A lot of that isn’t known until nearly the last minute. Especially any of the hard metrics like mp/kwh, range, and especially any infotainment specifics.

Does anybody want a peanut?

Hundreds.

100% correct.

When you work for a corporation, you are working for a dictatorship. You have the power to choose which dictatorship you’d like to work for, but you only have whatever power they let you have.

Power that can be snatched away any time of their choosing.

At most large companies, this isn’t too uncommon. Town Halls are not the same as town halls elected officials might stage.

This is really cool, never heard of these guys before. Thank you!

Now, if only I could find another email provider that’s good that isn’t Proton…

no?

Also a reply so you can understand a bit how things typically work in FOSS projects.

There’s a democracy in healthy ones, but ultimately, there has to be someone at the top that has the final say. The project maintainer/main contributor. Someone who gets to be the tie breaker, or absolutely final authority on what does or doesn’t make it into a patch/version/etc.

This is extremely common, and generally healthy, in these kinds of ecosystems.

I don’t know if it’s complete devotion, but Linus has a reputation he’s earned the difficult/hard way.

If he says something, people should take it seriously and consider his words. That’s not to say he’s right all the time, but you’d better have a damn good reason for disagreeing with him.

This is correct.

If someone was doxxing you on bluesky, for example, and in the doxxing, you got attacked/injured by someone who recognized you/went to your house.

The thing is, most billionaires are sociopaths. You don’t get there without being able to treat people like cattle, and consider yourself far, far, far above everyone else.

They’re all late game capitalist oligarchs, which almost always trends towards fascism in the end. It’s no surprise, it’s been happening for a while now, we’re just the biggest country to fall under this spell.

They don’t have any morals or ethics, they only have one purpose: Make more money at any expense to build their dragon hoard further.

They’ll praise trump and suck his dick if it doubles their earnings. That’s all they ever cared about. And trump will absolutely do them favors if they kiss his ass. It’s one of the things he was impeached for already.