We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible “g” followed by an audible “n” when reading “GNOME” and find it weird that the ordinary word “gnome” is pronounced with a silent “g” in English. The cognate in our first language is “Gnom”, pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.

What’s the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all devices and accesses the data. The other is a hardware standard.

no, exit codes work the other way round: 0 = success, !0 = error

Do you have a link to a source for this?

It doesn’t, but I’m curious too.

Notepad: Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code. Or if you like terminal windows: https://github.com/microsoft/edit

Paint: https://www.pinta-project.com/ seems to have Windows builds.

Calculator: https://qalculate.github.io/ is the best I know of.

your first sentence not all verbs :D

Do you only want to geotag, without editing the files any further? If yes, you can do this on the command line with exiftool or exiv2.

If you are also going to edit your photos, then AFAICT darktable preserves all EXIF data, though I am not familiar specifically with the HDR data you refer to. It allows geotagging by dragging on a map.

The same applies to all other app stores, there won’t be any to move to.

I no longer use IRC; when I did, I used KVIrc near the end, which seems to still be getting releases.

on my work computer (Windows 11), I’m pretty sure this was the default and I didn’t have to configure it to do that? I use this all the time because part of my current job is to send screenshots to people in order to verify that software is working correctly. :D

Shotcut does everything I need and tends to “just work”, better than most others. I think I tried OpenShot once or twice and it didn’t work so well, but don’t remember details.

I can think of plenty that is arguably wrong with at least the GDPR: the definition of “processing of personal data” is so broad that it can arguably cover way more than intended, and the extraterritorial effect sets a precedent that governments can regulate the Internet beyond their borders. But that is off-topic here and I’m not exactly in a mood to write essays about it…

The DMA is one of the very rare examples where it’s a good thing that governments are regulating technology. Most of the time it is a bad thing, but requiring interoperability and sideloading – it’s kind of sad that it’s necessary to solve that by regulation and market forces alone don’t work, yet here we are.

then I have good news for you: https://linuxiac.com/ladybird-browser-team-selects-swift-as-preferred-language/

also several places at which I’ve worked on business-internal software, including my current job

GitLab, I am not sure if their own installation hits all points (depends on what you define as “big tech involvement” maybe), but if you self-host it, certainly.

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Parties choose whom to nominate as ministers.

I’m not a voter in Denmark and not familiar with Danish politics; this kind of thing would certainly cause me to vote for a different party.

One could have guessed from the image in the OP. KDE 4.2 is not exactly a recent piece of software anymore.