WaxRhetorical

Who do you think influences the masses to vote this way, and who put people like trump in the position to be elected?

Doesn't sound like it failed at its purpose in that case

I love my Cayman S! The biggest risk from what I've read is bore scoring, which can end up fairly serious. If that doesn't happen, it seems most issues are minor. Mine just passed 100k, bought it in 2023 at 70k. Enjoying every minute I spend behind that wheel!

From afar, you get the impression that suits are in charge and if there isn't already some "proof of popularity" of some sort, it won't get greenlit

I don't remember, sorry.
But that is exactly how it should be. Why are we throwing our money collectively after institutions that provide zero benefit outside of the solution they deliver? I don't imagine service providers will go away, there's no reason for some municipality of 5000 in a remote region to have their own full IT team, but if everything is open source every improvement that happens in one place can benefit somewhere else.

Fair enough, thanks for the response

I've been arguing this for a few years. Create a solid, open source ecosystem for all the things we use for-profit providers for currently. It'd be a massive gain for European governments, and governments/businesses globally to have open enterprise solutions that are maintained with significant budgets (less than what we're all paying the US now)

I'm curious, since you're already on Protonmail, why not use their VPN too?

I feel like this is unfortunately pretty likely to be misunderstood, like the original comment did

Had to look it up, it's close. Wiki says the foundations were laid in 1785, so not long after the US independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaeger_Corps_(Denmark)

in Europe you have to develop and sometimes apply for permits and licenses for each country

Honestly, EU Inc, announced at the WEF, is one of the few good things to come out of that mess. A single framework for running a business in all EU countries, meaning expansion across borders will be simplified enormously. Should allow for easier growth in the future.

There are certain sayings, phrases or slang that I may not be intimately familiar with.

This says nothing about your fluency. There are tonnes of English slang that Americans are unfamiliar with, and vice versa.
Hell, there's a lot of Singaporean English that doesn't exist in the minds of Brits and Americans, but Singaporeans are still fluent in English, it's just different from what people consider "true" English.