Competence

No. It will boot the previous kernel, but the user experience will be at least suboptimal if some packages have already been removed during the upgrade, but the upgrade stopped at some point because a downloaded package was corrupt, leaving lots of dependent packages unconfigured. In case networking doesn’t work, it’s also inconvenient to manually download the affected package on another machine and transfer it with a usb stick onto the computer to restart the upgrade.

Well, as I’m using Debian, maybe I’m a more cautious type.

If the update is successful. If there are failures in critical steps, well…

I do “;” to definitely run the shutdown after the update process exits.

If you’re able to successfully boot the machine afterwards is not your concern?

Yes, in this command one liner, the system should not power off when the update took too long.

Or is yes somehow supposed to take care of this?

No, yes is simply answering all questions asked during the update procedure (start upgrade, replace config files, restart services) with “yes”.

MSI files are actually comparable to Linux packages, from what I understand, in that the program that does the installing (and which gets root/admin permissions for that) comes with the OS itself.

Neat. I’ve always wondered why e.g. 7zip is distributed as both, MSI and exe installer. Now that makes somewhat sense to me.

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I’d say it’s more about that Linux packages aren’t (distributed as) compiled binary installers (appimages are executables, but no installers), like msi or exe installers for Windows, but (as) essentially plain archives.

The patent was published 10 years ago. It says it is withdrawn but I don’t know if we can somehow see the reason or if it was voluntarily withdrawn.

They didn’t pay the annual renewal fee:

01.08.2018 – Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2019/02]
28.08.2018 – Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: renewal fee not paid in time [2019/02]

epo.org

And the most important aspect of what makes us fast typing is not the order of the letters, but the fact that we have muscle memory to reach them once we are used to a layout.

Some of the proposed applications of the patent are vending machines and car navigation systems . For vending machines, the aspect of muscle memory is probably not very dominant and thus, an optimised layout might be beneficial. Yet, as the layout is ‘different’ than usual, people usung the vending machines might also be confused and thus, the time benefit from the novel optimal layout is probably also non existent in that use case.
For the car navigation system it’s probably beneficial. After some time you probably have internalised the location of the letters and thus can type faster. For navigation systems it’s probably not a frequent use case that the keyboard language and thus its layout is changed regularly.
For a smartphone keyboard, I agree, it’s odd if you have to search for the location of the same letter on different layouts at different places.

The patented properties are stated on the Github page:

read the related patent documentation (WO2014111963A3 and EP2946267A2) which can be recap with these three points:

1. Hexagonal key structure which means that each key is connected to SIX other keys. Not less. Not more.
2. The space key MUST be in the center of the Keybee Keyboard layout.
3. The most frequent bi-grams, tri-grams or n-grams are linked between the keys.

Yet, the European patent (EP…) is probably already withdrawn (https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2946267A2/en).

But if I’ve understood patents right; Someone else can’t patent your idea if you can prove you have had it and used it before them, right?

Yes.

I assume, the creator wants a fair share if somebody decides to use their keyboard in a proprietary software/device. The Apache license would usually permit this without compensation of the original creator.

Ghost Commander supports SFTP (“SSH-FTP”)

Actually, Elmo didn’t found Tesla.

The classic:
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/sl

But why does it say 2 - 53? Is it the due date and the bottle was manufactured in 1943?

You may also just add the LMDE repo (Faye is Bookworm, Gigi is Trixie) or the official Mozilla one and install the standard, non ESR version of Firefox from that one.

Zapp for DACH public broadcasters.

Yes, e.g. with Qemu or FEX.

I suppose it’s official, as it’s also on the Wikipedia page on WSL.