I would like to see Europe overcome its ingrained sinophobia and supremacism. We might actually have peace on Earth or at least in Asia.

It shouldn’t be surprising, in the addition to the lack of discipline, propaganda actually works.

I am looking forward to GNU+Linux usage share numbers a year from now. I think it is very likely to pass 5%.

I trust OIC and Muslim countries more than I trust any Western source. It is borderline farcical for Western governments and media to pretend to care about the welfare of Muslims in China while directly or indirectly enabling the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine and invasions and war crimes in many other countries as well as the discriminatory policies in their own countries.

OpenAI, and others, lose money on every prompt even with paid subscriptions. The resources will still be wasted by them but to cost them money is priceless.

MediaBiasFactCheck is trash though and has a pro Israel bias.

But which one is a lesser evil?

During my lifetime the US has invaded/bombed and killed thousands [directly or indirectly] in:

1. Afghanistan
2. Iraq
3. Syria
4. Libya
5. Sudan
6. Pakistan

The US has also facilitated a genocide in Palestine through weapon shipments, intelligence sharing, fleet placement and UN vetoes and is now preparing to invade Venezuela.

China has not invaded or bombed any country during my lifetime.

The funny thing about people saying “both countries can be bad” is that they will lose their minds if you tell them “both major parties in the US are bad”. Somehow they only accept “lesser-evilism” for themselves but not for others.

Turkiye stood by Ukraine and welcomed Ukrainian refugees and this is how it is rewarded?!

Tibet has been a part of China longer than Ohio has been a part of the US. It is clear which indigenous people did better and which practically don’t exist anymore.

Yes, the US -and most Western media- lie about the genocide in Gaza, but what does this have to do with the British Empire takeover of Hong Kong?

But have you considered “whiteman good, chinaman bad”?

I got this map from BBC dated 20/11/2025.

If X11 is so good why is there no X12?

It’s complicated, but I was born in the US though I also hold a citizenship of another country.

I have come to a similar realization but it took me living in the US to experience it for myself. I’m so glad I left back in January of this year.

It translates Windows API calls to X and POSIX API calls. Theoretically it comes with a performance hit but as benchmarks have shown that is usually not the case as both Wine and the entire system as a whole are more efficient than Windows. Wine will fail whenever an application requests an API call that is not implemented yet, sometimes copying DLLs from Windows helps, sometimes…

You don’t have to distro hop to switch desktop environments. You can install KDE Plasma (5.27 though) on LinuxMint.

Better late than never. I hope the momentum continues.

If you want a Webkit-based browser just use GNOME Web (formerly known as Epiphany).

The inclusion of references to an independent Palestine was the price the US paid for backing from the Arab and Islamic world, who are expected to provide peacekeepers for an international stabilisation force (ISF).

The language fell far short of the firm commitment to the building of a Palestinian state alongside Israel sought by Arab and Islamic states, as well as European council members, but in speeches to the chamber after the vote, delegates from those countries said they were prepared to accept the compromise in the interests of extending the current truce and immediate measures to feed and protect the 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza.

Not ideal, far from it. But it is something that even the Biden administration wasn’t willing to give the Palestinians. It makes it harder for Israel to annex Palestine, but it provides no real promise or timeline for statehood. I do believe that time is on the Palestinians’ side which is why Israel had to be as violent and brutal as it did and commit a genocide while the whole world was watching. Israel had a clear goal of forcing the Palestinians out of their lands, and despite the high toll, they failed. Instead they turned themselves into pariahs and hastened their demise despite the US-led rule-based-order that guarantees their safety.