Microsoft has a whole Linux division now, lol. They’re fully in the “extend” portion of their plan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Cinnamon is a dope desktop manager, too, good choices all around.

There has been some push to group an acceptable use policy into the license itself, so for instance you can stipulate that it can’t be used for military projects. I think that’s a perfectly valid extension since there’s already a mechanism in place to say you can’t use it for commercial projects. Here are some licenses that try to achieve that: https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/

OP is an average enjoyer

Open source on a hobby board is cool shit.

Print out the install guide on paper and have it with you while you go. If you fuck up networking, you’ll have the directions there to get it back.

I’ve been using Lawn Chair for several years and really like it

You could also use a text-to-speech engine and wear a mask

Jesus, that’s good work.

Startpage, it’s an alternative search. But it’s not without its own problems.

I use SearxNG, found a good, reliable instance that is close to my location.

For the past 100 years it has been this way, too. Post WW2 the US went way down hill. I mean pre WW2 it was already extremely shitty, but somehow they managed to make a shithole country even worse.

Look, I agree, but one cohort of those stupid monkeys is doing the most harm, and making things royally fucky for all the other monkeys. Not to mention everything else that lives on this rock.

Yeah, that’s the same crossroads I’m at. Currently using Proton Pass, and I like it, but it’s inherently closed. Security by obscurity is kind of their m.o.

Side note: how do you like running vaultwarden? Was thinking about using it.

Yep, this is the way. A PR should have a single focus. So your updates may end up being multiple PRs.

Am I stupid or doesn’t the speaker have to be a congressperson?

“a broken clock is right twice a day” and so forth

openSUSE is the GOAT for several reasons, but by far my favorite reason is Zypper.

I’d be down to clown with a rust-based de.