the screenshot does not look like nautilus, maybe xfce?

This is a bug, not enshittification. How would they profit from that?

Also some insects dissolve in their cocoons to a handful of cells and yet still maintain memories from their larva stage

Germany is one of the countries against the current chat surveillance proposal, so at least we have that going for us (which is nice)

Macs are not really what I think of when reading “middle of the road linux”

this is the only right way

there is a base implementation basically all compositors are based on

I recently stopped switching to x11 for gaming. With most games, the performance is 5-10fps better on Wayland

The type annotations are just fancy comments. They do not do anything at runtime. If you have a function that takes an int someone can still pass in a list or anything else.

They created WordPad because of antitrust issues and never changed it. Try opening a Word document created by a recent version, it’s pretty useless today.

Notepad rules though, it even got UTF8 support recently-ish! /s

I get why they do it though - any change to win10 needs testing and so on and might not be welcomed by the user base. You can always download a free (as in freedom) image editor, some are even on the Microsoft Store. Be glad they did not backport all the bad sides of win11…

I was talking about the history on device, of course I agree: never expect privacy on a device controlled by someone else.

I can confirm there are places where that is possible.

Also as long as they do not whitelist executables, you could use a portable version of a browser.

well probably except on iOS, there you have to use Safari