The planet money podcast has had several episodes where this has come up. I think the last one about the resistance to free filing tools is a good one

Because not only did he not make the above distinction, the comments try to devalue anyone with that diagnosis.

This is a good steel man response, very much like Facebook posts I have seen lately. It’s really sad how much the right has abandoned listening to experts and just assuming we can apply “common sense” answers to fix problems that are complicated.

This aligns with what I have heard from folks I know in that world. Fear motivated by exaggerating one off and isolated incidents. The information silos in the conservative world (especially news) is frightening.

I had thought that they were going after more retirement benefits, only thing I saw in the article was a $ 5k 401k contribution. The comments didn’t make sense calling this deal something that would help them to “retire with dignity” whatever that means. Would have been cool (but next to impossible) if they would have gotten back some sort of pension.

OpenAudible - because Audible cycles books in and out of the membership too fast and sometimes their phone app sucks.

I had instability in kde when an upgrade moved me away from the proprietary Nvidia drivers. Might be worth checking that.

Wish I could try Wayland, can’t seem to get it to load. Fortunately when they pushed the update of Wayland as default they didn’t remove x11 support. Still been pretty happy with kde neon for the last few years

Exactly the same story for me, the free Linux cost didn’t hurt either.