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Given the time and effort that went into this, and the luck that one diligent person noticed, investigated and discovered what was going on before it could get further... it seems very likely to me that this has happened already in other libraries without being discovered.

My Huawei P20 Pro did this in 2018. It was fabulous, turned the OS into a mini-computer with a taskbar, desktop, icons, browser etc. It was still the best phone Ive ever owned (and I used to work at Google). It was no wonder Google killed with GSM. It was light years ahead even back then and they really hate competition.

I adore Timeshift. It has made my time on Linux so much more trouble free.

I have used Linux for 10+ years but over the I have spent hours, days and weeks trying to undo or fix little issues I introduce by tinkering around with things. Often I seem to break things at the worst times, right as I am starting to work on some new project or something that is time sensitive.

Now, I can just roll back to an earlier stable version if I don't want to spend the time right then on troubleshooting.

I've enabled this on all my family members machines and teach them to just roll back when Linux goes funky.

Well that's not worrying. /s

I am curious how long it will take for Sam to go from being perceived as a hero to a villain and then on to supervillain.

Even if they had a massive, successful and public safety team, and got alignment right (which I am highly doubtful about being possible) it is still going to happen as massive portions of white collar workers loose their jobs.

Mass protests are coming and he will be an obvious focus point for their ire.

Agreed. I remember the town hall meeting where they announced the transition to being Alphabet. My manager was flying home from the US at the time. He left a Google employee and landed an Alphabet employee. I know it was probably meaningless in any real sense, but when they dropped the Dont Be Evil motto, it was a sign that the fun times were drawing to an end.