Yeah. It was maybe funny the first time, it certainly wasn't funny any more the 367392th time, and by now, it's just a stupid thing to say IMHO.

Sure you can, if you get the right mix of "not my job" and (presumably) racism in the judiciary system.

Sadly I only have a German link, I didn't find a good English source on the go, so you'll translate it yourself. But it's the public broadcaster, so as centrist/"government-aligned" as you'll get.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/bgh-rassismus-mord-100.html

Just the other day I read a news article about a revision process here, where a guy with more neo-nazi dog whistles than SiegfriedsGermanShepardShop88.com shot an asylum seeker in the head, cut his body apart, wrapped the pieces in barbed wire and dumped them in the river... and only got <7 years for manslaughter, since the first judge found that the guy may be racist, but the target had light skin, therefore it couldn't have been a racially motivated murder.

...yeah.

Classic US capitalism: Take a product, triple the price, and then offer a generous 50% discount if you sign up on unfavourable terms.

But yeah, I guess I am preaching to the choir here.

I can only assume she spoke from experience

They live in a world where 700 million people are currently starving. Do you think you care about the washing machines if your children have nothing to eat?

$ sudo pagan ritual
sudo: pagan: command not found

PS: I am appropriately sad that I am a person that knows linux and not a person that visits moonlit naked dancing rituals. Meh, you can't have it all.

Imagine the Brits actually using spice

how it punishes ~~gender~~ non-conformity

Fit the mold or die. Always the same.

Get a nice cup of tea and calm down. I literally never said or implied any of that. Why do you feel that you need to personally attack me in particular?

All I said was that a supposedly easy topic turned into reading a lot of obscure code and papers which weren't really my field at the time.

For the record, I am well aware that the state of embedded system security is an absolute joke and I'm waiting for the day when it all finally halts and catches fire.

But that was just not the topic of this work. My work was efficient memory management under a lot of (specific) constraints, not memory safety.

Also, the root problem is NP-hard, so good luck finding a universal solution that works within real-life resource (chip space, power, price...) limits.

Except that the degree I did this for was in electrical engineering :(

You are literally describing the idea of Debian. Yes, stable is old, but that is the whole purpose. You get (mostly) security updates only for a few years. No big updates, no surprises. Great for stuff like company PCs, servers, and other systems you want to just work™ with minimal admin work.

And testing is, well, for testing. Ironing out bugs and preparing the next stable. Although what you describes sounds more like unstable, the one where they explicitly say that they will break stuff to try out other stuff.

So, everything works as intended and advertised here. If you want a different approach to stability, I guess you will have to use a different distro, sorry.

I guess when you last tried it, it was at a time when a new stable came out, so testing was more or less equal to stable.

About the firefox: It ships Firefox ESR these days, meaning you get an older, less often updated tested firefox (with security updates, of course). Again, this is the whole point. Less updates, less admin work, more time to find and fix bugs. Remember the whole Quantum add-on mess, for example?

As others have said, you can install other versions of firefox (like the "normal" one) via flatpak, snap... nowadays. The same goes for other software, where you would need the newest and shiniest version sooner. I'm using debian on my work/uni laptop and a bunch of servers, and it works pretty well for me.