People who have spoken out against the genocidal apartheid regime are being black-bagged in the street by plainclothes officers all across the United States. The gap between the supposedly enlightened West and Russia grows smaller by the day.
My experience with Plasma is that it has lots of little visual bugs and glitches that you can usually ignore or work past. Compared to GNOME where the bugs are rare but usually disastrous.
No adblockers though. Edge for mobile does have a built-in adblocker, but there is no customizable blocklists or transparency on what is being blocked, so Microsoft could give blocklist exemptions to their own ad service while blocking Google's, for example.
At some point the Silicon Valley "hacker" class will have to reckon with the fact that they propped up guys like Musk, Zuckerberg and Thiel as "geniuses" and "disruptors", for their own personal financial gain. A tough conversation to have with the grandkids, "I didn't know they would turn out like this"...
The fact that background play is locked behind a paywall was always absurd in the first place. There's no technical explanation for why it's paywalled, Google can't play the bandwidth card because they're Google.