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Every time this point comes up, ultimate conclusion isn't the CLI is bad or can't be improved, but the VT220 and similar emulation that's holding things back. Any person who has developed a terminal emulator can attest to that. There have been and are attempts at a much better CLI, but until we drop the legacy baggage, we can't have nicer things, at least in a sane way. But if we do that, we don't really have enough incentive to use the newer tools. Its a catch 22 after all.

Rest of your suggestions are quite thoughtful, but

> They can license feeds to specific clients only

this is a bad idea.

> That would imply people will go back to installing things, hunting for feeds, copypasting urls...

Nope. We could have a simple list of feeds, with a simple 'add' button next to the site name, even embedded in the app itself, as preferred/most read feeds list. Since this list contains no excerpts, and actual excerpts and feeds would be coming from publisher themselves, it shouldn't be an issue.

Of course, then we have questions like order of this list, how many and which feeds it lists and all, but it offers enough convenience that if made avoidable, we shouldn't have a problem with it.

Or since IANAL, this _may not_ be how the links and excerpts are considered, and I'm wrong, in which case, I'd like to know so I can correct myself.

A cursory google search couldn't find what you mention. Can you cite the source please?

I know another example that goes in opposite direction, of Humble Bundles, where Linux had consistently higher average payment than Windows, but that may have changed in recent years.

It doesn't matter how much value Word delivers when Libreoffice Writer delivers more, for less (zero) cost. For most people, Writer is enough, and so they won't buy Word. Its just free market and competition working the way it should.

Its not about upselling. It is about Google leveraging their effective monopoly as a search engine (in EU, >60%) to unfair advantage in other industries (retail). MS got into same trouble over IE in US as well.

I believe what you meant to say is the owner is in full control of the device, on PCs.

Slide for reddit is another reddit client. Fully open source under GPLv3, nice looks and hi designed very well such that you never have to reach for keys at the bottom. Wholeheartedly recommended.

Hey man, just a nitpick. The input fields fudge up when using dark GTK themes, as in text isn't legible unless I select it. Might wanna look into it.

I've been kinda waiting for something like what Ubuntu is/was to Debian. Approachable. Last time I tried nix, learning curve was too steep. This update looks like they've started to work towards approachability a bit, so I might give it another go.

Perhaps try Skype lite? It has almost zero bloat, and has been working flawlessly for all my needs.

Fortunately for me, it didn't go that far. But I know that feeling, because I've been there. I cut off facebook after a pretty low point in my life, and to this day, it has been the best decision I ever made.

As someone who went through prolonged depression and still barely keeping it at bay, I sometimes get worried sick what I would do if my own (future) kids go through the same.

Looking back, my parents were just too busy and struggling on their own so were just late in trying to help me.

Thank you, this advice will really help me.

> If you think it’s about freedom of information or something, check out Facebook’s stance on net neutrality in India.

I'm sorry, but I'm really not getting your vibe here. If I remember correctly, Facebook tried to make sure Indian market never saw net neutrality, and repeatedly spread FUD through their platform.

If we've learned anything about advertisers in the past, is they WILL get greedy, and start exploiting human brain in more and more ways. Eventually it reaches uncanny valley, and more and more people start noticing how messed up and over the top advertising has gotten and find ways around them or to avoid them, or in the end, neglect them.

Of course, this assumes people still 'own' their devices, at that..

I'm looking to get started on Ansible since my new install is coming up in few weeks. Can you point me to a decent tutorial?

Hence the question mark. What did Debian have for v1 then?

Could also be that Red Hat has a lot of devs on Gnome. That means more contributions, which means greater control over project's direction, the only way that can happen in OSS. And with corporate backing comes faith from many people. Also Debian defaulted to Gnome since v1(?). So did Ubuntu(mostly). KDE is very much a community project despite considerable resources from SUSE and few other corporate entities. Add to it Gnome's almost fixed 6 month churn and it becomes a pretty enticing choice for organizations having to support that piece of software for 5+ years.