i just used a third-party mirror. found one that was better and faster than ubuntu’s own ever has been for me:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
in case launchpad isn’t accessible:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260425125013/https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
for ‘ports’, see here as well, which directs you to this mirror:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror/ftp.tu-chemnitz.de-archive
the closed-source version of the internet.
i do this, too, sometimes… but i don’t make rounded cuts–that’s just all kinds of messed up.
even the crappy old bobcat-based (slow af amd apu) laptops i have here run with lid closed (they run piholes and what-not).
that’s the true ‘average’ person. they don’t know. they don’t understand. they don’t even want to know. they just use this magic thing that shows stuff from the internet. they don’t even know what a bookmark is, they just ‘google’ for everything. even google, ffs.
in my ‘rural’ part of the u.s., sub-1mbit dsl is common outside of town, and expensive–if you even have that option at all. cellular service sucks and there are no fixed wireless services, so satellite is the only other game available…if you don’t have bluffs, hills, or trees obstructing your view.
one of their earliest acquisitions, way tf back in '98
i had one back in the earliest of days and used to add missing data to credits. i still occasionally catch myself trying to use ‘us.imdb.com’ as its address.
in the uk, the ingredients list for mcd french fries is literally potatoes, oils (rapeseed, sunflower), dextrose (when needed–i.e. early crops that are low in naturally-occurring sugars). salt added after cooking. source
very much different than what they use in the u.s., which introduces multiple allergens. source
have you looked at fedora’s plasma mobile spin? https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde-mobile/
and they’ve used magicband wristband trackers and rfid ticket cards for over a decade.
the alternative is manually (and somewhat regularly during your hardware’s support period) searching a manufacturer’s web site for a bios update, hoping that your bios has a built-in flasher or there being at least a boot disk or ‘dos’ flasher you can slap on a usb to do it… lvfs is a good thing.
don’t see 'em loaded here, either. trixie (dietpi) server, aurora (f44) desktop
the qr itself is just a link to a recaptcha web page with a unique identifier in the url.
the magic is all hidden in the required app that’s linked to your google account and device, and the interactions that take place between it and google’s servers once it sees that code or link.
yea, ubuntu ‘failing’ is news to me, too. their infrastructure has been hammered by bad actors, and pre-release daily spins were at-times a bit rocky, but the release itself (barring a few potential issues on the desktop with all the changes) seems to be solid.
much smaller target so far fewer people are looking for holes in bsd, subsequently there are fewer reported ‘issues’.
and if you tasked all the persons and organizations looking for holes in linux to do the same to bsd…
as large hardware vendors, i’m pretty sure they were to getting to the point where they would lose features or even access to the service if they didn’t start paying-in.
if these age checks ask female users to pan the camera down towards their chests, that’s gonna be a problem. a big giant huge problem.
well, they are putting more water in mass market cold cuts these days…
there’s a backdoor built right into bitlocker in the form of ‘recovery keys’–and for most users, microsoft knows what they are.