The fact that anyone still believes there will be anything resembling “fair” elections by 2028 is baffling to me.

The american capacity to stick their head in the sand as long as they have the newest gadget in front of their face and an endless stream of tiktok content to look at is fucking insane.

Wait…people actually bring office partitions to starbucks???

In terms of how you interact with it day to day, no. And that’s because the Distro in that sense matters less than the desktop environment. Since DEs are fundamentally distro agnostic, most distros give a person the option for multiple choices in that regard, so it doesn’t really matter if you’re using Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, etc… what matters from a usage perspective is if you’re using KDE, or Gnome, or XFCE, etc…

Under the hood there’s a lot of differences in how each one chooses to do things, but I wouldn’t call one of them better or worse than any other and for the most part can be ignored.

My advice would be narrow it down to one choice; and that’s your package manager. That’s really where most of the difference lies. Find the one that you find easiest to use (Apt, Pacman/Pamac, DNF, Zypper) and that’s where you land until you’re comfortable.

For the same reason that the “Real Housewives of ‘X’ or ‘Y’ do it”. Because it’s a visible affirmation to themselves of how rich they are. The fact that they can afford to “stay young and beautiful” is something that they are better than us peasants for.

MAGA, following the lead of Trump, have a very very gaudy idea of what it means to be “rich”. It’s all gold plated everything and showing your wealth as obviously as possible in every possible situation. Someone once said that Trump is “a poor man’s idea of what a rich man looks like”. And that’s pretty accurate. To Trump and his MAGA followers, wealth is to be flaunted as a show of power.

• Doesn’t officially exist on paper? Check.

• Computer generated code name? Check.

Sounds like an opportunity to train a future international assassin ninja.

I’m no swifty. But I would be a huge fan if she dropped the hammer on Musk and Grok for this. It’s only a matter of time before Musky fucks with the wrong billionaire.

How much self-loathing does Tim Cook have as a gay man coddling up to Trump, knowing that the orange fuckwit would happily have him thrown in a concentration camp for his sexual orientation if not for his billions of dollars.

I wish there had been a way for Kellog to be more than just “a guy you kill on the way to the institute”.

He deserved to be more fleshed out and used.

As with everyone else, I agree that Ublock origin is the first wonder of the world.

Also up there however is just password managers in general, be that bitwarden, lastpass, protonpass, etc…

The Rwandan Genocide.

Good times… /s

I’m probably already on several.

Totally unrelated. But I just learned that the longest sniper kill ever recorded was 3.5 kilometers…

Because I’m not going to willingly give my creative efforts over to a corporation that will hold it hostage and only allow me to work so long as I’m using only their products.

The only way that has any accuracy is if the Linux photo has a button that quite literally manages most of the other buttons for you, and the more complicated stuff exists really only if you want to do it manually.

You can get by just fine literally never touching any of those buttons day-to-day. But they’re there for the people who want to get down in the mud with their operating system.

I’m not sure exactly where the beginning was, but I believe it started with a relatively famous scene from the movie Deliverance.

I mean sure, it sounds good. But the entry cost is enormous. Who the hell can afford a banjo in this economy?

As a Canadian, American Express most certainly exists here. A quick google search shows that it exists in the UK as well. I’m going to guess it exists in other major countries as well.

No idea about Discover though. Barely even knew it existed at all.

A crackdown by whom?

The people who have the power to change it are the people who want it the way that it is.

Protests don’t matter. Boycotts don’t matter. For one simple reason.

You’re not their customer. The people buying the data they collect from you are. There will never be enough people willing to do away with their precious smartphones and tablets to make a dent in ithat.

No. And I’ll explain by way of a quick example.

Every lunch hour, high-schoolers from the local comp cut across my work’s parking lot on their way to 7-11. A group of them, the same boys for the most part, laugh and sig heil each other while using their fingers to make fake hitler moustaches.

Does this make them nazi’s? No. It makes them teenagers who do something idiotic because it’s “edgy” and their peers are doing it. 16 year olds have zero concept of the real world implication of their actions. Their brains are neither fully formed enough or emotionally mature enough to vote responsibly rather than just decide to be a dick bag because it’ll make their friends laugh.

At best you’re going to end up with a lot of spoiled votes writing in Eric Cartman. And at worst, they’ll actively vote in the asshole that makes honest voters made because that’s the “edgelord” thing to do.

Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Chaos makes the news. Boring doesn’t. Countries that are currently being run by mostly functional adults don’t find themselve in the news as much as countries that are a literal dumpster fire being fed by boat-loads of orange toddler piss.

Ergo…the U.S. news is everywhere at the moment.