If the device is owned by a business, sure, IT should lock it down. If your average Joe owns his device? He should be able to break it if he wants. He owns it. This argument only serves to enrich the exploiters, not protect anyone.

And yet on Linux the advice seems to be never ever download directly from the developer

That’s just advice for making life easy for new people, because distro-packaged software is more likely to work well with the operating system. I run packages from devs, even nightly automated builds of stuff, all the time.

The actual Nazis didn’t really drop in popularity much, or rather their policies didn’t, even after those very policies resulted in much of the continent being burned down. People literally looked around at the rubble and hoped that fascists would fix things. In Italy, they stayed in power ffs.

You need strong constitutions to protect from this shit, because people will vote for their own death when they are scared.

Who got all the new wealth from increased productivity post 1980? The gays and minorities?

We are speedrunning robber-barrons through WW-II in one shot this time. What a ride. Can I get off, please?