Yes, your 3rd party email client uses your username and password to SIGN IN, which constitutes as signing in for Google.

This is my Linux Mint Cinnamon dressed up as Windows XP. How much more Windowsy would you like it ;-)

"Ge zijt a foorwijf"

You are a fair bitch. People working the carnival / fair scene don't have the best of reputation. In Belgium we had a song about this phenomenon and the real fair people were all kinds of angry about the stereotype. The thing is about stereotypes: it really has a base in reality.

No matter how much you invest you're time and effort for your job: You are expendable, and the only people who will know you were absent from home because of work 20 years later, will be your kids.

It should have fallen on her manager to handle, and she should have put her foot down on that.

Head of HR is Linus' wife. Yes, it is that bad. Even telling her manager, would have netted zero result.

and offers a true desktop experience in a handheld.

Awkwardly telling us it's an unsuited Windows 11 installation on a handheld. Would not want it on my desktop, let alone on my unwieldy handheld.

Big Macs are not a good source for sustenance. Yes, they are tasty, no just don't.

WeChat is forced / very much encouraged by the Chinese government for.... reasons. No such entity will be doing the same for the dreaded X-app, so this is going to fail spectacularly.

Because the rich make the rules, they are not going to go against their self-interests. It is not that hard to comprehend.

Duvel, Belgium's premium beer. Duvel translates to Devil, the beer most preferred by Joe Cocker and the reason he wouldn't return to Belgium because it would be the end of him. Looking back he had a point. (1944-2014)

Didn't the EU do the same shortly after Space Karen bought Twitter? I believe I saw an article around the time I started my Mastodon account.

My smelling sense went away around 2005, so I'm happy to report this question is not applicable to me. Sadly it took away some percentage of my taste too.