Videos that stop at 1080p often have an increased bitrate option with Premium (no idea how YT decides when to offer it). 1440p and 4k are available to all without Premium.

Are there any real advantages?

1. No 5 seconds forced delay when using ad blockers

2. Higher bitrates available

3. Ad blockers don’t work on Chromecast, other solutions don’t offer easy casting from the phone app

4. Better value than audio only services like Spotify

How is this legal?

In a world where Meta got caught torrenting entire book archives, anything goes these days.

But strictly speaking, it’s not because it’s based on decompilation and not a clean room reimplementation of the engine. That’s like using a translation service to translate a copyrighted book into another language and then manually iron out the kinks. But in a world of mass piracy for LLM training, nobody gives a shit about such little projects any longer.

Well, of course. All notification contents go through Apple’s servers (or Google’s in case of Android).

Certain people in Iran also can access the internet to hack Western infrastructure, etc.

By your logic Iran’s internet hasn’t been blacked out either because politicians there can still post announcements on Twitter.

A nationwide intranet isn’t internet.

Pretty sure North Korea does not have internet.

Oh good, now you can watch ads on your giant tv when your console or PC game ends because the TV will know.

You connect TVs to WiFi?

the Mandriva family (OpenMandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS, ROSA, ALT Linux)

Originally based on Red Hat Linux and the forks are obviously not built from the ground up either.

In fact, any fork of anything is just outright against the premise of OP.

Based on Ubuntu

So not fitting the “built from the ground up” criteria asked by OP.

Just stretch out your arms and tell the Cassowary to stay calm. Always works!

They already explained why they didn’t.

Having a sense of humor helps.

True and people without any shouldn’t attempt April Fool jokes

Easy fix: Don’t fork OnlyOffice. Start your own office suite and just happen to port over some parts of the code base that do not include any logos. Same, same but different.

I honestly don’t under understand why Systemd’s addition of an optional age verification module was such a big deal. This is a smart move that helps manage risk while having no real impact on anything.

Drama queens love to freak out about optional nothingburgers. It’s their entire personality.

They can simply say on their download pages that residents of Brazil and California are not allowed to use their OS.

I’m here wondering if it will be a good time to switch over to Devuan

LOL. Do you really think that because that thing is supported for commercial distros like RHEL, it would have any impact on the Debians etc. of the world?

Is Valve’s update cycle really worse than what the typical Android device gets?

No but also yes. No because Valve supports their hardware extremely long but also yes because several design decisions of SteamOS as seen on Steam Deck weren’t made with data security in mind. Storage isn’t encrypted, Game Mode has only a simple PIN lock but the underlying Linux account “deck” has no password, so Desktop Mode (=KDE Plasma) cannot be locked out of the box.

That said, Valve will release a Linux ARM version of Steam later this year, so there is no need to solely rely on Valve for a Linux phone that runs Steam and its games.

It’s unmaintained the same way Debian would be. It’s a community repository.

It’s a “community” repository that’s enabled by default and subject to Ubuntu’s draconian version number freeze rules. Fedora isn’t. I already explained that. I suggest you scroll back up and read what I wrote and try to understand what I wrote.

Wrong.

I’m 100% right.

You can skip Pro and get the same experience you get with any other distro.

And that’s where you are wrong. Fedora etc. ship package updates for the entire support cycle. Ubuntu only for Main. Universe is left without formal support. Fedora etc. have no problems shipping updates. I already explained it to you. You just don’t understand.