The only time mine were ever connected to the internet was to update the software, and for that the easiest thing I thought was to host a temporary wifi hotspot (using a phone).
I've made a point of always installing software via the package manager. That means making my own PKGBUILDs if there's not already good ones available. I don't want to ever sidestep the package manager and go `sudo make install` or something. That feels like taking a shit in your system directories and you'll never be able to clean it all up after a short while.
Ubuntu Touch... I was so excited about it that I bought one of the phones with it preloaded. I even used it as my sole daily driver for months, until I learned that I was not receiving all calls made to me. Even after that I kept hoping it would keep developing so that I could pick it up again one day. But then Canonical abandoned it instead. That's when they became as good as dead to me.
Sadly, KDE and Gnome each spent a lot of time on the same things. Plasma Mobile has ate more time that could have went into making Plasma a better desktop.
That's a strange argument. Open source software including Plasma Mobile is developed by volunteers who choose to spend their time on a given project. I am quite happy with the pace of Plasma Desktop and the progress made in the past 3 years on its 6th iteration.
As a KDE developer I can say that there are times that we have done things differently or taken the long road because we wanted to support Plasma Mobile.
It would have just been better to continue doing the desktop specific things and let the Plasma Mobile enthusiasts make those changes.
It's the internet. There are no borders and there is no mandate to follow any consensus. Stores may not want to sell cigarettes to children, but e-stores safely hosted in some remote country do want to sell them nicotine pouches and vapes. With a protocol that makes age information always available to websites they could hide their intentions from adults while actively targeting children.
IMO you could have some mechanism by which websites could have content certified as child-safe if they agree to adhere to certain standards. (And thereby make them accessible to child-safe devices, which would otherwise default to blocking content which doesn't bear such a certificate.) Adult devices would not implement those restrictions and would therefore be unaffected.
I recently stumbled upon a small channel called KVN AUST, who's been making videos about what he calls "YouTube's Recycle Bin". It's about this and SO many other search terms (over a hundred), that turn up videos that have been public for over a decade often without a single view. It's so fascinating to see the random things people have uploaded.
It's stupid that my YT front page is simply empty, because "Your watch history is off", when it could simply be filled with a random selection of videos.
Instead of "free communication" I would say "free large public social media", because without going all DPRK, there's no stopping people from using the internet, a means of free communication.
One day they'll fly to a drone factory, eliminate all the personnel, then start gently shooting at the machinery to create more weaponized drones and then it's all over before you know it!
Flawless on AMD? Absolutely not. 2-3 years ago there used to be a amdgpu bug that froze my entire laptop randomly with no recourse beyond the 4 second power button press. After that was fixed, it sometimes got stuck on shutdown. Now it doesn't do that randomly anymore, but yet all it takes to break it, is to turn off the power to my external monitor (or the monitor powering off by itself to save energy) or unplugging it, after which it can no longer be used without rebooting and then sometimes it gets stuck on shutdown.
Clarification: The AMD iGPU driver (or Chrome) on Ubuntu 24.04 has bugs on your hardware. You could try a newer and different distro (just using a live-USB) to see if that has been fixed.
