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Repairability has been mentioned already, but how about being free from having billionaires decide for you what you can and cannot install on your laptop?

I’m with OP.

When me and my wife got married, we invited 20-ish people. Small service, lunch for everyone, and every guest looked happy. It was a good day and looking back, I would not have done it differently.

One year earlier, we went to a wedding of a friend with ~200 people. Nice woman, but a total show-off. The wedding reception was horrible. They had a dress code, the service was spread among three locations, there were apparently massive costs, and many awkward, unhappy looking people. That marriage apparently did not last either.

Did they not switch recently to Cosmic DE? Maybe people do not like that?

I tried PopOS a few years ago. I did not particularly care for their Gnome implementation, but other than that, it was quite decent.

• “Which Epstein files?”

don’t worry…

I know you’re being sarcastic, but still. With the likes of him and Hegseth in change, I am constantly worried. Even if I do live in a country that is not currently being threatened directly by them.

In other news: the US is runnig out of ammo. Yeah sure, let’s open up a new front.

Dementeid old fool.

😀

I know plenty of Boomers who are additcetd to their smartphones. Even more so than the younger generations. Some even have the TV on in the background while doomscrolling.

He does not. His stunt double does. :-)

Well I can’t argue that. Thanks.

You mean Operation Which Epstein Files? I don’t know. As a EU citizen, I do not see much on the Epstein files in US media.

Source? As far as I know, almost any Western civilization has most people in the Boomers / GenX age brackets, so way before 1979. Same for Japan.

Maybe I am cynical, and I am by no way a military expert of any kind, but I would figure that an A-10 is more expendable than a F-35.

I am in the ‘A-10s are cool’ camp, but I do not think that they are particularly useful anymore on a modern battlefield.

Thank you for calling out a pet peeve of mine.

Adding to this already good post, a side benefit of a service like Vaultwarden is that you can use the same password management system among all your devices.

Is that an apple thing?

Sadly no. I have had several Lenovo’s with the same thing, and my current Asus at work does not allow swapping memory or SSD either. My daily driver is a Tuxedo, which does allow all this.

The apple of the automotive world.

From what I hear from a BMW mechanic in the family, they are starting to become the Acer of the Automotive world, although they would have to compete with Volkswagen for that title.

Please allow me to broaden the context. I used to be an avid motorcyclist. I had a 2000 BMW R1100, which I could service with a modest set of tools. A more modern BMW appears to be very hostile to home mechanics. Even the screws have a corporate head nowadays. Servicing a BMW has become very expensive, as it requires some extremely specialized mechanics (or so they say). My next motorcycle, if I ever buy one, will NOT be a BMW.

It fits in a trend: consumers are being kept from servicing, upgrading or otherwise extending the lifespan of their devices. Repair a smartphone? Good luck. Swap an SSD in your laptop. Tough, buddy. Want to set up your dishwasher. Sure, download the app, give your GPS coordinates and the birth date of your firstborn and you can set it up.

Armchair general here who is bad at strategy games. Please take with a grain of salt.

The US sent advanced armies at several agricultural societies and still got their asses handed to them. I can imagine that in a domestic setting, the death toll will be high, but that the civilians eventually win. Also, I wonder whether the military would want to fight their own people. Then again, ICE is a thing as well.

Where are you from, OP? Not only do we not eat dessert right before bedtime (where did you get that silly idea?), but where we live, dessert is commonly either milk-based, fruit based or both.

It would have to be very, very bad and it would weigh heavily on my soul if I ever were to speak those words to my children.