They're planning on making a version where everything is a snap. Performance and usability may come later, who knows.

The goal is not always to "take control" of the whole system. A cryptolocker that makes all your files unreadable will happily run in user space.

Also, you're forgetting that windows also have UAC, and that people will happily type the admin password of their device when asked to, because they've been conditioned to not care by badly made stuff. And, while win+r is unlikely to work in most Linux DE I know about, triggering a visual prompt that ask for your password is also a thing.

There is not much difference between common Linux distro and windows as far as seizing user files with malware is concerned, aside from the fact that no website will care to try telling you "press alt+space" instead of "win+r".

There's too much US specific legal mumbo jumbo and administration terms in there for me, but seeing that there's a bit of resistance against this whole "ban books" thing is good.

If the alternative to "the nukes" is "gets steamrolled the old fashioned way" anyway, it's not really an alternative.

I'm slightly worried about the really big guns russia supposedly have, but only slightly. At this point, it's not like there's a big red "launch" button on putin's desk; it'd have to go through a few people that may have the actual big picture in their mind.

Inertia?

Hey, I've seen this manga.

Now you have a visual interpretation of the concept of a plan.

From the outside it really seems that a large amount of the USA administration is actively working against the USA's interests. Which sounds weird.

There's a ton of great small scale things we can do with machine learning, and even LLM.

Unfortunately, it seems the main usages will be crushing people down even more.

As an outsider I'm always amazed at that "land of the free" that is insistent on censoring stuff, and "home of the brave" that will run through the mud someone standing for freedom and having principles.