‘reserves the right’ but won’t respond.

everyday i am thankful for not using windows.

They are totally doing it to themselves. there is just too much crap there.

I’ve gone long years without using any social media associated to my identity, as many others do, and i’ll eat my cooked shirt if I start thinking, “hey sure why not let me into this shitty internet”.

I’ll be fine without using the internet if it comes down to it, at that point it’d be a liability. Dinosaurs think they can control the internet which is a hilarious proposition in the first place.

I have nothing particular to suggest but I just want to say this sounds great and happy to see. Enjoy!

As you mentioned Linux Mint is very beginner friendly so I’d recommend that.

Thank you for your reply, this is helpful to know.

That’s what I currently do as well, I just backup particular .config subfolders and other directories. I’ll probably continue to avoid just raw transferring an entire home directory on a new install.

i love my collection. no one will take my precioussss

he’s a hero of the working class that is also standing up for the oppressed Palestinian people.

A hero

that’s a good question and I’m not sure. Worth it to find out, but personally I don’t dual boot with Windows. I just have my main linux install and use a virtual machine. I never have needed to use a windows virtual machine but it would be interesting if I could activate it with the copy that came with my laptop.

Unless that copy is registered to my microsoft account? I have no idea that’s how much I try to avoid windows now

This is the way.

On a related note, would you recommend restoring an entire home directory (including the dot files and all the dot directories) once I reinstall all the packages after a fresh install? Would it basically replicate my restored setup or would there be random issues that emerge? I’m thinking particular system settings related to kde/gnome settings, but others I might not be aware of.

It’s difficult enough for getting people to switch from whatsapp to signal.

I don’t know how successful i’d be to get people to switch to simplex.

Is there a particular reason that you don’t recommend signal?

that’s truly sad, you’re right… I think bluesky is a waste of time and mastodon varies by instance.

If there’s anything the ongoing massacre and genocide against Palestinians have shown is that you can never trust so-called democratic states to stop a genocide, and in fact either do nothing to stop it, or actively arm it, or suppress activities, journalists and students protesting this genocide.

This is a horrific stain on the so-called virtues of ‘democratic’ states and it will never be erased. This will forever be remembered and it will NOT be forgotten.

One of the many lessons of all of this is that the oppressed have only themselves to protect and support.

Until the world disarms this genocidal state there will be no security or protection or human dignity for the Palestinians. This is an essential task, to completely pressure states to embargo the genocidal state.

Twitter is filled with trash bots, fake engagements, right wing copers.

Lots of progressives continue to use twitter but I just stopped going because it’s just a trash site anyways,

can someone pleaseee think of the oligarchy PLEAAAASE.

DEMOCRACY (copyrighted/trademarked) IS AT STAKE!!

while this is welcoming news during this atrocious time of the zionist genocidal assault against Palestinians, I am curious of the details. Is this 1967 borders? What about the facts on the ground that zionism has created to make a two state model incapable?

Do we really want to normalize having a new Palestine state existing in a quasi-like existence next to this genocidal state? How far will that go? Will AOC and others say Palestine has the right to defend itself and arm it with iron dome?

Furthermore Israel should not be off the hook in the important work of dismantling colonial regimes.

The only possible way forward is to equalize existence for all peoples on the lands, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity, or who they are. Ethno-nationalist state models like zionism deserve the trashbin of history and I dare any one upholding liberal values to defend an ethno-nationalist state now or in the future, but we all know they’ve done an trash job in the past.

sir your website is not working for me

Good explanation, and I figured the same.

I feel the ‘encrypted at rest’ is then a false sense of security. Alas it is much better than gmail, etc.

They slandered his name so much during the labour leadership.

It’s about time he left a vile party.

excuse me ignorance, but I understand that once you receive mail from someone with shared pgp keys, they’d have no way to read the contents.

But when I receive an email from any service that sends me mail, or from a friend that doesn’t use PGP, it sits encrypted in my account… but how do we know proton isn’t ‘reading’ the contents when it is delivered and before it is encrypted in the account?

Is there a possibility of data mining or them storing the contents on their end? like a mirror image?