I believe that should not be a valid defense, ever.

If you’re not OK with what you’re ordered to do, you should not do it (and we should have a system of justice and social support which honors that).

If you actually do something you’re responsible for that deed, ie possibly culpable.

If you’re being pressured/manipulated/… the person doing so is responsible for that, so culpable as well - but not in place - if applicable.

German law actually contains an apologetic first step in this direction, called ‘Remonstration’. I think we can all guess how it wound up in that particular legal system.

Besides being able to point at the article and say “see, we fixed it”, I’m not aware of a single (let alone significant) case where it was actually/successfully used.

In somewhat interesting contrast, German law does not codify protection of whistle blowers, for example.

Can’t help but notice a lack of the ‘smash successfully’ (or equivalently, ‘fail at contraception’) dimension.

Couldn’t immediately find that one. First two pages of hits for “Behind The Overlay” are for Chrome/Edge, I’m looking for a solution on mobile though, ie Firefox/Fennec - seems to be this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/

… which does not work on mobile unfortunately, because it only offers a toolbar button, not an extension entry/menu.

It stays smaller then, but is still there. However, I’ve found (out) that reader mode works quite OK on that site.

Is there a way to get rid of the huge distracting “Swipe for next article” overlay on the-independent.com?

It’s got 'lectrolytes!!

The idea that Republicans might be willing to “jump through more hoops” would certainly align with Lakoff’s ideas (from 2004, mind):

https://medium.com/@ennuid/george-lakoffs-framing-101-7b88e9c91dac

That hurricane machine must not be working too well…

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203729/fatalities-caused-by-tropical-cyclones-in-the-us/

Aware, yes. Interested, no - closed source philosophy, and the way Apple implements it specifically, turn me off hard.

Ich hatte recht kürzlich eine sehr ähnliche Entscheidung zu recherchieren und zu treffen.

Das mit dem SD Slot ist wirklich schwierig; ich hatte deswegen auch kurz das FairPhone angeschaut, aber ich glaube das war recht riesig UND es hat wohl - im Preissegment - eine wirklich grottenschlechte Kamera. Ein Kumpel hatte mal eins und hat auch darüber geschimpft, was und warum FairPhone überhaupt an Sonderlocken in die Software basteln musste, die ihm jedenfalls auch nicht getaugt haben. Preis/Leistung ist auch nicht so der Bringer. Wenn Du mit dem allen gut leben kannst, immer her damit.

Für mich war LineageOS das noch größere must-have als SD Karte, und aus dem allen heraus ist es nun ein Google Pixel 8a geworden, eben mit Lineage drauf, dh da ist gar nix am Android ‘unnormal’ aus meiner Perspektive. Das 8a weil es nicht gaar so riesig ist wie zB das normale 8 oder 8 Pro, oder die aktuellen Modelle von OnePlus. Ich glaube, ich habe einen zweiten SIM Slot gesehen / glaube, als zweite SIM geht nicht (nur) als eSIM.

Akku Laufzeit reicht mir gut, ist aber wohl eher kurz im Vergleich zum modernen Markt.

Bin jetzt nach paar Wochen immer noch hoch zufrieden. Hab’ den ‘Bumper’ von Spigen dafür, der über das Display hoch ragt, damit kriegt das in meinem durchaus schusseligen Alltag nix ab.

Musste für paar Details meine Lösung damit finden (NANDroid-Style Backup gibt’s dafür nicht, dafür haut das mit NeoBackup und rsync g’scheit gut hin).

Ggf kann ich gerne auch konkrete Fragen dazu beantworten (zur HW, das verGooglete Android mit dem es ausgeliefert wird, habe ich max ne Stunde lang überhaupt gesehen, und nix von dem ach so tollen KI Krams davon).

Edit: Typo

Looks awesome!

Near the top of the ReadMe, it says “desktop and mobile devices” - what’s mobile support like? Is there an app…?

I found it kinda weird that the page this link opens on makes it look kinda like a closed source freemium thing, and (on mobile) I had to dig a fair bit to see that it’s actually FOSS and an official part of the KDE project.

I run KDE as my daily driver, and hadn’t heard of Krita before; so yeah, I guess it could use a bit more exposure.

Which - in my considered opinion - makes them so much worse.

Is it because writing native UI on all current systems I’m aware of is still worse than in the times of NeXTStep with Interface Builder, Objective C, and their class libraries?

And/or is it because it allows (perceived) lower-cost “web developers” to be tasked with “native” client UI?

Well, I’d guess no one would keep you from going “shopping” at the nearest pharmacy.

So… Considering necessary access, it’s a quarter step above “cooking a phone in a microwave oven might catch it on fire”, IMO.

Might be OT since I never was much of a distro hopper.

Got introduced to Linux with SLS, used RedHat until it became too commercial for my taste. At that time, found gentoo and stuck with it hard. It allows me to have completely custom packages fully integrated with the system package manager, that’s the top killer feature for me.

I’d guess about monthly to bimonthly, in the sense of submitting a fix for an issue that affects/concerns me/my use of open source projects.

Thank you for sharing your story!

For your kind of use case and issues, I’d recommend finding someone local with a good amount of Linux experience and do a couple of pair sessions. I find this transports a lot more (especially ‘soft’) knowledge on concepts and how to do things efficiently. Also, it helps to share frustrations ;-)

Linux does not try to be another Windows. While it’s fairly possible to treat it kinda as such especially in newer times, it won’t feel efficient or convenient that way, in my experience.

Kinda disappointed in The Register of all things adopting this faux personal life story reporting style on such a matter.