One good part about having a kid is that you get to re-experience all of the fun kid stuff you remember, both as an adult and through the eyes of your kid. You can introduce your kid to your favorite shows/books/etc that you remember (and cringe at some of the stuff you forgot was in there).
I wouldn't call that an underlying moral code. You could call it laziness, I guess. I don't want to live in a society where I have to worry "Will I get murdered today?". If the entire state of Alabama starts getting murder happy it won't affect me directly, but I'm sure going to start worrying that it'll spread to other states where it does affect me.
I also would worry about the citizens of Alabama, don't get me wrong. But that's not from foundational philosophical reasoning, that's just because of a human emotional response. If, for some inscrutable reason, Alabama collectively decided that they all loved murdering each other and only each other (excepting people unable to consent), I guess I'd just shrug and accept it? There's some food for thought there, but it's very similar to the willing cannibalism case.
Morality mostly comes from evolution, and we've post-hoc rationalized it with our nice big monkey brains. Humans got an evolutionary advantage by working together, but other animals not so much. Male ducks are so rapey that the females evolved hidden passages in their vaginas. I don't think any sort of duck society would see eye to eye with humans on the issue.
Morality is subjective. We each decide for ourselves what we consider good and bad. You can still construct a useful ethical system, though. Personally, I don't want to be murdered. Therefore, I want to live in a society where murdering people is outlawed. Some people might want to murder, and I want to live in a society where they are segregated from the public if they do so, i.e. jail. You can extend this to much of the social contract we live under, in this case rape.
From your description, I don't think what you did was wrong. The bystander effect is very real and just human nature. Seeing that she was being taken care of by someone was enough IMO.
Snaps benefit Canonical. They're trying to build their own walled garden, and anyone else benefiting is not a consideration.
Flatpaks are different, because they aren't purpose-built to benefit a single company. I wouldn't use them to install most things, but there's a few places where there's benefits for at least some people. It's a lot easier to maintain large projects like Firefox on older distro releases for example. You get sandboxing, so that say a bug in Firefox won't let malicious javascript take over your system. It lets vendors release closed source software that would never be included in your distro's repos. These are all things that may not benefit you, but in theory they'll benefit enough people that it's worth it.
I've also moved onto NixOS so don't use either one anyways. I think Nix or something like it is the future, even if you're running a more traditional distro, though that might just be misplaced optimism, see the success of worse is better.
Trademark law is actually pretty useful. I say this as someone who is generally quite anti-IP. If you really want to not involve trademarks, just don't enforce it, and you'll lose any trademarks you've got afaik (IANAL, this is not legal advice etc).
What exactly is your worry here? Imagine you've started your project with distinct branding of Foo, and someone comes in and does something you really don't like. Maybe it's adding a gaping security hole in the name of adding a "feature". Maybe it's saying "this project is for Nazis only". The traditional response in open source is to say "fine, you do whatever you want, but create your own fork in a way that won't confuse people". IMO that's fair and square. What happens though when your project Foo gets a bunch of complaints because someone created a "foo" package that secretly replaces all of your keyboard input with swastikas? Trademark lets you say "don't name your package foo, because it's confusing to us non-Nazis".
It's possible and I've done it, but you have to manually bridge each room, and keep the bridges in sync if you ever add/remove channels. There's a github issue for bridging a discord server as a space in matrix that would do that automatically, but there hasn't really been any activity on it:
"Stick to the source" doesn't mean "show every line on film". It means things like "don't shoehorn in this random-ass Warder that isn't in the books and nobody cares about" or "don't make up a dead wife for Perrin that adds nothing to the plot". And that's not getting into things that they almost did, like "Yeah, it's cool if Moiraine murders the ferryman in direct violation of the Three Oaths".
Sorry, the show was trash. It had a rich and complex world to draw from, and fucked it up hard. Just awful writing.
Yeah, I'd be worried about Apple if they ever got serious about gaming other than mobile games. Netflix and Amazon are medium concerns, though there's a good chance they'd go for mobile games for any sort of gaming push. Google just lost any trust they ever might've had with game developers by killing off Stadia.
F-droid is good like the other comment suggested. Aurora store is good for anything not available on F-droid.
One thing you can do is track what network connections apps are making with something like https://f-droid.org/packages/com.emanuelef.remote_capture/. It won't help if the OS really wants to do malicious things, but you can monitor your apps at least
If you're not using a custom ROM, you're leaking info like a sieve to OnePlus. I moved to LineageOS because the default OS was sending every app you opened and when to the mothership. Even if they've stopped that, they've got every incentive to suck you dry, and you'll spend much more time fighting your OS than if you just switch to a different one.
Definitely my wife. She likes to remind me though that I shouldn't just rely on her, and should socialize more. When one's spouse dies, men tend to die quite quickly after their wife dies, because men aren't good at making new friends or keeping up with existing ones over time. Women tend to be much better at both of those. Kind of macabre, but she's not wrong.
Have you used either of them before and have opinions on them vs HA?