Hmm the biggest problem with it there was that a new government suddenly overturned it despite not having campaigned on the issue at all.

I don’t know if you can take lessons from such a random act.

The article seems to imply the cause was the industry lobby. But really, what could be done differently? If that was indeed the cause, it will be applied to any kind of anti-smoking measure.

Yeah Google maps is much worse than OSM in my experience.

The worst thing about this is that it completely breaks the legal system. A lawyer’s loyalty should always be with the defendant. No matter what.

They’re introducing a perverse incentive to break that loyalty.

“a true melting pot” yet one of the most xenophobic countries in the world these days. So much for open arms 😢

I know but I don’t really care whether my OS is good for normal users. In fact the more it is the less I’ll like it.

Normal users love someone taking control and all their data and telling them what’s what. A “Linux for the masses” will be inevitably pure trash, something akin to ChromeOS now (which is kinda already linux for the masses). They literally want all the things we hate. For a company to know everything about them, to take all their data, to tell them what they can do and they can’t so they feel ‘safe’.

As soon as Linux becomes a masses thing, it means lots of money can be made off it, and companies will jump on it to enshittify it as much as they can. So I’m really hoping that “the year of Linux on the desktop” will never happen.

You know you can change the hotkeys and window decorations right? That’s the great thing about KDE. You have choices.

Why ‘still’? Linux is only getting better and other options are getting worse.