Why is it so pervasive? And why does some of it seem to be ignored for literal years?

Considering that you know that these problems have not yet been fixed, you must still be using these products despite these problems not yet being fixed and there's your answer: What would the motivation be to fix problems that aren't severe enough to make you stop using the product?

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Casablanca

Bitwarden / Vaultwarden, no other password manager I've tried before has really worked for me.

Laika!

Everybody should get carnival.

It's now been 18 years since the last time an employer paid me to write assembly, but it's only been a year or so since the last time I had to read assembly at work (in order to verify what the compiler really was doing).

Now you made me curious: Why do you know that someone named "MrBeast" exists and why does it interest you who this person is?

Answer to the bonus question: http://mutt.org/

This blog post contains some information about how and where the Signal server side infrastructure is hosted:

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

Incompetence didn't go anywhere.

Now that's certainly true, but the beauty of open source software is that we can fix bugs when we encounter them.

We have Unicode these days: blåhaj

Hansjörg Wyss

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When I finally learned about Pocket just a few years ago it surprised me greatly that I didn't know about it before and now I use it daily:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_%28service%29

Distract me with food and drink.

While I don't know what exactly you mean by sysadmin, it sounds to me as if you'd be better at setting up (and maintaining) CI/CD than most normal developers and that's something that'd be very valuable to lots of projects out there.

Your question would be much easier to answer if you explained what it is that this ShareX thing does that you want to do.

As it apparently doesn't exist for Linux, or else you wouldn't have asked, it seems safe to assume that most Linux users aren't familiar with it.

If you don't actually have an opinion, just go with the default, ext4 really is a very good file system, but if you want to have an opinion and not go with the default, zfs is truly a fantastic file system.