You answer your question yourself with

in fear of breaking something and having to reinstall (and losing something in the process)

Version upgrades are a big thing and unexpected things can happen. Would you be a happy user if the system auto updated to the next version and something truly broke? By forcing manual upgrade they can better inform users about possible unexpected things, and e.g. advice to do backups first. Thus users would be more prepared for this. Also version upgrades take a lot longer time than normal updates since it has update all packages, do other changes to the system etc.

Xrdp won’t work if there is already an active user session locally with the same user account that is trying to connect remotely.

I truly hate this. At work I’ve told everyone that if they just send a “hello” message it will be ignored. I have things to do other then going twenty rounds of “hello” before getting into the actual subject.

They didn’t change name. OpenOffice still exists. LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.

Support your local European companies.

Maybe. Though I haven’t seen anything of that sort over the years. They’ve been around quite a while and long ago they removed all ads from their platform.

We do. It’s called Romeo. No nonsense. No AI. Just people. They listen to their users.

I know others use Arabis(?) I think thats what it called.

You probably mean Anubis.

+1 for this.

People should stop using these ad and tracking apps disguised as some useful app.

Naomi’s advises are superb. Braxman’s I’d take with a hint of salt. They tend to have a point behind them though sometimes a bit light and he’s rather keen on selling his own products.

I’m using their starter lifetime plan, and everything works flawlessly. That’s a plan where you pay only once and keep it forever.

Try filen.io. Similar concept as Dropbox but zero knowledge and encrypted. you can easily share direct (expiring (so you choose so)) links to files with or without password.

Correction: Sysinternals Process Explorer was developed by Sysinternals long before MS bought them.

Bluetooth headset are quite problematic in Linux due to missing drivers, codecs and/or firmware. As an output device they tend to work but I’ve never gotten microphone functionality working on my WH-1000XM3.

In many places at least in Europe incl. where I live substance abuse is seen as a social problem first and foremost and not a criminal problem. You get support from society, like free fresh needles or safe places to use, social care and health care. Chance to get rid of the addiction and start over. Of course if it becomes a criminal problem those parts are dealt accordingly.

Wiki at least says: “It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation”.

filen.io

Let’s see where this leads. They have not managed so far to get GNU/Hurd production ready in the 35 years it’s been in development.

Also the EU voted against chat control.

They did not. It was just removed from the agenda for now.