I feel like the last part (“ThEY aRe TuRnINg ThE ChILdrEn [GaY/ TRanS]”) is just projection. THEY are the ones who want to stop you from being trans. The conversion “therapy” thing reminds me of this. They scream about their children being “TuRnED GaY”, while being more than happy to try to torture people into being straight.

I think (I may be wrong here) that Debian wild be good enough for beginners. Their stable branch is, well… stable, and i didn’t run into that many issues (I think it would only be when you want to run stuff that isn’t either a flatpak or in the repos, like i tried to do with howdy). Testing would also be good ,but expect a few issues.

I think endeavor OS could also do well. in my experience, the install process was easy, kinda like Debian (the first distro I installed). Dare I say it is easier than (or maybe slightly comparable to) Arch with archinstall?

They are talking about how discover has backends for flatpak, snaps, deb, and fwupd. not that they are together in the Ubuntu sense or other, just that they can be managed in the same application. Therefore snaps in discover are completely optional

heard that arch was Canadian (originated from)

No

I started journaling with a digital journal app that has fingerprint and PIN unlock, in adaddition to the ability to encrypt individual entries, with all data stored locally. It has made a big difference. I do find that I am more honest, sort of. I have a constant worry that someone would see my entries somehow. I started encrypting those entries (the really sensitive ones) and writing in a different language (I know that others could still understand it if they spoke that language, but I’m counting on the fact that it’s not the majority language where I live.)

ELI5? I know Greece has/had economic struggles, but don’t know what part the euro played in it.

Or maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment?

E: formatting

native English
learned French (4 years in high school)

They’re was a post a while back that mentioned hiring.cafe, as a service trying to be an alternative to/ better than LinkedIn. Haven’t tried it myself but could be promising.

I had the same experience. Asked a local LLM about using sole Qt Wayland stuff for keyboard input, a the only documentation was the official one (which wasn’t a lot for a noob), no.examples of it being used online, and with all my attempts at making it work failing. it hallucinated some functions that didn’t exist, even when I let it do web search (NOT via my browser). This was a few years ago.

I’d agree with that sentiment, but at least for me, if we went with all flatpacks, i’d be losing the one ability that I like about appimages, which is as a one-time-use type of “installation”. They’re kind of like those windows EXEs that you could just run in place without needing to install. very useful for stuff like raspberrypi imager where I don’t need to keep it around much

I use wine with winetricks for the manager and the other stuff that makes it easier. I also use q4wine. It’s a GUI for wine written in Qt. Both makes things simpler to varying degrees, and winetricks does have some scripts (though I don’t know how they would compare to lutris)

I did try a VPN (selfhosted OpenVPN as well as one provided by my university), but those didn’t work. I did try through invidious, and it worked.

nope. mine wasn’t on at the time. Just uBlock + Privacy Badger + Waterfox. Never had this happen to me before.

Til. Pretty cool feature.

I switched to QOwnNotes. It’s lighter than Joplin since it doesn’t use Electron. The only things I miss are highlighting (have to use an extension if I remember correctly), and LaTeX (mainly use this for mathematics formulas).

https://www.qownnotes.org/

I tried this with a local model on my phone (qwen 2.5 was the only thing that would run, and it gave me this confusing output (not really a definite answer…):

it just flip flopped a lot.

E: also, looking at the response now, the numbers for the car part doesn’t make any sense

Boop

that’s what private cities and walled off estates are for

I would just like to add that there is a school (I think in California) that the rich sends their kids to, where electronic devices are prohibited (and access restricted I believe). Though from the video, it does look lie the interact with others outside of that circle.

Here’s the video: YouTube Link