It is not always easy for consumers in any country to tell whether a product contains added sugar, and how much is present, based on nutritional information printed on packaging alone.

That seems like the problem that actually needs solving.

It’s concerning that you think “just buy new stuff” is reasonable and that Windows should only work on new hardware out of the box.

Good guy GOG wants you to actually own your own games, forever.

It reads like they have their family held hostage.

Microsoft are deep into the government with exchange and Active Directory with most being migrated to Microsoft365 and Azure.

Add in MS Teams, SharePoint, MS SQL, 30 years of business rules living in old excel macros that ends up running the entire company.

Windows enterprise licences would be a tiny part of their spend and far too costly to mitigate away from. Most large corporations are virtualising old windows version just to keep their existing legacy apps runnings.

I feel arch users would be far more popular if this were true.

Mozilla Thunderbird is free and open source (foss)

My understanding is darktable is the foss Lightroom.

https://www.darktable.org/

Incorrect dukk. Firefox isn’t built on Chromium, Firefox predates google let alone Google chromium.

Shorten is the legitimate good guy in this saga, he started fighting this in opposition and has been against it from the start.

Which is exactly how Twitter started out before it became a mainstream marketing channel.

It’s interesting to me that you point out how far we have fallen as a society, yet your suggested solution is free childcare to enable more of the same.

As humans shouldn’t we be asking harder questions? Why is our entire family structure working longer and harder for less?

The change we need is single income households being viable again and our elderly being in a position to retire.