It is possible to get it into such state, but on a good distro like Debian simply changing the desktop environment and updating to a new major version is not going to be one of those troublesome "non-standard" things :)

I'm not aware of anything happening recently that would make it relatively unsafe. I have only used it for 20 years though, so can't say whether it was safe or not before that.

You get GUI app sandboxing with Flatpak these days.

To be frank, having a poorly functioning sense of smell is not exactly a great excuse for ignorance. Are you rejecting everything that you can't verify with your (or your relatives') senses?

Who would have thought?

Politicians who appease these irrational psychogenic illnesses that sweep a population instead of saying "you're all idiots" are awful people. An abrogation of their leadership.

Ask yourself: for politicians who know they are on their way out, what prevents them from selling out what power they have? I doubt any have a sufficiently inflated sense of self, and most likely know how to do so nowadays without getting caught.

Sure, we want to elect good people. But relying on their goodness invites moral hazards like this. Everything that makes them an effective politician also makes them an effective criminal, so the question is hardly academic.

I know the point of representative democracy.

I am saying that your suggested course of action might be morally superior, but it's hard to get (re-) elected with it.

So there's a selection bias amongst the politicians you see in power.

Agreed that it's in their self-interest to participate in the mass hysteria, but I believe my point still stands that it's an abrogation of leadership.

There's probably plenty of people who would be happy to be elected leaders but who don't compromise their morals like this. You just never see them elected.

Turns out it was just a matter of making your country shitty enough so more people want to flee from it than get there. Mission accomplished, I guess.

It's weird. When the UK voted to leave the EU, the trajectory was quite clear: exodus of workforce, economic slowdown, crisis in academic research etc. It is all playing out as projected.

But because it was kind of slow, you could kid yourself that it's not going to happen. It was like a slow-mo car crash, like watching "the Titanic" and hoping it will at last moment miss the iceberg.

This feels similar.

> "What's the state of my never-rebased branch at time X" is a trivial question to answer.

Yes, but only because of reflog.

git log will also do the job, even if you never checked out the branch in this workspace.

It won't. In some simplest cases it may correlate, but not necessarily.

Sure, you can find some obscure DEs that don't handle that well yet. Or you could just use Plasma and have it all work just fine, like it did for many years now.

> ... then it would try to use Mono to launch it:

That's because of the binfmt handler that Mono installs which matches the PE header.

You likely won't see any improvement aside of resolving some bugs in some very specific edge cases that you may have never stumbled on personally.

You're right, but developers don't really care about cheaters cheating. They care about cheaters ruining the game to others, so closet cheaters are not such a big deal to them even when they're thriving as long as they remain closeted.