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Kubuntu is awesome! Using an LTS version which provides a solid base and then using the kubuntu-backports PPA to get the latest KDE Plasma stuff works great in my experience.

Canonical has provided security updates just for the packages in "main" and the security updates for the rest were provided by community maintainers on a best-effort basis. With Ubuntu Pro, Canonical now provides security updates for more packages than it used to, otherwise.

Disclaimer: I work for Canonical but have nothing to do with the distribution or Ubuntu Pro. And I am not speaking on behalf of the company.

> Lineage has the proprietary Google Play Services

Lineage doesn't ship the proprietary Google Apps. It is up to the users to flash it after flashing Lineage

All the advertisements about the latest Nexus phones have always been about them being the first to get the latest and greatest uodates and yet it took them just 1 year to ditch those who bought Nexus phones last year. This is clearly a bait and switch imo.

I was an idiot and I am not proud of that! I was thinking like "I need insulin when I eat food. So since I am not eating, I don't need insulin and everything will be fine" :-(

I fasted for a day when fighting with my parents. Worst thing to do since I am a Type-1 diabetic and ended up with Diabetic Ketoacidosis the next day and a near-death experience :-(

Fasting is not for everyone!

Imho, this looks like a deliberate ploy to get most Windows computers to upgrade to Windows 10 so that they can force the App Store model in order to get the 30% cut.

I am tempted to believe that the pharma companies are more interested in keeping their recurring revenues from diabetics than find a one time cure.

Here in India, the medicines and tools for a diabetic (particulary IDDM) is still prohibitively expensive for most people who have it. The prices of insulins and testing strips have increased by 10% or so many times in the past couple of years. Things like CGMS, insulin pumps are not affordable even to well-off people like me.

There has always been news of research from various government and government aided organizations towards the development of low cost testing strips (at about Rs. 5 per strip compared to Rs. 17 and above for the existing products) but nothing has come out as a product. What's worse is an unknown healthcare company has acquired the technology from ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) a year back and till now their only product is a low cost sanitary napkin. Wouldn't be surprised of the involvement of the big pharma companies in the delay.

All this said, at least India doesn't have an insurance system like in the US which has pushed up the prices repeatedly to help the insurance companies (imho an unwanted middleman in most cases) make more and more money.

I am not very optimistic about the future.

The original TRAI paper for this Net Neutrality discussion looked exactly like if it had been written by someone from the telcos. This repeated "call for feedback" attempts made by TRAI seems to be a ploy to ignore the 1.5 M+ responses supporting net neutrality that they had received during the April consultation.

If Facebook can (ab)use their monopoly and userbase to trick people into supporting Free Basics, just imagine what they will do when they monopolize access to Internet in India for most of the people? Scary!

If Facebook is bringing in Free Basics only to get those who do not have internet access to get some, then why is Free Basics provided even to customers with data packs? I have seen in person and verified that it is the case.

Facebook has reportedly spent more than $20 million to advertise, push and lobby for Free Basics. Just imagine if that money was used to provide some MB of unrestricted internet usage to people. A lot of people would have benefited. That also begs the question, how is Facebook going to recoup that? And every answer to that question is bad for those poor users that Facebook is connecting to their own walled garden impersonating internet.

Also if people can afford to get phones that support connecting to internet (these days almost all such phones are smartphones and prices start from Rs. 2000 onwards), can they not afford Rs.100 odd to get a reasonable amount of 2G data to access the actual internet? Imho most of them can.

Awesome! This was the only way forward for a user-centric web browser like Firefox. Glad to see that they have listened to user feedback (and uproar) and backed down.

The "Hello" button automatically came back to the toolbar (I had removed it) after the Firefox 42 upgrade. Thought that it could be accidental and checked on a different machine, the same thing happened.