John Richard

Great that there are so many fixes, but so few changes for a new release. Also… hardcoded OAuth tokens is questionable. People connecting Gmail are basically giving Mozilla full access to their email:

https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/6176

Car dealerships in America are like legalized shell entities to protect manufacturers from liability and add an extra layer of corrupt in the middle. I really think people should spend more time reading their legal contracts, especially when buying a new car. Car salespeople can lie about pretty much anything & as long as you sign the agreement, there isn’t much you can do, and it almost certainly has an arbitration clause as well.

This headline is sensationalized. I hear things like this but then ask myself what do I see when I go on a drive. I live in a solid blue state, and I see a lot of new Teslas. Tesla is still the only manufacturer that can sell direct to consumer here in Washington State:

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/24/tesla-to-maintain-exclusive-hold-on-direct-ev-sales-to-wa-consumers/

Yes, you heard that right. In a solid blue state with Democrats in charge of House & Senate in the state, they still vote in favor of Musk. I honestly think people that believe that car dealerships are the bastion of honest & fair business dealings are braindead though, just NPC zombies or something.

You ever heard of Wine? The majority of work to make Windows apps work on Linux is not with ReactOS. Last time I tried ReactOS it was more like a nostalgic OS for people to remember the good ole days of minesweeper. It wasn’t a serious project to actually become compatible with modern Windows. Even if it was, I wouldn’t trust the authors to do so. Wine however has made serious progress and there are multiple Windows apps that now run on Linux as a result. The Linux community should not embrace Windows. Microsoft needs to embrace the Linux community & make their source code open enough and documentation good enough to run Windows software on Linux natively. Otherwise you’re doing free work for a company that will be acting hostile towards you, and it just isn’t worth it. You’d be better off at that point at convincing software makers to make their apps compatible with Linux or using a hypervisor.