Well, it’s not “for the masses”, it’s “for the government”, right? My assumption is that if there are good solutions or upgrades implemented in the OS, the OSS community will be able to extract the good bits without also pulling the “bad” bits.

Oh, mate, come on… If it’s for employees, privacy is irrelevant. If they do this in any semi-competent way, they will want proper management tools to come with the OS - a way to monitor and protect (from “both ends”) included.

By “both ends” I mean data extraction both by a malicious party outside and inside the government. It’s bog standard enterprise approach to have what’s called “DLP”, or “Data Loss Prevention”, policies (and software solutions) in place.

If it’s Linux, presumably, it will be open source. Meaning, presumably, any anti-privacy code will be easily identified.

Only if you ignore all the other benefits, yes.

An excellent specimen!

Maybe “largest” was the wrong word, should’ve used “richest”, I guess.

Mate, free access to the market itself is worth it. And then you get being part of a single massive market as a bonus. As far as contributions go: it all depends on the state of your economy. Here’s a neat little table:

Picked the countries at random. So, sure, Canada might end up paying more than it receives, but even that sometimes is a good thing overall - strong economies that trade with you mean also more money coming to your budget. And receiving grants for one specific thing often help realise that specific thing, when trying to finance it from your own budget would be impossible because “there are always more important things”. For example: the entire military industry is now being boosted by the EU money, even in countries such as Germany and France.

Where I agree with you is that a larger analysis would be necessary. One of the pain points I can see is that being in the EU means open borders between EU countries, but pretty strict border control on the “EU borders”. That would mean Canada would have to fortify the Canada-US border, which is physically impossible.

Enjoy the ride! :)

Oh! You might find this useful. It’s a list of various setting changes/fixes I made after switching and encountering various issues, or annoyances. Some of these were under Kubuntu, most are under Garuda, but I don’t think anything in there is distro-specific, so it should work on both Debian-based and Arch-based.

Hmm… Pray tell, what exactly in my comment suggested, in your opinion, that the grants are “free money”?

You can’t be this silly.

You get free, unrestricted access to the largest trade market (in terms of GDP per capita), not to mention access to billions upon billions of euros in grants.

That’s the one thing the US military industrial complex has over the EU equivalent - we now have three completely separate 6th gen jet projects, all of them stalling because countries can’t decide who’s going to be the “primary” developer.

Got myself a Tuxedo Aura 14 which I’m enjoying.

Also, kinda, just bought four vinyls of Wardruna (Norwegian band) from a Swedish store.

not one of them actually indicates what benefit Canada would get from joining the EU

Do you just fundamentally not understand what the EU is, or are you looking for some specific details?

Hmm… Fair enough, I wouldn’t know because I have history turned off so I don’t get a Home feed, I only use the Subscriptions view. That being said - wasn’t the Home feed always supposed to be mostly for discovery?

Unless you’re a literal basement dweller, you’re processing this much social protocol every single day of your conscious life.

If you’ve never installed Linux before, I would start with something user-friendly, like Kubuntu or Bazzite. Both come with KDE as their main Desktop Environment (“DE”), so you could do what OP did looks-wise.

If you’re a technical user, and don’t hate having to sometimes do things manually, try Garuda Linux - it’s Arch-based, but catered very towards Linux newbies and does a lot of hand-holding. I use it and I enjoy it very much.

To specifically do what OP did with his DE - KDE comes with the concept of Panels and Widgets. The top bar you see in the screenshot is a Panel. On it, there are (from right to left) the System Tray widget, a Spacer widget, a Digital Clock widget with customised display format (something you can do in the settings of the widget), another Spacer, an Icons-Only Task Manager widget (displays active applications and lets you pin applications - like the Taskbar in Windows or Dock in macOS), and finally the Application Launcher widget (the Start menu equivalent). Everything is pretty heavily customised (presumably with Panel Colorizer? Not sure), so that - out of the box - even with this exact setup copied, yours would look slightly different.

YouTube hides your subscriptions from you

How do you mean?

Maybe you need to read what I wrote again…?

My doctrinal explanation was about suicide being a sin, which is the reason for people of faith not offing themselves left and right. This has nothing to do with how a person handles grief because it’s a different topic.

In terms of grief, I explained that however people may understand the logic of the doctrine, their physical bodies still react to the chemical signals received, and therefore grief is still present.

I’m baffled at your take that this is somehow a “doctrinal explanation”, mate. It’s literally the opposite, I’m talking about biology here.

I have no clue what you mean. Other than stating that suicide is a grave sin, I never touched doctrine or “religion logic”. What are you talking about?

Yeah, that’s essentially what I meant. The validation could happen much like with PGP keys and passwords.