when a minor becomes a major, he can keep his device without having to ask parents to unlock it .

It works like this in Android Family Link.

As a parent and a system administrator myself, I think it is brilliant actually. You need age verification somewhere. Having it in the website is bad, because you force people to send their id around. At the DNS level is verg unreliable. Being able to simply set a flag for non-admin accounts and expect legit websites to respect it, makes the DNS solution much more reliable, and removes the need to send your ID and picture around. If it is a tool for parents, it is good.

It becomes bad if the OS is required to DO the age verification, via some DRM-like service that handles your ID and personal data.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

You can be totally scammed with apps downloaded from Google Play store.

There definitely is solvent involved in the ifixed.it instructions for a MacBook pro. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/M...

Easier than other MacBooks does not mean easy in general. Removing the battery of a MacBook Pro is a 72 steps operation on fixed.it, including the application of solvent that can damage the screen. For a typical Dell laptop it is: remove the panel, unplug the old battery, plug the new battery, reattach the panel.

There was a massive change in internal policy between communist Russia and fascist Russia with a wave of privatization between 1992 and 1995 and the creation of 12'000 enterprises. A large fraction of the privatized wealth was captured by corrupted politicians and organized crime leading to oligarchy.

It means that Google services have to ask permission to access files, location and everything else. On standard Android, Google gets access to everything by default.