A local hero was saving women from Windows by installing fresh Linux distros on their dated machines. I wanted this superpower.

In working through the installation I was the least disappointed I’ve ever been with an OS. The result was something I truly liked. If I nail down every single problem it could be my all time favourite machine.

Arch is great, but it needs longer explanations considering the user needs to do a lot more. Sometimes you find them, but other times you find a snarky superuser with zero people skills.

It’s a shame they aren’t government standard, so I could take a local course to become a snarky superuser too.

Most of it involves everyday Linux usages, but some of it is specific to Arch and it breaks so hard. It’s not a great thing when you’re stupid busy and don’t have the headroom to get to the bottom of it. Sometimes all you get is vague theories on how a fix might occur. After that you’re playing shell games trying to debug your problems.

Definitely recommend for pro-Linux people that have a breakable laptop that can go on the backburner.

This looks interesting, thanks!

It’s a new management objective.

It does make sense in terms of working in a box for military awareness of enemy combatants. No expert, but that is something we’ve seen before.

All the neutrality of a traveling rocket scientist working for the highest bidder.

TIL, unlawful perfidy.

Which is why they’re calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate, no?

Open source isn’t struggling. It’s a struggle. People have high expectations, and expectations go awry in open source and profit models.

Two men destroy a 7/11. The police throw both in jail. Nobody cares if they were fighting and double daring each other to destroy more 7/11 which will get them in trouble. Both are committing crimes.

We need more of these balanced accusations.

Thanks for that! I hadn’t realised, and was wondering why people share those types of links.

Paywalled for me.

There has to be an amount of disbelief with the proficiency of rocket propelled delivery at this point. Laser weaponry and current defence solutions would have to give you pause in believing you could mount a nuclear war against the US without becoming the nuclear wasteland yourself. And it requires the unnerving belief allies will equally join the attempt and have proficient weaponry.

China’s going to look at the odds and think fuck that IMO.

Thought the same thing, but that time was an absolute powderkeg of ballistic egos.

Self own there. How would a simple jet fight create WWIII? It’s unlikely. Dick move, but unlikely to tip anything more off than a tit for tat that that festers along.

Sure, it could be on if China wasn’t so grossly inadequate, but they’re not actually professing that much military capability at this point.

Thanks Captain Obvious, we can’t wait for your second strike of accurate information today!

So it was a dick move. I could have guessed.

No, I think you’re wrong. A lot of countries try to make a big deal of sovereignty as a recommendation for peace. The US buys into that logic. It’s been proven repeatedly. In a way, they see borders as almost sacred.

It’s the same as they’ve proven not to want to use nuclear weapons. Despite the empire based logic leaking into some factors of US activities they still avoid WMDs and keep stepping back from the brink.

You can’t seriously think the other countries being mentioned are pushing any such agenda. Most mentioned are disrespecting the sovereignty of their neighbours and building up on international activity to harm efforts for international peace.

The US even tried everything to embrace China and Russia before this last decade of absolute bullshit from those countries.

The US’s biggest problem is actually getting involved because of previous promises. They made no promises in Myanmar, and look how that shitshow went down with China as an ally.

I can’t buy this China is an alternative military superpower idea. They never prove to do anything other than end up in a lifelong dispute with every other nation that gets in their way. Look at how Hong Kong panned out. That was disrespectful as hell! I know who the assholes are.

Yeah, I don’t get Cuba. That’s a WTF. To me, the best way not to put Cuba in collusion with your enemies is to give it all the concessions they need, and just drop all the sanctions. Maybe I’m wrong and they’re planning on being the ultimate backdoor rogue state, but it just doesn’t seem like it.