The answer is obviously codifying the position of power that violence granted you in a set of laws, hoping they won't be challenged by further violence

Not to take away from Zuckerberg, Musk, and the less-known people in tech like Thiel, but Bill Gates was and is a huge piece of shit who harmed more than just his competitors. Among other things he convinced the world that we need IP and patents for covid vaccines instead of sharing them freely, which alone cost countless lives around the world. I don't even want to know what other ills his "philanthropy" has and will cause. https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines

Default Firefox is becoming more and more unusable. I hope distros will start switching to something like Librewolf as the default browser in the future or heavily (and visibly) change the default Firefox config themselves.

I'm not sure if that helps you, but there are plenty of search focused launchers for android that let you add keywords as tags to apps as well like KISS Launcher and Kvaesitso

Another point for KDE might be that it works much better on a small screen that may be partially obscured by an overlaid keyboard. I used Bazzite Gnome for a while on the Steam Deck and I much preferred Plasma on there after switching back, despite using Gnome on my main system.

It is rare that you would want to run an entire GUI program as root, and if it is needed, the program should prompt you for it. Do you have a specific use case where you need to do that regularly?

I recommend just using the flatpak

So they want more control over what people are able to install

I love the gorilla warfare bit 🦍

It also seems very American to me that there is not a single mention of climate change in there

If there's any decent alternative to Google Cast, I'd love to know because I've never found one. You can use Kodi to receive links to Youtube videos and play them, and spotify hast their own built-in casting, but for everything else I've got nothing.

Sure, here's an ASCII art of a snake:

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