Self host as much as you can. Use smaller services when you can’t. And pay for things you don’t host yourself. If it’s free to you, it’s because you’re the product.

The Wine and Proton devs claim that all of the code has been reverse engineered and written from scratch to simply be compatible with the Windows APIs. Unless that claim is false, or Microsoft has a patent over any systems they are recreating (which is unlikely), there’s nothing Microsoft can do legally. If they did have a patent, getting around it probably wouldn’t be too hard.

Pretty poorly, which is why I wear glasses.

Not a girlfriend, but a date (that ultimately didn’t go anywhere). She was a teacher and I mentioned despite being a software engineer and having to take up to Calc 2 in university, I never actually learned long division. So, she taught me.

Most of the Ubuntu guides online should work for you if you’re using Mint. (Unless you’re using Mint Debian Edition, but even then a lot will work.)

Yeah, but probably I’d make it lower (like 67) and allow exceptions with large majority (like a four year exception with a two thirds or three quarters vote of the senate).

I also think Supreme Court justices should have terms and term limits, and shouldn’t be allowed to receive gifts over a certain value (like $2,000).

Nextcloud is awesome for most things, but for photos I would recommend Immich. It’s just as good as Google Photos imho.

I got rid of all the snacks in my house, and have kept them out. I lost 25 pounds too. :)

You wait your turn, u/9point6.

While I agree that the USSR was worse, the two absolutely are comparable.

• The US had concentration camps. Arguably it still does, just not for its own citizens.
• The US currently has inhumane and deadly prison conditions, but they used to be far worse.

Comparing deaths may put USSR on top, but the US isn’t that far behind.

Comparing authoritarianism is another story. Both quieted political dissent in the same way: raiding opposing political organizations and jailing or killing their leaders. That is authoritarianism.

Calm down, Satan.

Because we live in a capitalist society where capitalists control our media and education. Back in the fifties, you’d be jailed or even killed for being a communist (or gay) in the United States of America. Why do we view this as any less authoritarian than the USSR? Because it’s our past.

The UI seemed like it wasted a lot of space. I hope that Cosmic is better in that regard.

I’ve been very happy with btrfs. Ext4 is basically rock solid, so you can’t really go wrong with it, but btrfs has some nice features that ext4 doesn’t have, like snapshots. And it’s fast. I have an extremely cheap SSD that’s too slow to run anything with ext4, but actually usable with btrfs.

€2,100 for the base model.

€4,200 for top of the line.

Why would I want to replace my desktop with this?

Green Day for sure. Although I did recently see a conservative post online, “when did Green Day start singing about politics,” so maybe they’ve gotten political…

I got really into Star vs The Forces of Evil, Dexter, Sons of Anarchy, and Adventure Time well after they each had ended.

He’d be a great snipe hunter.

In general, because what everyone thinks of when they say USB is a host-device protocol, and you’re trying to connect two hosts together.

But USB is a blanket term for a number of protocols, and there are protocols that allow a host to switch roles and become a device, depending on what it’s connected to.

If you see a PC being advertised with “dual role USB ports” or support for “USB-OTG”, then you can connect it to another PC. Otherwise, you almost certainly can’t.

If all you want to do is transfer files, you can use something like QuickDAV to transfer files over your local network.

My upgrade went very smoothly. No issues.