although I’m not sure how that situation happens

Both the warning lights and the rain can be easily explained by some brain dead suit buying the wrong kind of fire suppression system because sprinklers using water are much cheaper than a system using a gaseous agent.

Had to deal with an owl stuck in a chimney once, got a bit of advice from a chimney sweep: “Bash against the chimney to make as much noise as possible, that usually gets them to leave”. Went ahead and tried it, gave the chimney a good bashing, out went the (albeit a bit soot stained) owl, sat on the rim of chimney for a bit, giving off intense stares of disapproval, and finally flew off.

The same SO₂ solution I use to sanitise my equipment. While not strictly necessary during the fermentation, as the CO₂ from the fermentation is already displacing oxygen, It prevents oxygen from getting in after the fermentation has ended.

Your mileage may vary, but it’s still possible to install some distros without those nonsensical containerised “package managers”, or to at least remove them after installation. It unfortunately takes an increasing amount of effort, especially in distros that are actively trying to push their flavour of containerised package manager. (Totally not looking at Ubuntu and Snap)

What is working in our favour here is the fragmentation, which will prevent, or at least slow down a too widespread adoption of those systems.

for security reasons.

AKA to boost sales of new devices by making old devices unusable faster by preventing the user from upgrading storage.

A basic awareness test is built into the fediverse, you have to choose an instance to sign up on in order to create an account and participate. This filters out everyone whose intellectual capacity doesn’t go further than tapping “install” in their smartphone’s app store.

I prefer quality over quantity. Spammers, advertisers, “influencers”, brainless users consumers who can’t tell the difference between an “app” and a website, and other “mainstream” phenomena can stay in their corporate internet cesspits. Their absence alone makes a platform a lot more pleasant to use.

Use an ad blocker and the traffic is of little value to them. Especially if it only goes to /r/place and doesn’t allow to create much of a profile.

It would be a shame if someone conspired to coordinate such a thing…

Politico is owned by the Axel Springer corporation, which is the German equivalent to Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate. Expect nothing but hate inciting bullshit and drivel from them.