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I’m with OP.

When me and my wife got married, we invited 20-ish people. Small service, lunch for everyone, and every guest looked happy. It was a good day and looking back, I would not have done it differently.

One year earlier, we went to a wedding of a friend with ~200 people. Nice woman, but a total show-off. The wedding reception was horrible. They had a dress code, the service was spread among three locations, there were apparently massive costs, and many awkward, unhappy looking people. That marriage apparently did not last either.

Did they not switch recently to Cosmic DE? Maybe people do not like that?

I tried PopOS a few years ago. I did not particularly care for their Gnome implementation, but other than that, it was quite decent.

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I know plenty of Boomers who are additcetd to their smartphones. Even more so than the younger generations. Some even have the TV on in the background while doomscrolling.

He does not. His stunt double does. :-)

This one made my wife say some very unladylike words. Have an upvote, sir!

Thank you for calling out a pet peeve of mine.

Adding to this already good post, a side benefit of a service like Vaultwarden is that you can use the same password management system among all your devices.

Is that an apple thing?

Sadly no. I have had several Lenovo’s with the same thing, and my current Asus at work does not allow swapping memory or SSD either. My daily driver is a Tuxedo, which does allow all this.

The apple of the automotive world.

From what I hear from a BMW mechanic in the family, they are starting to become the Acer of the Automotive world, although they would have to compete with Volkswagen for that title.

Please allow me to broaden the context. I used to be an avid motorcyclist. I had a 2000 BMW R1100, which I could service with a modest set of tools. A more modern BMW appears to be very hostile to home mechanics. Even the screws have a corporate head nowadays. Servicing a BMW has become very expensive, as it requires some extremely specialized mechanics (or so they say). My next motorcycle, if I ever buy one, will NOT be a BMW.

It fits in a trend: consumers are being kept from servicing, upgrading or otherwise extending the lifespan of their devices. Repair a smartphone? Good luck. Swap an SSD in your laptop. Tough, buddy. Want to set up your dishwasher. Sure, download the app, give your GPS coordinates and the birth date of your firstborn and you can set it up.

Armchair general here who is bad at strategy games. Please take with a grain of salt.

The US sent advanced armies at several agricultural societies and still got their asses handed to them. I can imagine that in a domestic setting, the death toll will be high, but that the civilians eventually win. Also, I wonder whether the military would want to fight their own people. Then again, ICE is a thing as well.

Where are you from, OP? Not only do we not eat dessert right before bedtime (where did you get that silly idea?), but where we live, dessert is commonly either milk-based, fruit based or both.

It would have to be very, very bad and it would weigh heavily on my soul if I ever were to speak those words to my children.

by and far either the most or least ethical people

Anedcote: I once had a lead developer who was a successful lawyer earlier in his career. He quit his law office because he could not stomach defending people who were not only obviously guilty, bet were scumbags as well.

Ignorance, propaganda and probably racism.

I can imagine that many African and East-Asian countries have their own strong opinions on the French and with better reason than the USA.

That’s a good personal rule, sir.

I once knew a woman who only noticed she was pregnant when she gave birth. One night she had some belly ache. Next thing she knows, she was suddenly a mother. In her own words: she was pretty sturdily built.

You could look into Group-Office. Their community edition is open source and free. Looking a your list, it ticks all the boxes. It is also in active development; the Docker image is updated almost weekly.

Here’s a somewhat cynical take: marketeers do it for the money. Period. Back when I a student myself, I met many types of students. Marketing students could roughly be classified as ‘in here for the money’ and ‘I do not know what to do otherwise’. There was no real sense of activism or any desire to make the world a better place (except for themselves that is).

Throughout my career I met with many marketeers. They were nice to work with, but I never met anybody in marketing who was inclined to use their skills for a good cause.

At least they would have a good idea where I live.