GerryMandering

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This year?

Agree 100%. This also applies for simple things like calculator apps, calendars, photo galleries, everything.

I remember seeing a list of required permissions and terms of service for the stock calculator app on a xiaomi phone and it was as long as your arm.

Insane.

Personal recommendation for a launcher available on f-droid (I think via the izzyondroid repo, but maybe the default repo because I can’t remember) is thr highly customisable NeoLauncher

I agree with this. If I’m scrolling through a Linux forum and someone is stating something demonstrably incorrect, I don’t want someone to stumble on the post and run into difficulties so I always downvote that particular post and upvote the posts with the right answer.

Now, if I disagree with someone that’s different.

Like if I’m in a thread about your favourite tv show, I don’t downvote someone I disagree with because it’s subjective. I might upvote the people I agree with, but it doesn’t seem fair to downvote someone’s opinion.

But some things are either right or wrong, and your example of bad technical advice is one such thing

Hmmm. I agree they’re no threat to the US in the sense that they’re not going to suddenly invade.

As for the performance of their military in the Ukraine war, I’m not convinced they’re as “corrupt and poorly managed” as they’ve been presented in western media. Granted, the assault on Kiev was a shitshow but things have changed a lot since then, and the most likely outcome right now looks like some sort of victory for russia in that war - probably with Russia ending up in control of all the territory they claimed to have ‘annexed’, plus a corridor including Odessa.

It’s worth remembering Ukraine’s military was and is enormous and extremely well equipped with modern tanks, rocket artillery, all the ammunition the west is capable of manufacturing and shipping, satellite surveillance, anti air defences, everything, and seem (at least to me) to still be losing the war.

I read this… https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukraine

Maybe John mearsheimer is full of shit, and too pessimistic, but what he outlines in that article is grim

Russia is the most nuclear armed country on earth with the most advanced and difficult to intercept hypersonic missiles on earth. They’re a threat to anyone.