That is not surprising.

Their aiming is failing them. Fruit of the years. The older generations have that ingrained mindset that peeing is done standing, while younger people just reached the conclusion sitting down is cleaner and much more comfortable.

Well… Makes more sense than trying to robotize cars. The track is fixed and speeds and rights of passage are imposed by plain physics.

But you need tracks to implement autonomous freight trains.

I sincerely don’t know what is going on but after installing that package I was made aware that apparently the camera I have connected to my computer has a built in microphone. But which is apparently not useable as a recording device. So I have to wonder to where is that sound going.

Edit: something is seriously wrong. The microphone I have built-in to my headphones started working when I first added the package. After I disconnected the USB camera, it stopped registering on the system. And now it does not pick uo sound to record on Audacity.

That should be a crime. An electes official bound by a privately signed document? That’s rich.

You’re referring to case of an entire town council that got caught being binded by NDAs, right?

How cam those superseed the duties abd obligations elected officials have towards their constituents?

If I may.

My country has a multi-party parliament and after the local flavour of fascists found its way into it, the parties that defined themselves as center, either center-left or center-right and center-center, diverged sharply into authoritarian (even if more or less subdued or veiled) rethoric and strong-arm policy, resorting to the fascist party for support for implementing policies, being those parties currently in office.

The “left” is still what it always was: pro humanitarian, sensible to the plights of the workers, immigrants, women, LGBTQ+, etc, but gets thrown the usual mixed bag of insults and dismissals to keep the public entertained and enraged against those parties and maintain the status quo.

I understand you position but it is an unsustainable one. You have to define your stance on issues and fully reject labelling. As you carry your position it is a handful of nothing. And I do understand and respect your remark on seeing such matter reduced to tribalisms because they are but defining oneself as being right, center or left is equivalent to subscribing to a political horoscope: it’s reductionist, generalist and simply stupid.

The top?

A couple on the side of road, next to their RV, taking a shower, fully naked. Start of July. Old military truck, modified. German license plate.

With the amount of integration it achieved to facilitate services and transactions? I am very skeptical of that. I expect to happen a serious market feagmentation and a great number of bankrupties but the void will be filled by new presences.

Basic Debian

Yes, it is a bit behind the curve but it is solid, it works and can provide a solid environment for the average run of the mill user.

They prefer money.

It’s very worth the try.

I worked with seriously hardware constricted machines for years and users on a learning curve.

KDE did not make my fancy when I tried it, when first moving from Windows, 20 years ago. Not then, not now. I know it has evolved a great deal but I can’t justify commiting so much hardware resources for the DE alone. And the obcession with the K’s are a bit of a pet peeve. I’m aware I’m getting some packages from it now and then and I have to eventually try it again but tomorrow is not the eve of such day.

I used Gnome until Gnome ceased to be Gnome and reinvented itself under that smartphone aspect. Mate forked and maintained that simple approachable look and feel.

XFCE is good but I missed the dual panel on the file explorer and eventually moved from it. It also tended to force me to mannually configure sound settings, keyboard hotkeys and other small things that otherwise were readily available.

I spent some time with Bunsen Labs installed on a machine and I enjoyed the look and feel. Conky was the jewel for me. But I had other users on that machine that didn’t adapt.

A short stint on Enlightenment. Not my cup of tea. Deepin was a disappointment. And I couldn’t motivate myself to manually configure a tile manager. I want a computer, not another hobby.

I used LXQT for some time but I felt it lacking. Very light and very fast but… Cinnamon is a nope for me, personally, but I have set it up for others and people enjoyed it, even more when coming from Windows.

But isn’t this the beauty of Linux? There is an option for everyone. Like you very well put it: you do you.

Doesn’t Mint just configures Cinnamon as default DE and leaves the rest alone, working from the stable branch? That’s my understanding.

I also run Debian. One desktop and three laptops. I run Mate, normally. The best compromise between useability and DE resource use. But I’ve used XFCE and LXDE.

Of course it is cruel and stupid. An isolated event would be bad enough but the US government seems to be on a streak to inflict easily avoidable distress and suffering to the population. It’s calous behaviour. Anywhere else, people would be housted and prosecuted for gross negligence and incompetence.

My understanding is that Mint focus development of LMDE around Cinnamon but the other DEs are there nonetheless, untouched, like Debian releases it.

Really?

I always vote for boredom, which means I vote for Debian. It’s a well rounded, reliable and solid OS. It can be a bit dated on some packages but it rewards with very low maintenance. It works. It does what it is supposed to do, which is allowing us to run and use our computer as we see fit.

You want something a bit more up to date? Move to Mint. If Debian still appeals to you, move to LMDE.

This is a cruel thing to say but from an outside perspective, seems like the US government is forcing a diet on the population. Brutal but efficient to address that overweight problem.

Edit: for real? Isn’t the /s obvious?

They’re making their bed, they better lie in it when it’s time. Even if it’s on fire. And full of rusty nails.

Are we taking numbers on the AI craze bust already? I say in the next six months, to a year.