I too think you should remove windows. But if you don’t want to take a clonezilla image of your hard drive now. Store it somewhere else of course. You then can always recover if this scheme gets weird.

Its the first thing I do when I get a new laptop. Then wipe windows. Then install Linux. If I have hardware issues I can simply restore windows for warranty.

In any case, I would pick one of those two Linux to be a primary. You don’t want to get rid of mint or make it a VM. Ok third option: distrobox it.

It became corporate thats what happened. About 15 years ago I took a cab in Vegas. My driver was a long since retired back up singer. He told me stories of working with all sorts of Vegas acts, Sinatra and so on.

He then got a bit wistful about the old times. He said he missed old Vegas. He missed the mob. He said when the mob ran Vegas you knew where you stood and the mob knew to simply take a little off the top year after year.

Then he said the corporations moved in. And everyyear they squeeze. Take more and more, it never stops. They are the ones who invited families in and squeezed some more. Raised the prices on everything, made the odds worse if the could on slots, built giant building and increased the prices for rent and nickle and dimed every single service they could.

And year after year it was never enough, they just kept squeezing and increasing prices.

I would not choose to use a product made by people I disagree with but leaving that aside:

Is it the least bad? Why not degoogled chrome? Or chromium? Even vivaldi seems like a better choice.

It amazes me people use this crap. I guess people just don’t give a fuck about their life.

Yes I know it is extraordinarily popular in many places of the world. Mine included. The hardest part isnt friends, it is businesses.

Friends/family have been easy enough: we are going to use signal for example. They go ok, whatever. But business got complacent. We always work it out in the end anyways. Or I wont give them my business.

I never knew either of these things existed for Xbox or windows. Who is stupid enough to buy streaming movies or tv shows? Oh xbox and windows users. Makes sense.

Did they check to see if he had a brain? We know he never had a heart.

She shouldn’t have said this, it sealed the deal “Millions of Americans will have less trustworthy information about their communities, states, country, and world with which to make decisions about the quality of their lives.”

She should have said: “Millions of Americans will lose access to information about how great Trump is and how to report who to deport next.”

Jokes aside, the emergency broadcast system makes so much sense as a function of public broadcasting. I have been to several countries that explicitly subsidize radio and tv channels for this purpose. You can have public programming 99% of the time, and a way to get information out in an emergency all ready to go.

I appreciate the feedback. We both agree that American is the worst, and I think that is true.

I don’t fly as often as you, but I fly internationally and of the US airlines, Delta has been the most consistent for me. But then again, I still am bitter after getting stuck in an airport at 2 AM (flight was at 10) because United kept saying this plane will leave, just wait. They knew the whole time it was not going anywhere after I talked to some people that work there.

I have been stranded by many airlines, for many reasons, but rarely has one been so bold.

Cheap tickets, and yet the longest travel time ever. No more showing up at the airport and walking onto the plane in less than 20 minutes anymore.

They sure seem to suck less than the others. American? Never. Do they just hate customers? United…if I have to.

This kind of blows my mind. Globally The top three airlines for being on time in order were: Aeromexico, Suadi, and Delta.

the state ranks 46th in overall child well-being, 49th in education, 45th in health, and 40th in family and community.

And they only want to make it even worse. How do people in OK go along with this shit?

The kids likely can’t even spell “woke”.

Papers gotta get clicks. Maybe capitalism is the real villain here.

It may not have all the mods Minecraft does, but it supports various games like VoxelLibre and Minecraft which also supports mods and both provide actual gameplay not just testing.

Exile is also available in luanti and its brutal survival.

Ubuntu? Its a can’t make up its mind what it is trying to be while always becoming a crashy mess. When it first came out I remember trying it and immediately broke it.

The last time I installed it recently it had issues out of the box.

If you graph the prices of beef each year from 1960 to today, the prices goes up except for 2 years. One was the result of over supply do to coming out of the late 80’s after reducing herds and getting back to normal coupled with a reduction in demand (less beef in the 80’s - healthy diet ideas), and the second was a lower demand from foreign markets coupled with cheaper feed.

But the trend is clear: its going up, and it isnt going to come back down, at least not for long.

The angle of the chart gets steeper each decade as well.

At all the schools my kids went to… Nobody cares. The kids really don’t give a shit what other kids are wearing. In some ways it’s bizarre given that wasn’t the case when I was a kid. But in many ways it’s great. I rarely ever hear of bullying, kids just are themselves.

Of course thats woke, because they actually speak to the kids and tell them to consider others and will not tolerate intolerance. So I expect schools like these are few and far between.

I find this complaint very strange. It’s a dot. It helps people find what they installed.

But if this person doesn’t need it, how would they ever see it? Most power users I know never even look in the menu, so they would never know there is a dot in the first place.

It is worth mentioning that in the case of krupps they made a lot of money selling arms in WWI and they purchased newspapers to sell the war to increase profits.

Own all the newspapers… Propaganda… Seems familiar.

I agree with your points but it is extremely frustrating that they also are killing the science to try and have better predictions and not even bothering with managing climate change which will make these kind of events more frequent and more devastating. I am sure you already know but it is so damn frustrating. People are dying and it only is going to get worse.

When they say WhatsApp I gotta think that would be the same for any third party conversation app right? I would never use whatsapp, and I would hope any security minded person wouldnt either. But I do rely on an opensource sms launcher and signal. I would assume the framework would make it mess with those too.

This sucks. Horribly sucks. I can’t stand apple products, they cant do anything. I know that even having google play on my android device means I am fucked anyways, but this is a new low from google.

Feels weird to buy a google pixel, only to be able to expect it is the best way to not have google on it. (grapheneos or similar).