I appreciate the effort put into this but if answering yes to “are you new to Linux?” leads to the follow up question “apt or rpm?” then there’s a problem.

I tend to think that any conclusion that could be reasonably summarized as “I (or a group I belong to) am smart and everyone else is stupid” is not an opinion rooted in objectivity and is therefore very likely to be heavily biased.

Yeah paid software babies users, often to the point of being annoying. FOSS assumes you can troubleshoot complex issues effectively. There’s a happy medium somewhere in there but like you said, it’s tough to get there with a limited volunteer dev team.

In my experience most of them are pretty easy to set up with basic computer skills and a look at the documentation. There are two big problems with that though.

1. Basic computer skills aren’t as common as you would think.

2. FOSS documentation isn’t written for people without those skills.

That leads to a lot of issues that aren’t terribly complicated to solve but would be showstoppers for regular users. I would not consider myself a high level user but I’ve managed to get quite a few applications up and running with nothing but time and a willingness to be frustrated. The few people I’ve gone into details with about those applications had no clue what I was talking about. Mostly because they would never tolerate the frustration required to get past the initial setup and have therefore never learned how to do any of it.

lmao that will clearly never happen

The legislative branch ceding power to the executive branch is already unconstitutional. The biggest problem with Trump is not that the terrible things he does are legal, it’s that no one is willing to enforce the law and stop him. Without a way to enforce them the words written on dusty pieces of paper are completely irrelevant.

Many times there aren’t reasonable solutions to unreasonable situations. You pick from the options you have.

Not the bezos brand of business

If you smoke it you’re an addict, if you take it in a pill you’re an upstanding citizen.

If you’re expecting the American people to see nuanced healthcare policy behind this then I’m not sure what to tell you. You should know by now that we don’t do that.

I bet this is exactly the kind of thing German citizens were saying to each other in the 30s.

Sometimes they do it because the emails are legitimate and annoying. Or maybe they just want to pretend they didn’t see it. You know how I know that :)

What if you’re on Family Feud and the category is “things not to do when you meet your new girlfriend’s family”?

That’s true. Most abusers don’t have millions of people who make excuses for their shitty behavior.

The funny thing is, if I happened to have made this comparison in reference to the US, Russia, China, or Israel I bet you would be reacting pretty differently right now.

Ok

I don’t know enough about the situation to have a real opinion on the matter. All I’m saying is that what I’m hearing as the justification for Denmark keeping control of Greenland sounds just like the logic that many kinds of abusers use to justify their controlling behavior. It’s theoretically possible that it’s 100% true in this case but my previous experience with that kind of language says that is unlikely.

“She can leave anytime she wants but she knows what will happen if she does”

Real abusive husband vibes there. Obviously the US should not attempt to take over any part of Greenland but the argument you’re making sounds more like a hostage situation than anything else.

Larry Ellison doesn’t think so and that’s what makes it fun to put on him

You say that like Reagan had some grand economic plan. He was an idiotic actor very similar to Trump. It’s true that tons of terrible policies can be traced back to his presidency but he wasn’t the mastermind of much of it in the same way that Trump doesn’t have a coherent plan now. They are both good examples of dumb, self serving outsiders being given too much power and listening to the wrong people.