In the middle of all the gimp naming controversy, if there's a name I would stick to with ease, it would be something involving the green pepper.

Today I learned that gnome has a crossword maker. Now I need to play with it too!

I didn't mean the choice of image format is a monopolistic behavior, but that the monopoly puts google in a position that any choice they make, be it a good or bad one, becomes an industry standard, without others having any choice in it.

So true. I'd complement the first point to include a general lack of documentation. Sometimes, we can't even know some pinout schema without trial and error.

Such a license wouldn't fit the free software or the open source definitions, but I find it interesting that there has been a small, yet apparently growing, group of people unsatisfied with our current open licensing, for different reasons, and proposing new ideas and concepts that wouldn't fit these definitions.

Voluntarily uploaded data? This feels like that old linux user count site.

I will run that probe on my machines to contribute, though.

Openwrt is awesome! It has the gui with the best ratio of ease of use/features I ever used in a router. It can require some skills to be installed, but then it's so smooth. I wish we had routers with openwrt straight from oems.

non ironically, firefox did a jump in version numbers after firefox 4 because people were seeing the low number compared to other browsers, and would think they were behind technically.

I liked the ones that didn't stray too much from the original. I always liked the gecko, but found it to be a bit weird looking.

It's hard to find estimates of android devices, but most reports I found indicate around 3 billion, and this makes us around 0,05%. I expected it to be low, but not like that...

Brazilian here, used to people being robbed all the time:

Almost 100% of the time, robbers just want quick cash, ant they will either 1: steal the phone and try to sell it (most robberies simply fall into this first category) or 2: point you a gun and force you to unlock the phone in order to 2a: force you to transfer money from all your banking apps or 2b: take it unlocked in order to send messages to your contacts asking for money.

Most robbers don't have enough tech skills to even understand what a bootloader is. We live in techy social circles and we tend to think everyone has similar skills, while in reality, most people can barely use their devices. Just to illustrate how low are most people skills, if you format a drive with something like ext4, most of the population will be unable to access it.

The kind of situations where criminals will have high skills tend to be when they target specific people or companies, usually paid by crime lords or rivals. Such scenario is very unlikely to happen to the average joe.

Don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying that security measures are unnecessary. I'm just telling how most criminals operate around here, and highlighting how we tend to overestimate people's tech skills.

Microplastics, BPAs, PFAs... We're screwed.