Fonzie!

If I found the correct repo it seems like it’s MIT licenced which is very permissive, as well.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils?tab=MIT-1-ov-file

• ability to rollback to previous versions

I think apt handles this, as well, no?

All the other reasons are very valid, though! Especially the transactional updates!

And they give you more control over the permissions that you give the application; packages from apt, yay, etc. get full filesystem access by default even if they contain a bug or malicious code, flatpaks can be walled off by you very well.

Ah that makes sense, thanks!

the laptops mostly use Intel x86 chips

I mean, I’d be happy to see them ship ARM laptops in the vein of Apple’d M chips or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So their laptops were running Android?

Reading the article it was a closed source OS, with their own closed-source Linux-based kernel.

I once freed 28 GB using find ~/Downloads/ -mtime +30 -delete

Honestly, I could do and have done Unreal, Unity and (easily) Godot development on less!

But that’s the minimum to spend for a very comfortable experience, I’d say; RX7900 and GTX 4090 are only there for bragging, while an on-board GPU would not be comfortable running game graphics in my opinion but I’ve seen people do it and not complain :/

Off-topic but:

Linux Mint
GPU: AMD RX7600XT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
RAM: 16GB DDR4

That’s surprisingly mid-range, I don’t think I ever see that; just budget specs or bragging-level specs. As someone with almost the same build (Ryzen 7 4700GE, RX7700XTX, 16 GB DDR4) I’m positively surprised!

Checking their profile, they do seem to be a furry, yeah!

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop, after all ;-)

This is not a good place to recommend commercial services.

Not that bad by far. We have laws protecting our rights to peacefully protest even if it does disrupt infrastructure (blocking roads or entrances is the usual form of protest due to this)

I didn’t know protesting could be dangerous in the US; getting arrested and serving a few months in jail for the greater good is one thing but I’ve seen news of US officers straight up killing people they didn’t like (esp. of African descent)

I think we can both agree you’re quite an exception.

I’m not American, and protesting in the Netherlands is not going to do anything. That said, sincerely, if there are things I could do against who’s in power of the US right now, as it’s concerning Russia, Ukraine and possibly the safety of even my country, I’d love to know!

If it makes me seem slightly more credible, I’ve been in a protest against the police’s policy not to defend gay people, even as a straight person. Two gay men were beaten up in Arnhem a few years ago and the police decided to kind of “meh“ it off even if they wouldn’t do this when it concerned straight people. Needless to say thousands protested.

So seeing Americans casually suggest to just shuffle money so that you have less chance of fascists finding you while not doing anything not even trying to vote them out completely shocks me!

my country they literally helped elect one

Huh? Source? What country?

John Oliver’s show is doing amazing things, including the Drumpfinator addon.

What is that URL, though? I’m guessing I’m know it if I (happily) watch the episode?

Adding that this would work even if OP uses full disk encryption, as it’s encrypted with a passphrase; just double-click the drive in the file manager and enter the encryption passphrase when prompted (NOT a sudo password!)

Myeah… That sounds like something I’d get angry enough to strike over rather than to put my head down and “survive through it”, but that might be easier for me to say living not in the US.

Yep.

That and this are completely unrelated.

If you need to hide who you are so much, you should fight it or get out.