Agreed.Also, Windows and OSX, unless you want to have to call your nephew who’s Good With Computers™ every couple of weeks. If you’re just using a browser for everything and never messing around like a good majority of people, Linux is just as good as either of those. Linux has gotten to the point where it’s Grandma proof if you stick to a distribution that prioritizes stability. If you choose a distro that prioritizes bleeding edge software versions, you may come across more bugs and breaking changes.Then you’ll need the troubleshooting skills mentioned here. Most of us are here to learn and mess around; the troubleshooting skills grow from that mindset.

I agree with your lack of affection for cloud services, but I think your view might be a little skewed here. Does a senior mechanic need to understand the physics of piston design to be a great mechanic, or just gather years of experience fixing problems with the whole system that makes up the car?

I’m a Senior Systems engineer. I know very little about kernel programming or OS design, but i know how the packages and applications work together and where problems might arise in how they interact. Software Engineers might not know how or don’t want to spend time to set up the infrastructure to host their applications, so they rely on me to do it for them, or outsource my job to someone else’s computer.

I’ve seen it explained elsewhere and it makes sense to me. Kidnapping usually implies a person being taken with the intention of negotiating for their release, where disappeared is more often associated with avoidance of giving any substantial information to a party seeking their return.

I feel like you’re wrong here. Moses and Joshua were pretty big into the whole genocide thing. Deuteronomy 20:16 for example is pretty clear about that, among many other examples.

Except for the weapons we sold them, the intel reports we provided, etc, etc.

Before he was sworn in even. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-promises-to-settle-war-in-ukraine-if-elected

I’ve had way too many conversations with people that simply can’t comprehend how that works. “But then we’d have to do everything so much earlier, it would be dark all the time.” I try to explain that we’d still do everything at the same time of day, just call it something different, but they just can’t wrap their minds around that.

Same as it ever is. Their Russian handlers and their mouth breathing, Nazi loving supporters.

You might even say he’s extra manly; so manly he wants to spend all his time with men and as little time as possible with women.

Perhaps they’re carried. It would be pretty easy to grip them by the husk.

I like my Denon Heos setup: 2 TVs, home theater, receiver in my office connected to my computer and speakers in 7 other locations. Works great with Music Assistant, and doesn’t require a cloud connection. It can pull firmware updates if you want but I’ve blocked all Internet access for those devices with no loss of functionality.

Accession to NATO usually requires border disputes to be resolved. Last I knew Canada, the US and Turkey were also standing in the way.

For about a month until it’s shut down as insufficiently worshipful to our corporate overlords.

MAC is useless as a component of the security check. It’s trivial to change; either with a dongle, as you said, or in the network configuration of every major and minor OS.

Wow that headline. While it’s factually true I guess, it’s not at all representative of what’s stated in the article. They conveniently leave out that they want a separate deal with Mexico. More decoupling than excluding.

Skype was a steaming pile for sure, but it had the ability to search for and message a distribution group and get an answer from whomever was available and I could pin it for future use. Now I have to know every name in a group and message them individually until I find someone to help or start a meeting to get everyone at once. It may just be how our Teams instance is configured, but I miss that feature. And who decided there should be a limit on how many people I can pin in Teams?

Another stupid looking crossover/small SUV with a horse on the grill does not equal sport sedan

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Still way behind for KDE though. I’m running Sid on my gaming machine and hoping they update some time soon. I have KDE Neon on my laptop and it works great, but with an Ubuntu base it’s still trying to shove Snap down my throat.

You get a proxy war, and you get a proxy war…