Is not up to SUSE's marketing department, most of which is from the US, either. The company has a German origin, had German founders (they're all out of the company at this point though), and the company name used to be a German acronym. The correct pronunciation is the German one.
(See the update @barbara added. Lisa Sherwell actually took the effort to learn the correct pronunciation. Part of the reason why is that she was actually involved in planning the new German office of SUSE.)
That depends but many people will be familiar with the absolute basics of English pronunciation and likely recognize the word as English too, I think.
It's wrong nonetheless.
Well, "nome", with a silent G is the correct pronunciation of "gnome", as in e.g. "garden gnome".
SUSE originated in Germany, where it's just the normal pronunciation. "Suse" also pre-existed as a nickname for "Susanne" (of course, the company name was derived from an acronym which isn't used anymore).
The issue comes in when non-Germans, especially English-language natives try to pronounce the word. English pronunciation is incredibly inconsistent. Hence English speakers tend to fail (very confidently) when pronouncing foreign-language words.
(Fwiw, Germans and many others don't know anything about the silent G in "gnome" and will happily pronounce GNOME the way the project intends without being told. Similar things are true for the I in Linux.)
The marketing idiots who published this are Americans. The pronunciation is borderline correct but not quite.
You can't even read the title of the window properly, and it's a short one! And there's this ugly scramble of icons all clustered on the left. This may work and you may be used to it but Gnome is certainly not designed to be used like that.
Hiding all the buttons as the poster above told you to do is worse though.
As long as they eat their Five a Day, that is.
So this is what happens when package maintainers fail to find the problematic bits during package updates. I'll be honest, after seeing how Linux package management is done (automation and semi-automation galore) and by whom (people who often don't know the programming language of the source and who don't have much time either), I am more surprised that it took this long.
Cheap Chromebooks tend to break just like other cheap laptops. The only difference is that the OS may feel more responsive initially.
I really don't see the what the fuss is in this thread. The source does make it seem a bit nefarious, but even so, it appears the changes in VLC amount to adding support for a streaming format and adding a channel listing of some sort.
FAST is simply a streaming format. Whether to run ads is an individual decision of each channel.
If I can have a streaming client that can play certain streams versus one that can't, I'll obviously pick the former. (Unless they employ a DRM scheme which does weird things to my devices but it doesn't appear that's part of the discussion here.)
.db is usually short for "database". I'd suspect this file is part of an anti-virus tool or similar. ~~Where did you find the file?~~ Edit:
phishingurlindicates that it's part of some URL checking functionality of a browser. Not sure which browser puts that straight into.local/sharethough. Might be a KDE thing.Edit 2: Qkall's answer says it's KMail.