It is because most people were brainwashed into voting against their own best interest.

I don’t know if there was a big shift. Let’s look at the data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/454775/number-of-illegal-entries-between-bcps-to-the-eu/

The reaction to 2015 wave of immigrants was mixed. While some less affected countries were trying to welcome them most were directly opposing any EU-wide migration policies, building walls and refugee camps. After that the issue got more attention and as the number of illegal border coring increased countries started rolling out stricter enforcement.

EU never had the sort of “open border” policy US had where it would rely on illegal migrants to do low paid jobs. It was relying more on legal migration from ex colonies (Africa for France, South America and Morocco for Spain, South Asia for UK) or guest worker programs (Turkey-Germany) to bring in work force. The illegal border crossing were generally seen as an issue. I don’t think the perspective changed as much as the reaction is getting stronger in response to changing trends and in preparation for future migrations waves.

5 years ago I would default to Mint because of how pain free the installation and setup process was. It would magically fix all the sound/sleep/firmware etc. issues other distros had.

Now Debian has caught up to it IMHO. Yes, you still have to add some non-free repos or firmware packages but it’s really easy and after that it’s mostly smooth sailing. The stability and simplicity of Debian is hard to beat. I’ve spent years on testing version and never had a single issue with an upgrade. It’s rock solid.

There are aliens on Grindr?

Everything just works out of the box. It’s a pretty massive difference from the world of Vim, where a significant investment to figure out how to customize your editor to your liking is required.

Ok, so the issue I have with this is that “customizing” is not the same as “making it work”. Very often I will have a working environment and I will still spend 30 minutes looking for a color theme that I like. Two completely different things. The benefit of investing significant amount of time to configure something is that while you’re figuring out how to make something work you’re also making it work exactly the way you like it.

That being said, neovim is really hard to configure correctly. I had some many weird issues with LSP recently that I’m definitely open to trying something new like Helix.

Yeah, it’s really hard to find WiFi 6 hardware with reliable Linux support (brostrend.com has good support). It used to be that things like sport watches required apps to configure and only Windows was supported but nowadays most will be configurable using Android. Most common hardware (cameras, card readers, external drives) use USB now so it’s hard to find something without support.

[citation needed]

How many meters is that?

Nice trolling, dude.

This is why people don’t have kids anymore.

Yaaaaay!

Said no one.

Put laxatives in your milk.

My story exactly. Company still has summer parties but they cut a lot of benefits, started firing people and the level of gaslighting went up dramatically. I was looking for something else but fortunately stayed long enough to get fired and cash out. Found new job in 1.5 months. I’m almost grateful to them for being such assholes.

GTFO. They are saying that regular donations are so much better that they prefer them even if they will receive less money. Isn’t that obvious? If you have $4k in the bank account today you can in theory hire a permanent dev but you don’t know if you will be able to pay him next month. If you have $3k per month in regular donations you know that you will be able to pay someone as long as people don’t cancel those. Which will take some time. Which gives you the stability needed to hire people.

Phrasing this as “gnome has too much money” is malicious.

You should be hiding in a secret annex until the Nazis are out of power, not calling them yourself.

What if he just want some of the sweet, sweet VC money but realizes this will never actually happen?

Business idea: renting personalized, up to date, AI curated social media accounts with puppies and American flags only.

With Linux I’m so used to having all the control nothing really feels like magic. My entire desktop environment is controlled by set of custom lua scripts. Every detail looks and works exactly the way I set it up to. But it’s not magic, it’s just Linux.

Because everyone else is on WhatsApp. I moved most of my friends to Signal but I’m in some clubs that use WhatsApp groups to communicate. Yes, I could leave but then I wouldn’t know about many activities.

I like your optimism.