You could compile with -march=native to get an optimised build, but its unlikely to show any benefit outside benchmarks.

They also want the safety net of the maintainers. It's cowardice really.

Honestly, I think we have way too many communities. Cull them back to a small set of fairly broad communities: Arts, Tech, Politics, etc. Once those are active enough, then start to subdivide as the sub communities grew to a sufficient size to self-sustain.

What happened instead, was people tried to create all the same communities that reddit has, without the people to sustain them, and now it looks like a ghost town.

This isnt about protecting kids, its about age verifying and de-anonymising everyone. Australia has already gone down this road, dont fall for the trap.

iPhones have locked bootloaders, and that likely will never change.

That should exactly fix the problem.

The real issue is that by default, if secure boot is enabled, you won't be able to boot up into bazzite or whatever in order to run that command.

So the user experience will be worse now, because instead of just installing and running, Linux users have to disable secure boot, boot and install their distro, run that enroll command, and then reenable secureboot. And lots of people are going to give up at step 1, and leave secureboot off.

The rationalization they have given is that legally, they may have been seeking data all along, as some jurisdictions define it extremely loosely.

For example, if you use their translation feature, they are sending the page your looking at (data) to a third party, which provides a benefit to Mozilla. Thats technically a sale in some laws, but most would agree that is acceptable given the user asked for it to happen.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.” 

I'm overall concerned with Mozilla, but not sure this is malicious yet. But definitely needs to be closely scrutinized.

Linux distros are getting mature

I think this is exactly it. Back in the early days of Fedora and Ubuntu a new release often meant major bug fixes, new software, and possibly a significant qol/usability changes and performance changes. Now, its all new versions of stable software, which all behave roughly the same. Which is exactly what you want in a daily driver OS. Stability.

Woah, what did Senegal do to deserve that?!?

And leave the laundry vacant? Better get a third.

Won't solve their problem, but they won't be your friend anymore :)

I have nothing to add, but life imitates art :D