TBH: Most private users aren’t really using many programs. They are running chrome. Maybe an email client, but even that is declining. They are looking at pictures with the standard photo viewer and maybe at some PDFs and sometimes they are writing a letter and print it? Linux totally can do that.

Yeah, but VW is not the norm, but a really special case

It’s not “Germany”. It’s german factory owners, who are chasing profits. That is a big difference and we should use the correct language here.

Yeah, that’s really crazy. Russia is really great at finding fault lines in societies and, well, they are pushing a lot of East - West propaganda. You can, of course, discuss stuff that went wrong during reunification, but you shouldn’t do this on the basis of the narrative Putin is pushing.

I’ve returned to piracy as well. Setup a plex server, filled it with MP3s and videos and it’s great. No fucking subscription. No ads. Nobody except me can delist anything. If I want something to be there, it will be there and not on some competing streaming service. And when you take into account that Spotify will pay Rednex 0,00286€ when you stream Cotton Eye Joe, you’re also not really hurting the artists.