Interestingly, Mint strips away several things that Ubuntu enforces, like their Gnome setup and Snaps entirely, removing most of the “value” added by Canonical.
More interestingly is that Linux Mint offers a Debian version, sidestepping Ubuntu completely.

It’s fine if you like Ubuntu’s default Gnome setup. That’s the point of having multiple distros. It’s fine if you like Snaps. It’s not fine to force everyone into your ecosystem or enforce your choices on others. If you don’t think that both of those things are true of Canonical, go try to install the .deb version of Firefox.

Debian has its own kernel, and security team, in fact as Ubuntu is downstream of Debian they get the full benefit of Debian’s security patches (yes Canonical maintains their own kernel, but the vast majority of other packages are pulled from Debian’s repositories), fwupd isn’t unique to Ubuntu, KDE has been combining update managers into Discover for ages, not everybody likes Gnome.
You’re saying “replicate” like these are all things Ubuntu did first and everyone else is copying them. That’s ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.

I’ve been using it for many years and I have no idea who Chris Titus is.
There’s no reason to use Ubuntu over Debian, especially since Bookworm included non-free firmware in installation media by default.

Ubuntu is Debian with lipstick so that all still applies

fn executive() {}

Same. I’ve got multiple 8bitdo products and I was still considering one, but no rumble is just weird.

It makes sense that Bilbo would run a homeserver.

Just do what I do and consistently forget to set up DDNS and also be bad at noticing when your ISP juggles your IP address.

It does that by default though?

Firefox puts inactive tabs to sleep, effectively turning them into bookmarks that reload when you switch back to them. I regularly right-click close-tabs-to-the-right over 200 tabs.

Oh shit, is “I tilled your garden with my nose” innuendo for cunnilingus? And why did seeing your post make that finally click for me.

I thought it was that their patches were merged at the same time as their names were removed from the Maintainers list

I will allow it.

The last time this came up, several people pointed out that the source mistook a parody article for genuine reporting.
This is along the same lines as those “John Cena forgot to save between the cutscene and the boss fight” headlines.

Oh hey greycat.

I read recently that the phrase “noticing patterns” is a racist dog whistle but I don’t have a firm handle on how or why.
I don’t know if dark patterns are exempt but the timing is weird.

Oh I read it as the singular, as in “a real developer’s ___”

load and come

There’s Power Over Ethernet too.

Don’t just turn your devices off when testing - - unplug them. An off computer can still respond to network requests.