Sweet! Tom Cashman might just be my favourite assistant. You can clearly tell how much fun he's having with the job!

No, there are good reasons for it. A lot of people get confused between SUSE and openSUSE offerings. Often SUSE customers show up in openSUSE places, because they believe that it's a place they can get official support. And I'm sure a lot of potential customers might get confused in the same way too.
On the flip side there are also a lot of openSUSE (adjacent) users who think SUSE is (secretly or not) making openSUSE development decisions or think they can dand SUSE to do that and that.

So there are some good reasons to consider a rebranding, but also some speaking against it, like the less of recognition it might entail.

I'm always surprised that this kind of rhetoric works. If the EU were such a big bully, nothing would stop Hungary from just leaving. Like, at some point you'd have to ask yourself why a supposedly competent and well-meaning leader keeps you in a relarionship with an entity that allegedly only wants the worst for you.

The headline seems to be a but misleading though. Seems like it's 1000x more efficient than pure barium titanate would be.
Also seems like it has the potential to be much ore efficient than conventional silicon based panels, but not by a factor of 1000.

Now to some, dare I say most, this is a perfectly reasonable position for Andreas to be in.

If wanting different pronouns/gender neutral language is political, then wanting to stick to "he" etc inherently is political, too. It's completely incomprehensible to say that "position X" is political, but "position anti-X" is somehow not.

Friendly PSA that there is also StreetComplete ExpertEdition (on F-Droid only) which has more tasks and crucially allows you to directly edit tags. Very recommended if you know what you're doing and have some more familiarity with OSM.
https://github.com/Helium314/SCEE

And you really think, people who are willing and able to buy enterprise support for their Linux distro get confused by the naming?

No, I don't think that. I *know* that because I'm active in the community.

OpenSuse is essentially free marketing for SUSE, nobody would know them otherwise.

That is absolute nonsense. SUSE mostly serves large enterprise customers. That's an entirely different demographic from people who care about Desktop Linux or setting up a home server.

Edit:

its market share is relatively small compared to Red Hat or Canonical.

I'm pretty sure SUSE is bigger than Canonical.

Editedit: According to wikipedia SUSE's revenue is about twice as high as Canonical's

Taking enshittification to a new level.

It's not. Human rights are only human rights if they are universal and even criminals deserve to be protected from abuse and torture.

Plus, it doesn't actually solve anything. It just moves the problem elsewhere and will most likely have involved the German government directly giving money to the Taliban regime.

You don't need vote filtering. You need counselling/therapy. This is not intended as a dig and just my opinion obviously.

Merkel herself was a bit of an outlier for the CDU though. Most of the party is and has been more conservative/further right than her.

And what exactly do you call navigating different opinions and proposals for actions in a community setting? That is LITERALLY politics.

Yes, people can have different opinions on what is political, but that doesn't mean those are equally valid. Politics has a clear definition. People can have different opinions in politics, but not really about what is politics.

From wiki:
"Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status."

Saying they don't want to do politics, while making a literal political decision is just completely contradictory. The minute the project turned into a community project,.it turned into a political project both by definition and necessity.

To be fair, putting him on the frontline risking his life for a just cause is about the best use you can make of a Nazi. He gets to do what he's trained for his whe life and we don't have to mourn the loss of a beloved community member if he dies.

That's exactly what OP is doing here.

Famously(?) worn by Alan Davies on Taskmaster Series 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOkSpwqyVQA

Generell verstehe ich deine Punkte und würde dem insgesamt nicht groß widersprechen wollen. Aber das mit dem Fleischersatz als zentralem Beispiel finde ich etwas komisch, weil ich nicht verstehe, wie das hinhaut. Wenn man so Sachen wie "veganes Fleisch/Würstchen" oder Tofu im Biomarkt kauft, vielleicht. Aber ansonsten bist du doch einfach mit Linsen, Bohnen, Erbsen auch pro Gramm Protein deutlich günstiger unterwegs als mit Fleisch.

I felt as though someone intentionally was trying to push me out of my own friend group and no one cared, therefore in my eyes it felt like people were okay for me to be pushed out.

Well that one obviously isn't true. Because as you said yourself:

So I stopped talking to everyone altogether, some people DM me here and there, one person has said “other person was in the wrong”

and

Anyways recently people have been trying to get me to hang out again

I'd say it's non-mouse focused. Heavy touch or keyboard focus work pretty well, but the mouse really isn't intended as anything more than a helper.

But, it sounds to me like it's more adapted for smaller devices and IoT, like the Steam Deck or similar handheld devices.

There are plenty of desktop focused immutable Linux distros. With Fedora Sikverblue/Kinoite probably being the most prominent one, but there are also Vanilla OS, the ublue distros and the one I'm personally using, (openSUSE) Aeon. NixOS technically counts too I think, but that one has it's whole own philosophy/structure that extends way beyond just being immutable

What were the pros and cons according to you?

Pros: increased stability/less risk of breakage, sepaeation of base system/apps that will be more intuitive to many non-Linux users, (Flatpak) apps tend to always be the newest version
Cons: still some smaller pain points around app integration, some flatpaks might have some features that don't fully work or you might need to change a permission (this has gotten a lot better already though), less suited for tinkerers

That could be a branding strategy, I guess, but the community project behind it will still need a name of some kind obviously. Unless they only want to show up at conferences/have a website url etc as "the project whose name shall not be mentioned".