Well, that’s how journalism has always functioned. People call it “clickbait” as if it’s something new, but headlines have always been designed to grab your attention and get you to read.

I think the idea is anonymous querying.

Playing both sides, eh? That sneaky devil.

No. No, it really doesn’t.

I want a vegan recipe that uses turbinado sugar. I get 3 articles and only one of them is a recipe. If I don’t like that recipe…too bad. That’s what they have.

You mean that if you convinced somebody to do something stupid…and then they did it and died…you wouldn’t feel guilty at all?

A 19-year-old doesn’t have a fully-developed brain yet.

You know, the logic that has a word like “knight” where half of the letters are silent.

Sure, blind loyalty is bad, but your characterization of Mozilla is either ignorant or disingenuous. From Wikipedia:

The Mozilla Foundation will ultimately control the activities of the Mozilla Corporation and will retain its 100 percent ownership of the new subsidiary. Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid. The Mozilla Corporation will not be floating on the stock market and it will be impossible for any company to take over or buy a stake in the subsidiary. The Mozilla Foundation will continue to own the Mozilla trademarks and other intellectual property and will license them to the Mozilla Corporation. The Foundation will also continue to govern the source code repository and control who is allowed to check in.

This doesn’t mean that enshittification can’t happen, but Mozilla Corporation clearly has different pressures than most corporations.

Thanks. Fixed.

Not versions. Distributions. They’re all developed and maintained by different organizations and are geared towards different types of users. It isn’t like Windows where your choice is Microsoft or nothing.

This means that different distributions can have a completely different UI and even approach things like installing software in very different ways. That’s why I tell people that if they install it and they don’t like it, try a different distribution. Or a different version of the same distribution. Changing your desktop environment can make a huge difference. Most distros push GNOME on their flagship version, but I’ve had a much better experience with KDE. If you don’t like the GNOME version, download and install the KDE version. If you like a Windows-style desktop, you can have that. If you prefer Mac, you can have that. Or you can do something completely different! The sky’s the limit, really.

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they are generally completely non invasive.

Does this mean that you usually always have great privacy?

I don’t think that “not fighting” is the same as doing nothing. Like I said, if somebody could truly understand this, there would be no reason to fight, not no reason to act. They would simply think and then act.

I’ve heard a kind of enlightenment described this way. Some people have claimed to attain it. It may not be possible in a pure state, but perhaps you can get close to it by degrees.

Life, joy, friends, love, art, pleasure, dopamine, oxytocin, etc.

I don’t get any of those things out of fighting the universe.

I think if somebody truly understood this, they would just quit fighting. What would be the point?

It’s a bit surreal how stupid it is. Almost a work of art.

I haven’t noticed any change since they’ve been bought up. The new owners did bust up an attempt at unionizing, though, so there’s that.

I can imagine lots of things, but I don’t confuse it with reality, because I’m an adult.

Which user interface? I have several. It depends upon which app you’re using.

It really depends upon whether it would be a red state or a blue state.