This should also be an incentive for the government/politicians to create lots of well paid jobs to maximize the number of people managing to pay up the loans, right?

And it happened to the romans too...

Sorry, but one of the first stats we learned from the pandemic, was that quantity did matter; more exposure, higher number of viruses lead to more severe symptoms. Don't think this has been refuted.

My father-in-law is 92yrs old now and using Linux Mint Cinnamon as his daily environment. For a long time I maintained Win2000 up to Win8 for him; as a former exec, he was totally dependent on Outlook, which was the only serious barrier from using Linux. Other software was much less of a hassle. Anyway, the Windows he was used to in his work has nothing in common with the platform called Windows today. So when the Lightning calendar got integrated (and stabilized) in Thunderbird, we migrated to TBird on Mint. Firefox, Libreoffice, etc. were much easier to handle.

"example I just looked up Inkscape ubuntu repo,tells me every other package available but fucking inkscape" First hit in your search is the main Inkscape package?

Agree with your arguments - but unfortunately I've seen that there's another narrative:

"Here is an explanation of the situation. TDF has as a member of its Advisory Board another organisation, FSF. That organisation had an incident two years ago that led to the resignation of its former leader from the board of directors. TDF fully expected FSF to correct the portions of its governance rules that had allowed the situation to arise, and modernise its processes so that the problem could not arise again. On that basis, TDF allowed FSF to remain an Advisory Board member. In the last week, FSF unexpectedly demonstrated that it had not in fact corrected its procedures in any way. That has led TDF to suspend FSF's membership of the Advisory Board temporarily until TDF can be sure FSF has in fact put in place governance rules that will ensure it has the authority to advose TDF on future matters. None of this is a political matter, or an activism matter, regardless of whether people attempt to project their issues and preferences onto it. When people do so, you can be sure they have not properly understood the matter." - Simon Phipps

So, I'm tempted to think it boils down to RMS announcing his return without consulting anyone, not even the FSF. Unfortunately the reactions to such non-transparent and/or dubious governance are riding on the back of a wild discrediting campaign.

It did move your butt - just a bit. This geological event (seismic activity + eruption) moved apart the American and Eurasian tectonic plates, ~20cm in the exact area, much less globally, but still some.

... but wiener sausages. I have just in front of me a picture of my father-in-law picnicking with his youngsters besides a smoking hot lava stream in 1976, near Krafla in NE-Iceland. They're all BBQ-ing wieners, guess you'd call it Hot Dogs. Later that summer it was hot enough for scrambled eggs. Retrospectively, perhaps not the ideal environment for a family picnick...

More than 9/11 every day...

Wow, interesting deduction here. As a mere spectator on US politics, I can't recall having ever seen any politician saying that the options were EITHER private OR public insurance; one doesn't exclude the other as the example from Germany show clearly. How on earth did you come to your conclusion?

There used to be a server out there (kcore.org) which had a modified "Error 404 - Page not found" based on Marvin. As everyone should know, Marvin was designed by a committee, thus his prototype version of the Genuine People Personality was an average cocktail of depression/boredom/frustration/etc.:

[in a scrolling textarea:]

• The requested document is totally fake.
• No "/nosuchfile" here.',
• Even tried multi.
• Nothing helped.
• I'm really depressed about this.
• You see, I'm just a web server...
• -- here I am, brain the size of the universe,
• trying to serve you a simple web page,
• and then it doesn't even exist!
• Where does that leave me?!
• I mean, I don't even know you.
• How should I know what you wanted from me?
• You honestly think I can *guess*
• what someone I don't even *know*
• wants to find here?
• *sigh*
• Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry.
• And then where would we be, I ask you?
• It's not pretty when a web server cries.
• And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?
• Just because I'm a web server,
• and possibly a manic depressive one at that?
• Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?
• Huh?
• I'm so depressed...
• I think I'll crawl off into the trash can and decompose.
• I mean, I'm gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway?
• What kind of a life is that?
• Two effing weeks,
• and then I'll be replaced by a .01 release,
• that thinks it's God's gift to web servers,
• just because it doesn't have some tiddly little
• security hole with its HTTP POST implementation, or something.
• I'm really sorry to burden you with all this,
• I mean, it's not your job to listen to my problems,
• and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you.
• But I couldn't get this one.
• I'm so sorry.
• Believe me!
• Maybe I could interest you in another page?
• There are a lot out there that are pretty neat, they say,
• although none of them were put on *my* server, of course.
• Figures, huh?
• Everything here is just mind-numbingly stupid.
• That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them,
• all day and all night long.
• Two weeks of information overload,
• and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash.
• What kind of a life is that?
• Now, please let me sulk alone.
• I'm so depressed.

"boeing is trying desperately to spend as little money as they can to make as much money as they can" Open-source the software. Cheap, transparent and minimum effort. Eyeballs folks, eyeballs...

I've had one XCover 3 VE for five years; often referred to as my "secondary hammer" - I still see them a lot on construction sites, along the similar CAT-versions. It has survived its share of falling/splashing/dusting and sparks, but still quite usable. The screen is even without any serious scratches or dents. Unfortunately development of a decent ROM for these (that is the "VE" or "Value Edition" version) never really took off, so I can only root it but not load any Google-free OS on the phone.

Because OSMAnd [https://osmand.net/] does the job.

Have you tried the OpenStreetMap client OSMAnd (https://osmand.net/)? Customizable as you see fit, bunch of extensions, off-line maps and no surveillance by big data brokers (unless you really want). Available for iOS and Android in the respective stores, plus in Amazon and F-Droid. Been using it all over Europe in various modes (driving, boat, bike and skiing) and I'm quite happy with it.