It has all the goodness of Ubuntu without the noise. A common sense UI with solid default options and great customizability.

I have tried a lot of different distros and Mint is the one I keep coming back to. I run it on my daily driver laptop, my gaming rig and my media center in the living room with MythTV. Could not be happier.

Notepadqq is a thing, you know.

Stop spying on us.

Privacy problems are not policy problems, businesses are choosing to invasively collect data in order to pad their coffers. This is not welcome and just because you try to hide this fact in obfuscated policy language it is not ok.

I would focus on getting top posters from Reddit to move over or at least cross post.

I’m a little bit in shock. My daughter’s school play is called The Trials. It’s about a dystopian future where, due to the global climate crisis they are forced to euthanize a portion of the population. Basically the younger generation put the older generation on trial and execute you, if you found guilty. My daughter basically told me I would likely be found guilty and executed. And I am a vegan who rides my bike to work. Its a bit sobering to think about.

A defined benefit pension puts market risks on the company. A 401k puts the market risk on the individual.

When my kids were younger I monitored their usage and restricted their access. As they earned trust this eased up. Now that they are teens they are mostly free to do what they want. I will still ask what they use their phones for and we have frank conversations about it, but I will not invade their privacy unless there is a good reason.

This is like coming up with an original name for a D&D character: you just put together sounds until you get something that sounds cool. Here is one:

Bryo-Kernatz

Once you have the name it helps you imagine the character it might belong too.

First commentor missed the Cassandra side effect: you can do nothing to change it and no one believes you.

Rush - Tom Sawyer

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I have used my Yubikey to do FIDO2 auth on Linux Mint with Chromium and Firefox. I have tried M365, Twitter and Facebook but any website that supports FIDO2 should work.

Did not need to install any OS components.

Go to https://vger.app and you can run Voyager as a PWA.

I use LMDE on my gaming PC and my daily driver laptop. It works great and I could not be happier. That said I tried using LMDE on a media PC and I struggled to get MythTV to work. I switched to Ubuntu-Mint and it just worked. My conclusion is that while LMDE is fine for most things, Ubuntu-Mint gives you all of that you get with LMDE plus compatibility with Ubuntu stuff as well. I am not immediately switching off LMDE, but I will be less likely to stick with it in the future when upgrading.

My experience with a number of bug zappers was that, while they did zap some number of mosquitos, this was not enough to prevent other mosquitos from biting us. On the other hand a good strong fan can act as an area denial defense. Not always easy/possible to have a good strong fan going, so YMMV.

Bug zappers dont work too well. A fan can be more effective in some cases depending on your circumstances.

99% so far. I rarely open Reddit at all aymore.

Canadian Geese. They are super aggressive but cannot hurt you.

I used Android for over a decade. Then recently my work bought me an iPhone. My biggest struggle was finding a replacement for Reddit Is Fun, until I found Apollo. I mourned for its loss until I found Lemmy and Wewef. In the end a phone is a phone but Lemmy is life!

I got a TRS-80 color computer that same year. Now I am an IT pro with 20+ years of experience.