My kids only knew Linux from the first day they used a computer.

They didn’t have any difficulty transitioning between that at home and the chromebooks or windows desktops the school had.

Firefox has an option called copy link without trackers

Thunderbird also does that . (Not surprising since it’s also a Mozilla project)

Not every adult has a driver’s licence.

It’s so unnecessary complicated and prone to errors/manipulation

That’s why it exists - to make it more inconvenient for people (especially in certain demographics) to vote.

I started out with a Knoppix live-CD back in 2002. Remember that distro?

Thats what got me to start dual-booting and eventually nuke my Win XP install entirely.

It’s been all penguins ever since.

Discord works great on Linux nowadays.

And has done so for quite some time.

If I were buying today, it wouldn’t be a smart TV

Good luck finding one of those.

Those shouldn’t exist at all, and if they have to, the settings should be expressly asked about as part of the initial setup, not buried in a menu that nobody goes to unless they’re specifically looking for the options.

You don’t have to tell the truth.

Making it exactly like any other dating app.

And scrub the metadata off the pictures before posting them.

No your hair salon, grocery store, car wash, restaurant, etc. **doesn’t ** need my email address or phone number to “improve customer sercice”.

Fuck off, just take my money and give me the damn thing I’m teyi g to buy.

Never allow “Send notification” permission for “Bot verification purposes”.

Or for any other reason, either.

Not even my bank or other places I trust get to send me push notifications in the wenmb browser.

If you really need to get my attention, and if I have explicitly allowed it , then send me an email.

I’ve used old laptops as battery backed up NAS boxes.

Obviously assumes that you can install a reasonably large drive and that the battery still has some life left in it.

Which means they’re not going to respect your local do not call lists.

But the fee is nominal and wouldn’t stop any predator from doing bad things if they are so inclined.

It might slow down people from doing it in bulk, though.

I tried FreeBSD many years ago (back when I was on dialup and bought a book with the FreeBSD install CD included…).

At the time it was interesting to tinker with, and I did use it as a dual-boot on my Win95 computer, but I moved on to Linux when Knoppix came along.

At the time linux seemed more end user friendly.

Maybe I should spin up an install just for nostalgia sake, and to see where it’s at these days.

It’s also on the cusp of a major upgrade release, so good documentation of the latest version’s features will be in high demand very soon.

Most that I’ve found have been on the ground near bus stops.

Multiple TB when setting up a new server to mirror an existing one. (Did an initial copy with both together in the same room, before moving the clone to a physically separate location. Doing that initial copy would saturate the network connection for a week or more otherwise)

Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

Plus, those other platforms don’t have an audience.

Even Odysee, which has been around for several years, I only get 10s of views compared to the 3000-5000 that I get on youtube.