Quoting: KimyrielleDid anyone read that before reaching for the pitchforks?

AI should always be a choice

Who cares as long as it's optional, really?

The people who understand that mozilla likes to bury such "choices" under dark patterns and/or hard to find, undocumented, settings.

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Some people, when seeing such success, wonder how they can monetise it better. Team cherry wondered how they could better thank their fans.

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Being a patron would normally imply getting the funded goods in exchange for funding, wouldn't it?

I find the terminology around this program quite misleading, even repulsive in a world where we get thrown to death with the "companies are not charities" phrase.

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Kde will most certainly get its share of my yearly open source donations.

I may not get along with plasma, but there's still a fairly long list of kde stuff that I am using on my xfce installs, from okular all the way down to kupfer.

Recent (for me) high point: kdeconnect.

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A bit fuzzy on why the communications seem to not be secured in a manner that prevents this from becoming a problem.

I.e.: I would have expected encrypted channels to make the question of authentication moot. If they aren't, I would strongly suggest not using kde connect on public/unknown networks regardless of the bug mentioned in the article.

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Not sure I like having folders in the start menu.

Actually, I am sure I don't. But since this is mint, I am correct in assuming we can do without the fancy modern stuff in the start menu?

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How well does crossover handle the newer microsoft offices these days?

Fifteen years ago, it handled office2000 very well, only problem being the help function.

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(now known as Welcome to Basingstoke)

Wise decision. Understandably, the town proper gets priority on many a search engine when searching without the "welcome to".

it's criminally neglected, probably because of the original asking price

It is on sale now on gog until 05/11/2025. Methinks that they moved to the other extreme with that silly low sales price of €2.

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This is simply not true anymore and you need to update your sources. It was true maybe 5 years ago but today the difference between native packages,

Microsoft edit was released this year.

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For those wanting to squeeze every possible bit of performance out of their machines, this sounds like a nice upgrade for Canonical to be working on.

The best thing one can do for performance on ununtu is to get rid of snaps.

The snaps version of microsoft edit was reported (by omgubuntu) to take 5 seconds to start on modern system.

Let me repeat that: 5 seconds to start *edit* because of a flagship tech.

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