Dude lives in Germany for nearly 20 years, but is still stated as "from Saudi Arabia".

The environmentalist in me is rather happy to hear this. Frankly, 25% is too low. Trump may be crazy, but if his trade war(s) mean higher prices on fuel for the biggest driver of climate change on the planet, I'll take it

That's the dream. Where do you live?

I have enough anger for both.

This is a common problem with Free software, and honestly I think it's our biggest one: we build stuff for ourselves and stop there. If we want our stuff to be adopted (which, for things that rely on network effects, we do) then we need to pay more attention to usability.

Here's a suggestion for anyone starting a project they think they might share. Before you start writing any code, write the documentation. Then rewrite it from the perspective of the least tech-literate person you know who you'd still want to use the project. Only after you've worked out how easy it should be for this person to get started, then you can start writing the thing.

I think you give foreign actors too much credit. Canada's got plenty of gullible right wing idiots on its own.

Nifty! I wrote something similar a couple years ago using Vosk for the stt side. My project went a little further though, automating navigating the programs you start. So you could say: "play the witcher" and it'd check if The Witcher was available in a local Kodi instance, and if not, then figure out which streaming service was running it and launch the page for it. It'd also let you run arbitrary commands and user plugins too!

I ran into two big problems though that more-or-less killed my enthusiasm for developing on it: (1) some of the functionality relied on pyautogui, but with the Linux desktop's transition to Wayland, some of the functionality I relied on was disappearing. (2) I wanted to package it for Flatpak, and it turns out that Flatpak doesn't play well with Python. I was also trying to support both arm64 and amd64 which it turns out is also really hard (omg the pain of doing this for the Pi).

Anyway, maybe the project will serve as some inspiration.

Remember that the beautiful, vibrant neighbourhoods we campaign for aren't monocultures, but diverse spaces for all kinds of living (within reason). 4-6 storeys is expected, as are 1-3 and even 26. The magic is in the planning and use, not so much the verticality.

Have a look at Vancouver's West End for example. I lived there for around 10 years and it's really doing a great job in all the right categories. There's some single family homes, some town homes, small apartment blocks, historical homes, and some skyscrapers, all situated around mixed use commercial/residential areas, parks, cycling, and transit. It's not perfect, but it's pretty great for North America.

Amsterdam, our favourite model (I lived there for 5 years) also has a broad mix of densities. Though it definitely favours 2-4 storeys, there are many different elevations and I lived in a gorgeous 6-storey apartment block off the Veemkade for some of the greatest years of my life.

So don't worry so much about the height. Worry about the spaces between and how they're planned. Is the transit good, are they prioritising people over cars? Are there parks and other walkable spaces, as well as space for cafés and grocers? That's the magic right there.

Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. - Wikipedia

I was both surprised and impressed with Kdenlive.

I quite like Simple SMS messenger. It does what it says on the tin.

I'm surprised that there isn't already a simple thumb keyboard with a USB-C plug at the top that you can just buy on Amazon. I would think that what you've done here would be super helpful for lots of people.