It’s not really an issue for the end user. But it’s basically made for companies to take advantage of free hobbyist developers without needing to give anything back in return.

So if you’re the kind of person who runs to foss software to get away from corporate tech bull, having a license that benefits companies more than users just kinda feels scummy.

My ex had one of them RGB everything rainbow gamer PCs.

Windows would auto boot to update in the middle of the night and turn the whole apartment into a rave…

The only time I did was WAY back during the launch of Firefox Quantum. It was a huge back-end change pushed overnight to the main branch, breaking most extensions including one I similar couldn’t live without at the time. I even switched to PaleMoon for a while until everything sorted itself out.

Been using LibreWolf for almost 2 years now which does a good job at gutting all the parts of Firefox updates I don’t want.

Lately it’s been sifting through IMDB collections to find movies to watch.

That or I check the groups I’m in to see what I’m late to the party on now.

Welcome to the Club!

I had a similar issue around 2 years ago now on POP where my bootloader didn’t even show up in the bios anymore.

If you still have the a USB with the live boot of POP you can use it to recover your files n stuff.

https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-recovery

qBittorrent! You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.

Was using Deluge before on Windows and for a while when I switched to Linux but started having issues with it.

I was surprised how many co-workers my age and younger (GenZ) don’t even own a laptop let alone a desktop.

I know it was becoming more niche, but didn’t expect it to happen that fast…