Yeah, that’s true. And I’m certainly not doing so. It was just a desperate plea for change, which of course I knew wouldn’t happen.

Mainly I just wanted to keep the rating low.

Ah, it’s new to me, but I’m not surprised.

Really just means that ratings are worthless.

No, because it would curdle, so it’s more eat than drink

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That cancer support line should buy this one also

So… A single point of failure?

Yeah, before reading the article I did wonder if they bought the number in hundreds of different area codes.

I think most people now live in areas where you can’t even connect by dialing only 7 digits.

Exactly that. Drivers don’t generally have much UI (I guess module load parameters count) so getting it working is most of the job.

It’s the user facing applications which sometimes feel a bit unpolished. That has definitely improved over the years though.

This is more about open source in general than Linux specifically, but anyway.

Minor details.

I get the impression that often the developers are passionate about getting things working, but once it works it’s hard to keep going to fix ‘papercuts’: minor UI issues, documentation, small usability improvements, consistency, etc. They want to move on to the next big feature.

Of course commercial products can suffer from the same, but if large enough they may have a program manager who assigns people to specific areas like that which get less coverage when it’s based on the devs’ desire to work on them.

It’s maintained by my hardware OEM (Tuxedo) and I’m not even sure it has Universe - most things are flatpaks.

Strong agree. I use a derivative that blocks snaps instead of direct Kubuntu now, and it wasn’t Just because of the snaps.

Seems in that place a Fedora is worn on the chest instead of head.

OP wasn’t sure it was (and therefore wasn’t sure this was a valid post here)

That’s a good point, and I considered mentioning it, but I mean the overall setting.

Well, he died, so either that is justice or he never got it and never will.

In the source of the image, he is in fact a federal government official.

I used to believe that movie wasn’t realistic.

You’re welcome… But it doesn’t appear to be zoomable? At least not in Firefox on Android

I don’t get it.

I’m pretty sure in my case it’s either genetic or the result of actual damage to my olfactory nerves.