I did read about disk space but it’s pretty clean; it was a fresh install, no Windows.

Home is on a secondary drive, Linux on SSD. Plenty of space according to File Manager.

The graphic drivers are the standard that came with the Laptop; going into Driver Manager showed no updates necessary.

If you’re on Android (not sure if iOS has an equivalent app), one of the easiest things you can do is download Street Complete and take 15 minutes a day to use it in order to fill in information about your neighborhood.

Keep in mind, even IF something could be done by GUI, if you ask for help, 95% of the replies are immediately going to tell you to open CLI…

To be fair, you’d find that with Windows too; someone telling you to run some command in Powershell or the prompt (even Start > Run).

On Linux Mint, most updates and backups can be automated; installing ClamTK from Software Manager can be automated; the Software Manager, itself, is a GUI.

The terminal is helpful but required? Not really.

Doing a pure EU PDS is great; hopefully they do a Webview too, so that moderation and trust and safety aren’t at the behest of US Bsky.

If media companies make it impossible to buy and own content, then pirating is not unethical.

Debian; comes on Linux or on a tiny blue pill.

Depends on what type of incident; if it’s something like noise in the hall or smoking, my apartment management handles it and lets people know (assuming it’s warning territory).

I’d imagine for anything else, it’s a matter of not wanting to endanger people through escalation of non authority figures. I think you would have to have just cause to evict people, so having an official investigation would be imperitive.

So it’s less a Siri upgrade and more just a getting rid of Siri and putting in Gemini slop.

Weird how many billionaires are just openly pro paedophia.

Good news; I found an outfit with pockets.

Bad news; it’s a romper.

Wait’ll you find out that over half the states in the US have age gating laws on the internet.

Don’t praise Cloudflare or Italy; both are part of the problem.

Donating to your local affiliate is good but I also recommend, if you can, to donate to other smaller affiliates too - especially the community public radio stations and ones not as focused on the news site of things.

Personally PBS, Dropout, Beacon, and Democracy Now are the only streaming services I pay for and don’t pirate.

This reminded me to donate to Wikipedia.

You could always just install Linux Mint and then install the Mint XP theme. No Microsoft Account required.

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2026 shouldn’t be the year of any one specific thing; 2026 should be the year of teaching the less inclined how to be conscious with their data and go over methods for taking back their data from whatever service they might use.

The actual poll is here, but it’s locked behind membership; I can’t find any additional downloads. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31088367

The original article that the graphics came from is here, though: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/americans-predictions-1998-2025

To Torvalds, Chromebooks “are the path toward the desktop.”

Please don’t associate Linux with a close-source proprietary neutered web browser owned by an ad company.