oh yes that makes a lot of sense for server stuff. I imagine that may be quite useful for general use & maintenance too.

I’m too caught up thinking of consumer stuff.

EU Regulations are directly applicable to all member states, so its not needed to transpose those into domestic law for them to be used. Some countries’ constitutional setup mess with this(like the uk eh pre-brexit I guess), but in general regulations are as important if not more than domestic law.

Directives can be directly used in domestic courts but only under certain conditions. The defendant/respondant needs to be a public body and the transposition deadline must have passed. Its basicly ‘you failed to implement it in time — tough’. Also if they’re not implemented correctly. But in general yes, they’re only instructions for the members to pass domestic legislation.

I think even on a technicality both are law. Sorry if this was a bit padantic.

oh and yes I’m not aware of any EU legislation on admissibility of evidence. But, not really my area :/ I think there have been proposals for cross-border stuff but can’t remember what became of that. If you know any in force i’d be interested in reading that? thanks

I’m intrigued how that would work with some styles of plug that disconnect before coming out of the socket like the uk type-G plugs. Unless they’re not touching the socket itself and connecting somewhere else? I have no idea, i’m not an electrician.

KDE connect is amazing, I’ve used it way more than I thought I would.

In this case I think its probably a hallucination, but in the future people are absolouitly going to try optimising for ai search. At this point, it seems a natural progression for businesses doing seo(search engine optimisation).

How blatently catfishy that would be i’m not sure…doing it outright like that I don’t think would be as effective. Especially with FOSS stuff, the market for people looking for that and won’t check is unfortunately quite small.

If you want something that looks different you wanna find a different desktop environment(DE), most of them are avalible on most distros. I’d pick a distro then a DE that they offer. You could try these DEs you haven’t already tested:

• Cosmic, think tilling + gnome-like interface. It softens the learning curve for a tilling WM a lot if you’ve got other options. Fedora has a spin with this in if you liked fedora.
• Budgie but can be quite similar to others
• MXLinux with Fluxbox could be an interesting choice, its usually used on low end devices but its pretty snappy on anything else. Or Fluxbox on any other distro but MX is the only thing I can think of with it as an install option.
• If you don’t mind something older, you could look at CDE or NsCDE, although I can’t remember how involved the install process is.

Other than that, your options for non-tranditional desktop environments are probably just other tilling ones(i3, hyprland, ect) or scrolling(like niri). Or customising one of the others, KDE can be very flexible for that. You’ve gone through a lot of the main ones.

As for distros, there’s a lot, most will have the same set of desktop environments though. So, the same look and feel one you get past the install and package management etc…

If you don’t mind going outside linux land, haiku can be fun. Completely different OS though…