Yes, it is. You should not copy from other maps (satellite imagery is okay as long as the license of the imagery allows it, for example Bing).

I'd classify that as under "less usable UI". There's two different concepts in interface design: utility (i.e. can it do what you need it to) and usability (i.e. how easy and effective to use is it).

With utility/"less functionality" I was thinking about people saying they have to still open Control Panel because the "new" Settings still can't do everything Control Panel can do after what, 12 years?

That probably means it was silently cutting off the password until now. Cursed, reminds me of the original unix crypt() which I think did the same.

Set to stretch for the extra crusty look (and because it was cut off otherwise).

All this theater makes it look like a lot of their security is dependent on App Store verification. I hope it isn't.

From the readme, it uses its own index:

Fully independent search index.

Also here's a related discussion: https://github.com/StractOrg/stract/discussions/136

I wonder what'll come first, this or RCS on iOS?

group chats will come years down the line

Oh come on. (Though that's fair enough, since coordinating groups including users from different services is likely a lot harder to get right.)

"closed by stalebot"

Safari is great. Quick Look, syncing tab groups, good touchpad navigation, non janky UI and probably more are my reasons for using it. I just wish it was possible to have shared bookmarks with Firefox which I use on Linux (or have an actual Linux port of it even but that's even less going to happen)

My boldest claim is that Flatpak is going to kill off the necessity for RPMs, Debs, APKs, etc. for most end-users.

No it isn't, until you can build a Linux system on top of only Flatpak. And guess what you have then? Yet another distro using a different packaging system with its own opinions, just like the rest of them. And there will still be other packaging systems because not everyone will agree with how it does things. Especially once developers start including questionable code in their Flatpak packages, because nobody is there to stop them, which distro maintainers are going to strip out in distro packages because it's harmful to users.

There’s no issue sharing boot partitions unless you use Grub. (Please stop using Grub)