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Mint is another good one, I would probably recommend against their Debian Edition(LMDE 6) though, it sounds good but, it’s their newer system so it doesn’t have all the bugs ironed out yet. I struggled with LMDE when I tried it last summer, which granted a lot of time has passed, but I rarely ever have an issue with their standard Linux Mint releases.

letters aren’t going to do anything, neither will striking.

The current System does not legally give many ways to impeach an elected official.

It is impossible to legally remove a president from power outside of election season without the legislative branch.

Furthermore, there is no federal level system in place to allow for a recall of anyone in the legislative branch, some states have successfully implemented state level recall laws to revoke their elected officials but this is not a universal thing). Disciplinary functions in the legislative branch is predominantly decided by the branches themselves, which works fine if you have a functional branch, but if you have a branch that really doesn’t care then no punishments get done

The most the everyday citizen can really do is:

1. if you are in a state that has an elected official that is being toxic/against what your state actually wants, try to encourage a state recall petition (if you are in one of the 36(12 of which need specific actions to occur to trigger it) states that allow for it AND something has occurred that was ground for your states requirements for it)
2. try to add such a system to your state if one does not exist (which would likely have to be on the ballot as well so would take awhile)
3. or further educate yourself on what is going to be available on the 2026 midterms and vote accordingly.

I don’t think there is much else anyone can immediately do that might actually get anything done.

if you liked the design of older style windows (think like windows XP), you could look into Q4OS. I use it for my laptop and it’s Debian based so you will have pretty decent support applications wise and it has a pretty simple UI. I had never heard of it prior to a few months ago but I have had no issues with it.

Being said, I can’t remember if it has UnattendedUpgrades by default, but that program can be configured on any debian based system to allow for automatic updates. It does take a little bit of configuration if it isn’t pre-installed though.

But you have heard of me~

#hadto

I just don’t go to social interactions, easier

the amount of software I’ve used that lacks this type of system is aggravating. How hard is it to keep an object of property names, and if the name isn’t in it then it errors.

this can be continued into command line as well. if flag -z doesn’t exist, you shouldn’t allow me to run a command with it. It’s clear I am trying to do something (incorrectly) thinking -z is something it isn’t, just error it and tell me that.

Because it’s universal, it works, it’s multi-platform, device agnostic and it’s simple to use user side.

Nothing else available really fits that criteria.

The closest in todays age is probally discord or teams, but neither of which are decentralized. XMPP could work for it, but nobody really uses it anymore and to be honest the standard is ugly as hell to implement.

Browser Notifications are ineffective and have a high probability of failing or not being seen, they are more meant for real-time notices not historical notices not to mention locked to that browser.

App notifications would be amazing for things with apps, but not everyone wants to be forced into using their mobile device for everything, and it would again only be available from said app(unless you do use something like NTFY), which would generally be locked down to a device

Email sucks admin side, but there’s a reason its used.

This is also ignoring the multi-use case that email allows for such as authentication as well, so if its already being stored for accounts, might as well use it for notifications

hard agree, I hate browser notifications with a hard passion, I would never see them if they swapped to that.

this is likely youtube’s way of trying to persuade people into making an account, without going public that they are forcing people to make accounts.

I found it does that if im logged out on a VPN, but standard residential IP’s it doesn’t with.

I assume eventually it’s going to just require a google account to use the service period

huh, I learned a few new words today

for others who want to know

• Jingoism: noun

  1. Extreme Nationalism characterized by a belligerent foreign policy

  2. A bellicose patriotism; aggressive chauvinism; belligerence in international relations

• Bellicose: adjective

  1. warlike or hostile in manner or temperment

  2. inclined to war or contention

  3. warlike in nature/aggressive;hostile

• Chauvinism: noun

  1. Militant devotion to and glorification of one’s country; fanatical patriotism.

  2. Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one’s own gender, group, or kind.

  3. Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

my only complaint about it is the lack of clear “hey this is going to be a major update” on the webUI. I did the update command and was met with a different UI. Which wasn’t difficult to figure out, and I have to blame myself for not actually checking the patch notes first, but I wasn’t expecting a major update from the webUI as it only said “new version available run this command to upgrade”

the upgrade as a whole is all and all a great improvement

the article states that when a company is sold, they need to renegotiate a new contract. So it looks like it does automatically terminate on sale, and it would be up to them to make a new contract.

I assume the person meant that they could make a new contract with the new names if they wanted to.

Jokes aside, this is an amazing book series, I loved it

It seems he wasn’t banned from Fortnite, just from participating in tournaments. So he may very well cheat in fortnite again, as his account wasn’t banned.

Being said, nice of them to donate the winnings to charity, half expected them to just keep the money.

Yeah it seems I misunderstood what those tablets were,

I did find the old Samsung Tab tablets that would do pretty decent job though, those are somewhat around the same price range too, like 70-140ish range preowned

And looking into the kobo clara series it does look like those are about 120-130 second hand currently so not as bad

unfortunately though, due to the same issues there isn’t a very large second hand market of those either. Like the cheapest remarkable second hand I could find was still 300$ and the cheapest pine note was 270$ for preowns.

when you compare it to the kindle which has preowns starting at 40$ it’s a hard buy

yea, but I feel like it’s worth saying that steamdeck (where most of the steamos instances are) runs primarily in steam mode, and runs immutable OS by default so it’s pretty hard to actually mess that up. Plus steam manages most updates for you instead of you managing the updating yourself, which also helps remove the skill factor.

Me logging onto Skype after so many years