Air India has offered an interim compensation payment to Mr Ramesh of £21,500, which has been accepted, but his advisers say this is not enough to meet his immediate needs.

The family fishing business in Diu in India, which Mr Ramesh ran with his brother before the crash, has since collasped, his advisers said.

Spokesman for the family Mr Seiger said they had invited Air India for a meeting on three occasions, and all three were either “ignored or turned down”.

The media interviews were the team’s way of reissuing that appeal for the fourth time, he said.

Mr Seiger added: "It’s appalling that we are having to sit here today and putting him [Viswashkumar] through this.

"The people who should be sitting here today are the executives of Air India, the people responsible for trying to put things right.

“Please come and sit down with us so that we can work through this together to try and alleviate some of this suffering.”

Poor guy. It sounds like he’s really struggling. Air India needs to do right by him and pay him enough for some good mental and physical care. The amount they have paid him isn’t nearly enough, as he could have lifelong problems from the crash.

All generalisations are great.

If the line is trending higher all the time, that’s going to happen often.

How would a massive political upheaval make it rain? Seems more a matter of climate change than regime change.

*Intermittently sweaty.

I feel bad for their kids.

It usually works fine. If later you find something isn’t working, you can just install what you need. I’ve done this several times and had it just work, even on machines with very different hardware.

For now, Android is the best compromise between functionality and openness that’s suitable for daily use, especially GrapheneOS. Hopefully some of the Linux alternatives will develop to that point soon, but by all accounts they’re not there yet. So it’s worth fighting to keep what we have until we can use something more open.

Greetings, fellow Candians!

In my experience many Canadians are pretty loud too. Americans may have the edge though.

Only when we can step away from capitalism can we change course. Until then, the system locks everyone in and we’re just tinkering with detail. And that step will be a rough one, but it is necessary.

Innovation! Tech that’s the same but a different shape!

This article really tells you nothing. It just repeats the marketing material, almost as if it’s an ad dressed up as an article.

Is that a compatibility layer thing, or a full Windows VM (requiring a Windows license) integrated into the Linux desktop environment? Being able to run the Affinity suite without having to switch to Windows is appealing.

Edit: There’s no GPU access so it’s unlikely things like Affinity Photo would run well.

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Heliboard seems decent, though I don’t know anything about the developers.

If I had $500 million I wouldn’t work another day in my life. You would never hear about me. I would go live somewhere quiet and have everything I could possibly want delivered to me.

That sounds like it might drive a person crazy too. I hope that after acquiring the financial freedom to choose what to do, I’d find the motivation and energy to choose to do some actually worthwhile things with other people, just staying alert to what needs doing. I agree about these guys being mentally unwell though. They’re stuck in a rut of greed for more money and power, and they lack the perspective, imagination or capacity to appreciate life that they’d need to change course.

It does seem to put them in the same league for indirectly caused deaths as Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

You can have all the gold in the world, doesn’t mean someone will trade even a gun with a single bullet for it.

On the other hand, there are plenty of people who wouldn’t mind giving you a single bullet for free.

Usually these people mean “profit”. They can’t see how money alone will not enrich a person.

It’s the tech Taliban. Only engineering allowed.