The way Linux sucseeds is by having a distro that embeds into its own culture the lack of terminal. A distro that not only DOESN’T come with terminal, but uses it as a “selling” point.

This is the stupidest idea I've heard since I heard the stupidest idea and that was in this same channel / community, a few months ago. Half the power of Linux is the terminal, because you can be expressive in doing things there that simply can't be done in a reproducible manner in GUIs. and reproducibility is very important when you want people to adopt Linux because you need the support you give to work "almost everywhere", which the terminal does.

What is missing, more than "no terminal", is "everything (or at least most of the stuff) that is doable in a terminal SHOULD have an associated standard to access it via a GUI". But then you get into issues such as "the start menu should be in THIS corner of the screen and labelled THIS way and have the menus in THIS order"... and at the end that's just corporate Gnome image, which by this point is just Windows but for Linux (see: Icaza, Potterdung, et al.).

Always has been.

I think Proton is a good choice. I’ve heard good things about them.

Well they have been behaving just as Microsoft has been doing if we're complaining about these kinds of behaviours. Handing over information about environmentalists and freedom fighters to repressive governments, etc.

Of course the military funding is up! There's a Genocide to support! Everything for the votes! To own the libs!

Son pillos, van a subir el pasaje $20 no $30...

I am precluded from donating, is the point.

Now, if there's a good solution to that that doesn't involve cr*pto, I'm all ears.

There's an important element to monetization in the Fediverse that people are not tackling:

Money movement is tracked. And we are here mostly to avoid tracking.

I have this account tied to my more-or-less-real persona, but I have 12 more accounts in the Fediverse not tied to it. If setting up something like a subscription service would mean Fediverse has to implement eg.: KYC laws, or attach accounts to real person banking info, then I'm barred from participating in this real money economy in 11/12ths of the Fediverse even if I liked the content.

That includes getting normies here.

But normies ruin everything!

a curse upon these distros

It's not the distros, it's Flathub who provides those warnings.

I might be old but I seem to recall the French taught the proper way to protest this kind of stuff, rather than the soft protests we saw in 2020, let alone 2016.

As for me, fortunately I live in tbe Best Hemisphere so I plan to offer whatever housing space I have available so my friends from the US can flee over and nap the Trump Kingdom over.

GRRM is still writing his series.

That's simple: have the earliest works released into the public domain, while he keeps squatting on the newer and promised ones.

How long do you think copyright should be?

No easy solutions but my general guideline would be that both copyright and patents should never last more than half the retirement age of a current generation, calculated via actuarial tables or some trustable scientific method.

The rationale is simple: the ultimate purpose of both is (or, well, should be) to promote creation so that society in general can be participant of the resulting effects. Half the retirement age not only is a good compromise between giving creator control and giving at least half of society the opportunity to enjoy the public good result of creation within their lifetime and within their fair opportunity to earn wages, in particular in such cases as eg.: big pharma and medications, but also promotes that big creators, such as corporations, act towards the public good of lengthening life and providing good living standards for the rest of society.