Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.

They don’t require anything. You can leave that empty or just put John Doe. All that is required for an account on a Linux system is a username and a password.

“Slippery slope” does not apply here

Most definitely applies here. Who determines what is not appropriate for children? Today it’s sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Tomorrow it could be helpful information related to LGBTQ+++ subjects. And so on.

Computer systems have had parental controls forever already. They are the once that should be used. Not to implement another expansion of surveillance.

About 20 years ago it was terrorism. Now it’s “think of the children” as terrorism went out of fashion as a reason to implement fascist surveillance state.

Not all built-in apps had that option but for everything else you can.

block them from accessing the Internet on non-GrapheneOS phones

This is an important feature in GrapheneOS. You can deny network access for any app.

Evolution is a Gnome software so you’ll probably need to install gnome-keyring.

I use session restore with my KDE and most windows end up back to the workspace they were. It’s somewhat annoying that not all go back to where they were but I’ve learned to live with it. May or may not have anything to do with kwin rules as I’ve not manually set anything.

You can always use virustotal if you want extra malware checks.

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.

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.

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.

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

filen.io