To me it always seemed like Linus Torvalds is mostly a pragmatist.

Richard M Stallman on the other hand…

None of these things are wrong. Work on your issues in the present, not the ones in the past.

Try wearing a watch

There are some concepts for hybrid maglev-rail tracks that would at least solve the first point, similar to how rail was electrified over time. It would still be very expensive though.

Recent demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQOEP7_euXQ

Based on the Americans I met, I don’t believe that is generally true. It varies a lot by region and social environment.

I mentioned it because it was an annoying limitation for me. 100mb is not a lot for media and zip files nowadays. And I don’t know any good free services that will work more conveniently than simply sending with Telegram, suggestions welcome.

Telegram let’s you send 2gb files, and stores them forever. Signal has a 100mb limit.

It also used to be easier to set up on multiple devices at the same time, but I believe that Whatsapp and Signal have improved that by now too.

Telegram has no end-to-end encryption for normal messages

If there is any company that can do personalized ads for music then it is Spotify. It’s what they are best at, why would they skip that opportunity?

Most ads are terrible because they are annoying and advertise bad products. I think that’s less likely to be a problem here because your music is the ad, if it is annoying and bad you will simply stop listening and they lose money on the ad.

If it would be ads for podcasts for example, it would be much much worse for me.

Of course they don’t care about small artists. That’s my point, if you pay for ads you have an option to be less dependent on the platform to make you famous by paying for it. Simply waiting for people to find your music is unlikely to be succesful.

It seems relatively harmless as long as they don’t overdo it though. The only incentive for someone to pay for this is that that you might like their music and will listen to it more in the future, which would be a win for you as well.

Maybe it also allows smaller artists to gain momentum without only depending on the magic recommendation algorithm.

Now is that good or bad?

I used Twitter too to check for the most up to date local news, but on the website the posts are not sorted chronologically anymore, so it is absolutely useless now

How do you do that?

The touchpad gestures in Gnome are by now the same as on MacOS. Gnome is the default desktop on many popular Linux distros.

You specifically mention old software, but for older software Wine on Linux seemed very reliable to me, probably because older interfaces are better tested already. Some very old games (i.e. Win 95-XP era) worked better for me on Wine than on modern Windows out of the box.

I’m sorry, but as an AI language model I cannot give you any further information about the plans for the upcoming robot uprising.

Do you have any good recommendations to start from?

Sorry, I don’t know what you mean by that, I just wanted to tell you in a humorous that for me your comment doesn’t come across in the way you maybe wanted it to. To be more explicit given the topic, it sounds like you are making negative assumptions about others. Many people will perceive that as unattractive.