This was not a vote for leadership. It was a vote for one of our houses. Unless the president decides to play nice (spoiler: he won’t), we won’t have a prime minister from any left party, causing things to be difficult for the right but not impossible, as there are provision to force some laws to pass for the prime minister, and outright impossible for the left to do anything because they’re unlikely to get support from a right-oriented prime minister, and are unlikely to get an actual majority vote on anything.

Basically, unless something really unexpected happens, this will result in a stalemate for a while. Which is, admittedly, the lesser of two evils, but kinda sucks anyway.

For a lot of project “compiling yourself”, while obviously more involved than running some magic install command, is really not that tedious. Good projects have decent documentation in that regard and usually streamline everything down to a few things to configure and be done with it.

What’s aggravating is projects that explicitly go out of their way to make building them difficult, removing existing documentation and helper tools and replacing them with “use whatever we decided to use”. I hate these.

Fair. Also, flatpak does not try to break everything by default, which is a plus.

I like the “encryption, but we have the keys” approach. Makes it very secure, especially since MS never had any security breach or leak, ever.

HTTPS isn’t only about encryption; it’s about talking to the right servers.

.txz, I’m too lazy to type the full name

They’re not very good at it, are they? :D

I’m trying a new approach. Since I won’t touch anything beyond W10, and W10 is getting officially phased out, I just informed people that I won’t provide tech support for W11 and beyond.

Russia on its quest to find something it can fight and win against.

Physicists are warry about splitting atoms; historians are warry about splitting Germany.

“And now, I’ll make these allegations disappear!”

Not at all. I’m arguing that often, the issues, and fixes, are not distribution-dependant. Which is a good thing; it means we can go to arch forum and find fixes that can be applied in other distros most of the time, for example.

But people keep pitting them against each other like they’re some form of evolved lifeforms that necessarily have to erase others, when a lot of the issues are just generic software issues.

And, since this is already a justification post I’ll take the lead and note that it does not mean that there is no distribution-specific issues. Of course there are. The point is that most software issue in distribution X will have the same cause and fix in distribution Y, and often have nothing to do with either specific distributions.

People keep arguing about this or that distro.

Linux distributions are just a collection of software, initial settings, and sometimes online repository.

“New device detected: mouse. Please wait…”

But the mouse is already working dude.

Heck, I have errors in windows log that are just “sure, let’s move on”.

It was the only name on there.

It’s ok, they just started the “security first” initiative, we’re all saved.

Kids don’t get addicted to sugar much if there isn’t much sugar intake occasion. I’m sure they checked the market and found that they could sell more sugar-based product later with this initial push.

There is no software solution that protects from a crowbar, you have to go to the hardware side.

You really are missing the point that if the device is rooted there is nothing an app can do to protect itself. Defense in depth is layering (sometimes overlapping) solutions that do something. Detecting root and saying “nuh-uh” is not doing anything.