Well, OP only specified that they’d been using Linux for about a decade; no mention of their laptops not being from the early 90s. :)

Whatever nebulous issues one or the other may or may not have had, my personal experience is that startpage (from my understanding, basically privacy’d google) provides higher quality search results than DDG (fmu, basically privacy’d bing).

Great operating system, that. Shame it lacks a text editor.

I think that’s called grayjay.

There are people coming from Windows, which does not have dd.

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It’s worse than that, the first safety inspection is after four years, not six.

Here’s one for less than 4 USD. I imagine 150 mm in length would be sufficient.

With a useful shortcut at isup.me

Kubuntu on my desktop, I prefer KDE as a DE and I’m used to the Debian ecosystem.

Linux Mint on my relatively low powered laptop that I rarely use.

Debian stable on my media server.

Thank you for the corrections, I think I maybe skimmed the text back when it went through the EP, so I was mostly going from (poor) memory.

My understanding is that this would allow for lawsuits along the lines of “Your poorly written software caused [our business to lose this giant contract|thousands of consumers left with bricked devices|my washing machine to eat my dog]. Now pay up!”

Essentially, software vendors (vendor being the operative word here) would become liable for damage caused by their faulty products, just like manufacturers of air compressors or toys or fireworks.

Indeed, Poul-Henning Kamp of bikeshed and BSD fame got a nice little discussion thread started yesterday over on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bsdphk@fosstodon.org/113317528662477344

Yeah, I’m assuming developers in the big software companies are donning lifejackets due to the amount of palm sweat from the C-suites.

I’ve found liberal amounts of contact cleaner to solve inadvertent double clicking.