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The way Mastodon and federated stuff works, it's a shame more organisations don't host their own Mastodon instances for their official announcements instead of Xitter and Facebook. They don't really take that much admin as only employees would need accounts to post. The BBC is trialling this I believe.

At the other end of the spectrum, Colgate sell battery powered brushes for kids with non-replaceable heads. When the head wears out you have to scrap the whole device. I wrote to Colgate (Palmolive) via their website and got a crappy canned response about how they are responsible and the environment is important to them blah blah blah.

https://www.colgate.com/en-gb/products/toothbrush/colgate-kids-minions-extra-soft-for-0-3-years

Edit: I know they're not European either. I just wanted to call them out for how unsustainable they are compared to some others.

More hate leads to more wars, and we could do with less of those in the world. If you hate them, and brand them your enemy, you push them further away.

Be better than them. Be stronger than them. Educate them and show them how to improve. It's harder than hating them but ultimately more productive. Hate is easy.

The OP was about an email account being deleted. It said nothing about Greenland.

I'm just trying to quell the hate speech. Hating a whole country because it's idiot leader says and does stupid things will only lead to bad things.

Using words like "enemy" and other hateful things about various countries and groups was how Trump energised and mislead people to vote for him. By meeting it with more hate we just make it worse. Surely we are better than this? The world has enough hate already without adding to it.

By all means, deride the actions of a madman and his puppet corporations, but to hate an entire country will just make this worse.

Here's a quote with equal relevance:

"When did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?"

... And by "equal relevance" I mean not at all.

Seriously though, a corporation cancelled the account of someone who should never have been using it for official business in the first place. More reason to be less reliant on US corporate services and develop open European alternatives. But, terms like "enemy" over this? I thought we were better than that. That's MAGA level escalation and hatred.

Let's rise above this.

The most recent info I can find (2020) is that he's using a Threadripper. I daresay he might have upgraded it by now, but it should give an idea what he goes after. There are a few links from reputable sources around that time, here's one.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/

I use Shotcut for video editing. Haven't seen that mentioned here yet.

Same here. Running NixOS on mine, and despite not being officially supported they have pretty good channels on their forums and the staff are quite active on there too.

No, but what they're saying is ... Well, it's funny because... Just shut up! Coming around here with all your LOGIC! Ruining our jokes.

I guess it depends on your use case. I haven't owned a Windows PC since 2016. Linux all the way for me. The games I play run on it, the applications I need run on it, and it works well for me without tinkering getting in the way. I can even use it for work these days and I have far less VPN flakiness than both Windows and Mac colleagues.

For my use case the year of the Linux desktop is here, and has been for a while.

I didn't say they wouldn't know what it meant, I said they would be unlikely to know how it will affect them in their daily usage.

Most Windows users are accustomed to installing and updating their own applications, and letting the OS deal with its own updates and patches. They probably don't think much about all the dependencies and what version they're on because the installers deal with it.

When deciding whether to use a Linux LTS they may think it sounds like a good idea, with no appreciation for what happens when a package gets out of date, and their package manager won't update it, and they don't know why. They go down the rabbit hole of adding PPAs etc, which solves it in the short term maybe. Then it only gets worse from there, because they didn't understand that using an LTS means you have chosen to accept some packages being out of date for a while, until the next LTS is released.

Maybe they're the kind of person that is happy with that, or maybe they're not. But if you try to explain to the average Windows user about package repositories, Flatpaks, Snaps, LTS, rolling releases etc, you can pretty much guarantee they'll never try it because it sounds too damn hard.

Which brings me back to my original point... Us Linux users argue amongst ourselves too much about this stuff to attract Windows users, no matter what Microsoft does with their data.