I don’t know others but for me, it’s the constant bugging with their users. I’ve used Firefox since the beginning, and they have made bad choices before, but this is the last straw. I’m tired of circumventing these choices, sometimes doing so is not even that transparent as a “kill switch” and users had to find strings in a cryptic about::config page, for example.

More important, I don’t want so-called AI in my life. I couldn’t care less about it. I won’t use it unless it helps me to find some scientific conclusion that advances our culture, and I’m not talking something huge, I’m not saying it shouldn’t be used at all. However, any use of AI for cotidian achievable tasks is morally unacceptable for me, and I’d ask for everyone a space for reflection on whether it is something filling a necessity in their lives. So, I guess it’s a rupture for me with Mozilla. I can’t use their product because I find it fundamentally wrong to support the massive use of technologies that barely do any good to society, and none to the planet. It’s not about another little discrepancy on features and settings, it’s about not giving people like me the platform to shout “fuck it, I don’t want it, stop it now”.

The way I see it, they have a proposal to make to you as a user. This is Linux, fortunately. There are plenty of choices to make, so you can try i3 or Sway to make things go exactly your way.

Yes. GNOME is great, but you better learn the logic behind it, it’s not a DE that adjusts well to the user, it’s actually the opposite, but if you get the gist of it, it works wonders.

I’d say in general it’s the same, but way lighter than 320 kbps mp3. It’s better than 192 kpbs mp3 and as good or better than 256 kbps mp3.

If your Spotify popularity is not 0, you probably are in the scraped archive.

It’s not lossless but current ogg vorbis at 160kbps is absolutely transparent for the vast majority of people. That’s actually what I chose to keep my own collection, I mean, outside of the lossless albums that I absolutely want to flawlessly preserve.

Basically, the id3 tags for the music files. However, Spotify uses several more nonstandard tags in their database, some of them are great to make playlists.

I live in a republic, don’t know what you mean.

Are they still called sex workers, then? I mean, your comment is kind of telling, as it is a bit confusing.

What? “Extra big guys” can make serious money in the right business…

Truth is only capitalism had a chance to prove its worth without real external threats, and failed miserably.

Edit: I meant it failed for the people. It actually did wonders for the ones who imposed it.

About the referendum: wow, POS politicians.

Ewwww, but, I mean, that’s Jesus Christ.

Those last “clap” sounds could be not applauses too. Still keeping it cool.

I mean, she scored Bubba, who is apparently a beast by his own right… but, IDK, she doesn’t vibe me as a freak, where that idea came from?

As if a foldable mobile was some kind of industry super secret anyway. Apple is a joke.

European countries have a mindset of colonialist countries that will try to reach for their roots. Unfortunately, that’s part of their political struggle. I actually like the way it is in my country, Mexico. You have one 6-year term only, you can’t have any re-elections, ever. It’s possible to ask for a referendum in the middle of the term, in case the person in chair is not doing as they promised. In the legislative power, we don’t have dinosaurs thanks to this, politicians can go from lower to higher level cameras in this bicameral legislative power, but that’s it. “No reelection” is ingrained with blood in our culture. Of course, electoral systems can only do so much against populist reactionaries, as you put it.

I like the idea of ranked choice voting a lot, but I don’t know how viable that is for the USA. They need change, urgently, and ranked choice voting would be as good as it gets in terms of change.

The people have done what they can. Politicians have failed to them. That’s why Trump was headed to last 4 years in power only, and then the Democrats handed him, on a silver plate, another presidential term by being essentially equal to their rivals. As I see it, the political class is the one failing, by showing the people there is not a real path for a leftist government once and again. Americans need brutal leftist politicians as they have brutal right-wing ones in spades. The people is eager to support a younger Sanders-like face, someone that won’t compromise the benefit of the majority’s views.

This is true, at least some officials of the Nigerian government have stated so.

It’s truly more complicated than that. The USA electoral system is weird worldwide, but more than weird, it’s antiquated and by design, by tradition, very prone to be manipulated, and this goes from the caucus system to the elections themselves.

It’s set up for the people to feel they are actually choosing leaders, but the reality is the political representation is only achieved for an increasingly narrow economical and ideological subset of the people. The American political class is very conservative, and it always breaks my heart that many Democrats feel offended when people from other countries, like me, point this out.