What did you think I asked about Windows?

“Misterious”?. In that same line of thought, there have been some misterious décapitations of cartel members in northern mexico.

Windows 8 and that was at work. At home, windows XP, although I kept updating my dual boot “just in case” to see what was new all the way to windows 10. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 11 my desktop was no longer supported (no TPM). I used a workaround that failed and never cared to waste time. I may do it when I have more time.

I was still familiar up to Windows 10 as sometimes I helped my dad. He is quite technical but he is now 91 (still sharp enough to drive, socialize extensively, deal with bureaucracies, etc but tends to forget more than what he learns). Unfortunatelly he lives 4000 km away but when I go, there is always something I can help him with.

Ad I said. I realized I can’t have an opinion because my experience is old.

With that said following your tools analogy, and based on that old experience. imagine if over time, your tools became slower and slower until someone came to do maintenance and mine didn’t. Or if when you were closing shop for the day, the tools started updating and you couldn’t close the tool box.

Now, based on what other people are saying, imagine that every now and then your tools at home stopped to play an ad for more tools.

You wouldn’t see this from corporate tools because someone else takes care of it and it doesn’t show ads.

By the way. I used Windows really well (since the early days) so I could call myself an expert at the time. In my early life I was the one behind the scenes ensuring people could work seamlessly. I never really liked it the way I like Linux.

So no, not all tools are the same. But if you like yours, all the best.

You mean my distros?

Different distros are the best for different purposes.

My Fedora is the best for my laptop because it just works and all the hardware is supported.

My Arch is the best because it’s a super fine tuned setup that prevents distractions and doesn’t waste memory or CPU doing things I don’t care about.

My mint is the best because it’s simple, stable, beautiful out of the box.

My debian is the best because servers are no nonsense.

My puppy Linux was the best when I was a developer for the distro because it was the smallest lightest and fastest distro I’ve ever used.

Etc.

“CCTV footage has been misconstrued.”

Don’t believe your eyes or the woman! Say the rapists.

“I was doing an alcohol test with my fine tongue while my hands were looking for drugs or weapons. I was multitasking!”

I mean, their lawyer can argue all they want. If there is video, it will have to be heavy law contortionism.

Designate a concept as a terrorist organization, and then you can label anyone you don’t like as antifa so you can prosecute them.

It’s ridiculous how far the US is now into fascism. If the frog knew any history it would know what it means to be in a nice pot with warm water on top of a stove.

This feels like those theatre plays for children where the wolf is hiding behind the main character and all the children are shouting “the wolf is there!!” While the main character remains oblivious.

I have a problem believing he thought is wholesome. to celebrate violence or lack of empathy.

Starlink needs regulatory permission in every county they provide signal to.

People shouldn’t wait to get to that point when all the historical signs point in that direction.

I think you are being victim of the boiling frog effect.

Do you want to be pedantic and wait until the mass graves are discovered years after thebfact? Or do you see the escalating signs that they are going exactly in that direction?

Right now they are already disappearing people. They are already following the totalitarian regime playbook and history has shown exactly where it leads to.

By the way, remove the wool over your eyes, it’s not like the US doesn’t know the totalitarian regime playbook. They’ve used it many times in other countries to install puppet governments. The only difference is that they are doing it now at home.

Honestly, using the cloud to “right provision” can save a company money or at least give them great flexibility.

The problem? Companies over provision in the cloud and most of that goes unused.

When it’s cheap and easy to spin a new instance under load but later no one cares about doing capacity analysis, you end up paying for way more than you need. That’s where the money goes.

Your signature is your mark. Uniquely identifying. It doesn’t need to be your name.

I originally signed with name and last name plus a squiggle. I got tired of that and many years ago I changed it to my 4 letter first name barely legible. Way better more consistent than the variance writing my full name.

Butnintinknwe aware saying the same. Cursive is illegible, so. A bunch of squiggles is good enough. Some people call it cursive.

Note: other than nostalgia, I don’t understand why cursive. Barely legible even by the original writer.

I think for me the wave has more peaks and valleys.

I get to the last stage of good knowledge and decent confidence but then something new comes and I feel I’m ready for punishment again.

My first Valley of despair was Gentoo. 6 months of constantly compiling stuff and rarely using the computer for anything else. But a bit before that it was Fedora. In those early days, updates would continuously break my system.

In that first round I finally settled for Mint for years. After years of stable Linux Mint, I found my self with time and curious for Arch. And yes, that became the new l valley of despair. But eventually my stable instance.

But new things come and Wayland and new sound systems replaced what I had in my installation. Arch was again the valley of despair. And moved to Fedora, which is as stable as stable can be. I was traveling for the last two years so, no time to mess around.

Now back to arch trying to figure out the Wayland/Niri ecosystem. Let’s see where I land.

However, in my dual boots I always have a working installation I’m happy with and another which I mess up with.

Beat me to it. That was my first thought.

Yes, but they only sell in packages of 6. So, who needs 120 Megatrons? In the long run it’s better to buy just what you need or you end up nuking cities you didn’t want to nuke originally.

Hahaha, we can always hope.

The reason why Maduro is in power is the US. Plain and simple.

Hadn’t the US propped puppet right wing governments in Venezuela, there wouldn’t have been a need for a Chavez mesias.

The US doesn’t care about drugs. They care about Venezuelan oil and continue tal hegemony. That’s it.

So, it’s not only Trump. It’s every single government before him.

Show of hands: who expected high ethical standards by Nestle’s CEOs?

When OP says “layout” I think he means the old as windows 3.1 layout and workflow. It was good in the 90’s. Now it feels cumbersome and dated.

Don’t get me wrong. I know that’s the main selling point of Mint: Familiarity and stability. I settled on it for 19 years after I got tired of distro hoping. I’ve contributed financially to it every month for years.

However, it’s that cumbersome workflow which got me back into Gnome where I use only two extensions: transparent task bar and window autotile.

Gnome on a laptop flows naturally and out of the way.