Seems mostly great, but I’ve heard a lot of negative things about /e/OS. It’s probably better than Google-ized Android, but GrapheneOS had a lot of complaints about its security, and most importantly it has proprietary systems and applications included. Proprietary applications by default (some that they’ve written?) is weird and worrying for a privacy focused OS.

GrapheneOS is the goat, imo. Hopefully we’ll get more devices supported soon.

https://www.ecosia.org/privacy

Not perfect, you’d probably want to change away from Google for example, and Microsoft/Google seem to get your IP address or location along with the search, to get relevant results. Still seems leagues better than Google or Bing directly, and the issue seems to mostly be Google/Microsoft getting data, rather than Ecosia collecting data for itself.

you don’t pay up front at the ER, and there’s nothing stopping you from just not paying. Hospitals will want the money, though, and they’ll harass you to get it.

In those extreme circumstances you might get NGO or GoFundMe money to pay for your medical care, or if the National Guard gets deployed for a natural disaster they might be able to treat really minor wounds for free. Some Hospitals have financial aid, but that’s usually by poorness, not emergency. Some hospitals will give free care if they’re connected to a University, or you’re getting experimental treatment and/or are a part of a research group, but that’s only some of their patients, generally just for chronic diseases, and doesn’t necessarily pay for everything. Some certain hospitals will have specific things for some people that are free, I remember a certain hospital treating gunshot wounds for free or something like that, thanks in part to a deal with the state.

but fr North East Ohio Regional Sewer District seems awesome, shame they’re in Ohio.

That’s where they stick the flourine into the water. Don’t be mislead by the color and smell, you should be drinking the soup. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, amirite?

Go to the piracy Wiki, there’s a bunch of websites where you can do direct downloads. That way you won’t have to torrent, and therefore don’t have to worry about your ISP looking and complaining about that unencrypted torrent traffic.

We had open borders with no restriction on immigration for like the first 100 years, the first laws restricting immigration were because of anti-Chinese racism in the late 1800s.

"the defendant and many others have used screen recording to copy content. "

Ah, the defense pointed out this exact same thing. This isn’t a final ruling, we’ll see what the judge thinks about screen recording.

Does screen recording count as circumvention with 3rd party tools? It make take a while longer, especially for high quality videos that chop up the content, but YouTube reactors could be safe.

And how do they prove that it was ripped, and not just screen recorded? It wouldn’t look different, right?

Racism is very American, ICE is very racist, but ICE is also quite new. We did fine without them for more than 200 years.

Stuff based on Debian, like Mint or whatnot, generally also “just works” just like Debian would, while also having more up to date software with their own repositories, and more user friendly software to automatically do stuff with GUI’s.

It’s not user-oriented the way the distros based on it are. apt is mediocre and slow compared to a lot of other distros package managers.

The out of date software is really important for new users for one big reason, and that’s hardware compatibility. Arch Linux, especially with AUR DKMS, can work with basically anything supported by Linux. Debian will struggle with anything sorta new. Having on old kernel, like Debian does, is one of the worst things a distro can do, for performance, for compatibility, and more.

Their software is also actually super duper out of date, too. To the point where KDE on Debian and Kubuntu is several versions out of being supported. A lot of software developers are sick of people reporting fixed issues because the user is using Debian, so they tell them to use a more up to date distro.

Most universities have cut their budgets this year. A lot of Small Private Colleges are closing, merging, or otherwise not doing too hot.

Big universities with massive endowments will be fine, but there’s a lot more colleges than that.

Expenses increasing at a higher rate than revenue

Very interesting that he points out that a guy is Jewish, does not give good vibes. Ofc most of the things he’s done don’t give me good vibes either.

Anyway, I can’t remember the last time I’ve used Mega, for anything. None of the cool sites use them, afaik. There’s like a million better sites now, and the best stuff is in Russia, since they barely touch piracy sites. it’s so often in a piracy sites lifecycle for them to start on a normal tld, get banned, move to a weird tld, get banned, then move to a cool foreign countries tld.

Also, Manjaro bad. Cachy, EndeavourOS etc. are fine.

I use Arch btw. The best Arch distro is just normal Arch linux. If you really want stuff from other “Arch distros”, you can add their repos or customize your configs. There’s nothing you can do in an Arch distro you can’t do with Arch itself.

If you read the linked article you’ll see he didn’t have anything to do with her losing her offer. The National Space Council doesn’t have hire/fire power

“As it turned out, it was due to the NASA hashtag her friends used that called the agency’s attention to it long after my comments were gone”. - Homer Hickam. Also, I’ve read his book, it’s decent. He’s had a somewhat interesting life.

Happy birthday

A long overdue change of the default. And it doesn’t even need to be removed, for whoever actually uses and likes that “feature”.

Streaming seems to often be faster than direct downloads, for whatever reason.