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Then by all means keep that momentum going.
I'm just looking at this from a Dutch perspective, where Signal is seeing by far the most growth.

Yeah, but Threema has basically no momentum behind it at all at this point.
I'm putting my social capital behind the option that currently stands the most chance of beating out Whatsapp

After Trump was elected and inaugurated, Signal has finally been gaining some steam here in the Netherlands.

It's still an American company, so it's not ideal. But it's still significantly better better than letting a tech giant like Facebook have control over the most commonly used chat app.

WhatsApp needs to go and Signal is the most likely way in which we can achieve that. We can worry about the American elephant in the room later.

So they are just openly arresting political opponents now. America is really spiraling down the drain fast.

Failed wheat harvest which caused a bread shortage.
Bread was a staple food in 18th century France.

I'm not quite sure if it is similar to the rice shortage in Japan today however. When the French couldn't eat bread in the 18th century they went hungry, but when the Japanese today can't buy rice they can just buy a different carb.

Its the difference between barely scraping by on bread, and being inconvenienced by not being able to buy cheap rice.

Somehow I don't feel easy with Europe buying American gas at this point. Trump could simply shut down the gas supply on a whim just like Putin did in 2022, and then we'd have another energy crisis on our hands.

America is an unreliable trading partner.

Instead we should be doing everything in our power to build down our gas and oil dependencies as fast as possible. And in the meantime we should be very picky about who we buy gas from.

Lobbying is just a group of people representing the interest of that group to their representatives. A gay rights lobby group would also be lobbying the government if they advocate for better rights for LGBT people.

The issue isn't so much the fact that lobbying is a thing, but rather the methods (read: bribery) that some lobby groups engage in.

I have 24TB on my own server, and another 1TB (split halfway between me and my boyfriend) that comes with a Proton account I pay for.

The 24TB was about € 200 per drive, built out over several years.
3 x 8 TB + 1 x 8 TB for parity makes about € 800 total. The other hardware was leftover computer hardware I had lying around, so in total I think the server cost me about € 1000,-

I pay € 180 / year for Proton for two people, which is € 7,50 per person per month. That includes a mail server, 1 TB cloud storage (500 GB per person), VPN, password manager, etc.

It's a French initiative, so it makes sense that their share of the vote is outsized compared to the other countries.
The organizers are likely not sitting idle at home.

I've been keeping an eye on it off and on over the past year. The sudden speed at which the petition is going has gotten me quite hopeful that we might make the threshold of 1.000.000 signatures.

Yesterday we were averaging about 12.000 signatures per hour.
Currently we seem to be averaging about 20.000 signatures per hour.

It's getting so much attention that the website appears to be suffering a natural DDOS 🏳️‍🌈

The problem in this case is the Google Play Store, not Android.

Google is blocking Nextcloud from updating their app on the Play Store unless they remove this vital permission. But nothing is stopping Nextcloud from making their app available on third party app stores with the approriate permissions.

If you download the app from F-Droid instead, it should work correctly.

That is not to say that what Google is doing isn't monopolistic. I'm just pointing out that you can bypass this restriction by not using their app store.

Would be a noble goal to bring obligations closer to something voluntarily taken and not just obedience.

It may be noble, but it is also a bit out of touch with reality.

When you participate in society (even if it is something as simple as buying groceries at the supermarket) then you have to follow the rules of that society that you participate in. We have decided together as a society, democratically, what those rules are.

You can't then say "I'm not playing by the rules" and expect people to just accept that.

Edit: Fixed a typo

This group calls themselves Reichsbürger, and from my understanding it's essentially equivalent to Sovereign Citizens in the US.

Installing a monarchy may be the stated goal, but it is not in itself the reason why people join this group. Rather it is about illegitimizing the current government so that they (supposedly) do not hold power over you.

There are various reasons why people would join a group like that, but a common one seems to be that they are running away from the consequences of their actions in one form or another. If the government is illegitimate, then the pain their society imposes (e.g. unpaid fines, mounting debt, etc) is also illegitimate.

The reason for the government's illegitimacy is irrelevant. All that matters is that the state should be illegitimized in some way.

That's how USA Today learned about it.
Hegseth accidentally added a journalist of theirs to that group chat

I'm paying €10,50 / month for unlimited calling / 500 texts / 18 GB of data. Thats is with Simpel in the Netherlands.

Texting is not relevant here since everyone uses WhatsApp (and more recently Signal), and I've never actually used more then 18GB of data in a month.

Hopefully there will soon be a fix for this, because like you said, it really sounds like something that should be able to be fixed relatively easily, lol.

I have one final question, which you might know perhaps.. Where would one go to make feature requests for Linux itself? If I quickly Google this I find places to make feature requests for specific distros, but not for Linux as a whole.

I ask because I suspect this issue is more fundamental to Linux itself, rather than the individual distros I tried.

Edit: Or maybe I am misunderstanding, and this is something that does need to be brought up with the distros

Wow! Thank you for going through the effort of figuring out whether there was a solution for me. I really appreciate it!

And yeah.. I could probably type all the characters I need to type through workarounds. But my problem is that I don't think I should have to relearn how to type in order to switch to Linux. It's a relatively niche issue I ran into, but I'm clearly not the only one running into it.

Which is a shame because I do want Linux to be more widely used than it is currently, and I think small annoyances like this are part of what is holding it back. It makes it more of a hassle to overcome the hurdle of switching OS.

The issue I'm talking about is unrelated to keyboard layouts. It's how deadkeys are implemented.

The deadkeys are seemingly defined separately from keyboard layout, and there is no way that I could find to redefine them other than either turning dead key behaviour on or off in the keyboard layouts

So the keyboard I'm using is US International (with deadkeys), which is the standard keyboard for the Netherlands.

Certain key combinations should create an accented character, but certain other key combinations should simply print the accent followed by the character. Typing this way is essentially muscle memory for me, so if it deviates from what I'm used to it really trips me up badly.

Example:

', followed by e should type é (which Linux did correctly)
', followed by m should type 'm (where Linux typed an accented ḿ)
', followed by c should type ç (where Linux typed an accented ć)
', followed by ' should type '' (where Linux typed ')
', followed by [space] should type ' (which Linux did correctly)

I checked several forums, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to change this behaviour in Linux. Dead key behaviour is seemingly consistent between keyboard layouts, and it can only either be on or off?

Edit: It shouldn't even be that complex of an improvement to the OS.
If they were to add a defintion as to how deadkeys are supposed to work as part of the keyboard layout file, this wouldn't be an issue. I could just make my own "US Intl. with Dead Keys (NL)" layout and it would be fine.

When the keyboard doesn't work correctly, that is not "just how it is" though..

I'm not going to relearn how to type accents for the sake of switching to Linux. The OS should just work correctly out of the box, or at the very least give me the option to fix the behaviour without having to go 20 internet forums deep and delving into the depths of the system files.

I tried Mint for four days before getting fed up with things not working as they should, went back to Windows for a week and then tried Fedora for two days again running into very similar issues.