I’ve been a Linux guy since 1996 but almost exclusively on the server side. I tried desktop Linux numerous times through the years but the experience wasn’t great. In 2012 I left Windows behind for Mac as my daily driver. In 2016 I built a Windows gaming system, and in 2019 I got sick of how shitty Intel Apple MBPs were so I got a Lenovo X1 Extreme, slapped PopOS on it, and it has been my daily driver ever since. Same machine. Solid as a rock. I do have an M1 MBP now, but itnis only for music production.

Linux on the Desktop is lightyears away from where it was just ten years ago. It’s crazy how painless it all is now.

She at least forty years too old for that.

I remember installing Linux for the first time from a CD of the Red Hat Halloween release (1996?). It was like being dropped off in an alien planet. Good times.

Nutanix…oof. I deal with them every day. It isn’t their fault their shit can’t handle what we do, but it is their sales folk that constantly lie and misrepresent.

Wanna know one of rhe big reasons people hate Oracle so much? It’s their sales guys. They are awful. If that guy went from Oracle to Nutanix, that tells me that I cannot trust a single syllable out of their mouth.

Hatred of Oracle predates “cancelling” by decades. Oracle is and has always been one of, if not the most disgusting and vicious companies in tech. They kill everything they touch.

If you need a political component, then Oracle = Larry Ellison, but Oracle hate predates and supercedes the American political slide into fascism.

MySQL belongs to Oracle. That’s literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.

“Think of the children” is a lie solely used to erode people’s rights and for them to gain more power and control.

British diplomats believe that Trump is also motivated by a desire to distract American voters from the performance of the US economy before the mid-term elections later this year…

And the Epstein files mess. Trump and his clown posse should be careful. They could end up Kennedy’d by an acronym tired of their shit.

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It goes beyond that. Venezuela’s oil is heavy crude(if I understood correctly) which is difficult to process and requires specialized refineries in which US oil companies have not invested in.

EDIT: See comments below for corrections and more context.

Correct. Previous competent State Departments have sent in spooks (CIA) into sovereign countries they are not at war with.

Iranian citizens are rising up. If the US bombs Iran, I fear that momentum will stall or reverse. This might be what the US wants as it maintains the status quo, but that’s just me theorizing.

Died from…WHAT???

Trump didn’t pay his bill?!?

I meant, what subject matter?

What courses?

The current legal retirement age needs to also be the maximum age one can hold office in any branch or institution of state and local governments.

I always recommend FUTO for its privacy BUT although they do share/open their sourcecode to scrutiny, it is not licensed as free and open source software (FOSS).

I store my torrent links and bookmarks in Standard Notes. It is fully encrypted and replicates your data via Dropbox (db is encrypted so not readable to Dropbox). On my phone I can share a link from Firefox directly to Standard Notes.