I don't think a Mozilla VPN nor Monitor could get Firefox income. When it comes to VPN's I'm more trusting of a VPN-first company, and Monitor is something I've never even heard of.
Don't know how blocking adblockers would get Mozilla more money.
The PM Is not the kind of person to sell out Australia for the gambling industry. Labor as a party is beholden to the gambling industry because money talks in Australian politics. Sure they did pass political donation reform, but the press is beholden to advertisers and so the advertisers have a lot of influence in the press.
I'm starting to question whether the free press should even exist, or can exist under capitalism.
Advertisements are a thing where you can turn them off and basically suffer none of the negative externalities (escaping the tracking is a LOT harder). There's no real reason to form a movement over a basically solved issue.
Seems decent. Presumably has the Windows shortcut scheme, seems theme-able, though that it has sessions and tabs makes it a bit too bloated to really be the same as Notepad.
I used both Notepad and Notepad++ on Windows, then changed to Linux Mint and used the GNOME text editor which was the perfect middle-ground. Then I changed to KDE and I got hit with the abomination that is Kate.
You open it you're greeted with a list of options instead of a blank file ready to use. When you open it again you'll have 10 open tabs from previous sessions. On the left side you get multiple buttons with coding features ... and I think most KDE users aren't programmers. At the top there are dropdown menus with and most of the hundreds of options there are irrelevant to the non-programmer.
It's much better to leave these kinds of programming-centric features out of the default text editor. The programmers know how to install something better.
I'm not saying Kate shouldn't exist, nor that it shouldn't be installed by default. It just shouldn't be the default.
It's not bloated due to speed, but complexity. It has too many features to learn and things like session restore and multiple tabs means interacting with it requires more clicks or keyboard shortcuts. It's not a good substitute for Notepad or GNOME Text Editor.
OpenSUSE seems to not accept donations from ordinary users, which suggests their target is more the server side. I think a daily driver distro should probably be a daily driver distro and not a server distro.
Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn't save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.
Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.
I'm 25 and still sorting out the books I care to read. I'm overwhelmed with choice, particularly interesting works in genres that I don't find much joy in.
We'll cross that bridge when and if we come to it. Or rather we won't, but the devs behind these projects will.