I kind of wonder who is behind the over exaggeration. People with real concerns or those that do not want strong open platforms. Too much controversy and bifriction and those that push it for their own ends are the enemy.

Same. There is an Android version now too.

You have to want to use FOSS software. If you want to use certain proprietary applications then buy the commercial platform they run on.

The other is interest and ability to solve your own tech problems.

Keep in mind there are a lot of ways to start. Install it in a VM, buy hardware with Linux installed, or install it yourself.

I use it for when I want a custom system. Big ripo, and clean minimal installs along with security updates. I run it my workstation and on my vps systems.

I think you just like the truth test. Frankly I have used Python for over 25 years and have been doing programming for almost 50 years in many different languages. If you think I am somehow a beginner, I would disagree. The truth test is just like so many other Python specific idioms that grow in number by the year. They are not at all obvious unless you are deep into Python. Moreover, the truth test and the len() test are not the same test. One might be able to use either in a specific case, but that is case specific and which is more readable is up to the developer and we may well disagree on that choice. The other consideration in Python, speed of writing code which is often why many of us use Python and that may lead to different choices too including based on habit.

Lot of this reminds me of the Pascal vs. C debate of the 1980’s. Pascal was all about readability over compactness. C on the other hand, seemed to attract people that loved to write very compact code that was almost impossible to figure out on first glance. Me personally, I guess I’d choose C over Pascal but write the C in more of a Pascal authoring philosophy. Similarly, with Python, I often do not go for all of the Python idioms. Lot of that is just writing what I am thinking, and the rest is probably habit. If I am going to test 0 length then I’ll probably test zero length. I do not find it at all obvious that, oh, I want to test 0 length so the Python idiom for that is to truth test. I absolutely know that to be the case on certain types of objects, but it probably is not going to be my first choice.

Compact does not mean easier to understand. They are different tests. The point is, do not make code less readable for speed unless speed matters. I am not going to argue which is more readable in any specific case. That is up to the developer.

That is not what they said. They said operationally nothing is changing. However, they are basically in-part ad supported and so with that comes some strings. All of this can probably be configued out but it is a pain.

For me, hard call. Fragmenting into maybe better browsers reduces Firefox popularity and that impacts wheather web developers will test against anything but Chrome. When that happens these other browsers become irrelevent. So using other browers has a consequence.

Why do you think Firefox is spying on you any more then any of the other major browsers? Turn off all of the sponored content.

Yes or sometimes it is just that the Firefox version is too old or your privacy setting too strict. So updating to latest version and switching to a new clean standard profile can help.

There is only one answer, Firefox or a derivative. Anything else is a vote for a closed commercial web.

We are doing things. An important judge race in WI went our way. Couple of FL congress races were won by republicans by a lot less then expected. In MN we had 25000 people turn out. There are tons of cases working through the courts.

About all can be done at the moment is file law suits, try to shift public opinion enough so Republican congessman start getting nervous, win elections as come up.

An interesting thing about this is that even for jets the direction is high bypass ratio turbofans as they are more efficient. Meaning even there props are more efficient.

Look at FairPhone. I got a Pixel 8a recently and flashed Graphene and I think this is the best tradeoff but I understand wanting jack etc, as I would have liked too.

In hind site for me, turns out Blutooth is great as it works well with my OTC hearing aids and my Bluetooth headphones too. I liked the hearing aide support as it gives me proper calibrated sound where generic stuff will not.

And presumably debugging is a lot more work as AI is just a fancy template lookup and has no idea what it is doing.

Basically quickly generate crap code then hope you can debug it into something acceptable.

Sounds like a wealthy man. Anyone who cannot define what is enough will always be poor regardless of how much money they have.

When your wealthy, money ceases to have much meaning.

I use primarily debs but if your using Ubuntu it will include Ubuntu supported snaps. This is all from the distro supplied repos generally.

Installing random stuff not distro support contains a lot of addition risks such as potentially more bugs and malware.

I think the only 3rd party program I have installed is an AppImage of Joplin. I found the snap buggy.

I am not big fan of snaps or flatpacks as I had issues with both. One rarely needs them on Debian based distros anyway.

Just thinking what possibilities. Some thoughts.

• We always use Ubuntu LTS and do not install or upgrade a release until is out for 6 to 9 months. For Debian we use stable.

• Make certain your install media is good and also the computer storge media.

• Keep the system updates current.

• Use packages installed from the standard repo and supported by the security team.

Not sure what else.

Just FYI. My family has used linux for 25 years on many systems and we do not have stability issues. We use mostly Ubuntu or Debian.

Have no idea why your having issues. Could distro or hardware related. Also are you sure your storage media is good.

Yes. I support one youtuber that way. They put extended content there and stuff youtube would sensor. Do not actually use it that much but it is a nice thank you one gets for supporting them.

You can share a name or handle now but I think you still need the phone number otherwise though you no longer have to share it.