Also, in Windows when you finally do run the program it just hangs with “Not responding”.

How’s your family doing?

He’s addressing the real problems of society: people trying to save the planet, people trying to learn, people trying to use the bathroom without getting beaten up.

This may be due to manufacturers locking their machines down with Secure Boot and only installing the keys that allow it to boot Windows. It’s not something that could be fixed by the makers of the Linux install disk. They’d need to persuade the hardware manufacturer to preinstall their key.

I install Linux on many machines each year, and I can’t even remember the last time I had a problematic installation. Your experience sounds quite unusual. Are you using some obscure distro?

It’s worth reading the whole article, because it makes pretty clear that it was Israeli forces that did this, that they initially struck the ambulances and then proceeded to execute the people in them, and that there were other slaughters of civilians involved in the same action.

You could use any trustworthy sync service with automatic camera uploads, but they will all wait until the video has finished recording before uploading it. Ideally there would be an app that streams live to a remote server that’s recording. There used to be. A sync service might be second best though.

Do any dash cams stream to the cloud or a self-hosted server? If the police spot the dashcam they may just delete the footage.

You need something that streams to a secure server, so the police can’t just delete the video.

The concern about using Chromium-based browsers is just that, if they become utterly dominant, Google gains de facto control of all web standards.

There are tarpits like Nepenthes but they use up your CPU resources and I imagine it would be pretty easy to update a scraper to recognize these generated pages, since they’re all structurally similar.

Half of the time when I press the Windows key Windows does nothing at all, or pops up an empty box where the Start menu should be and leaves me wondering whether it will eventually fill the box with things. When I finally get to click an icon, half the time nothing happens, or maybe the menu disappears and then nothing happens. But programs are so slow to launch that you don’t know for sure nothing happened, so you have to wait half a minute before trying again. Then 2 instances of your app launch together. And then there’s the constant focus stealing in Windows, still unfixed after decades.

I really don’t get how people can prefer that interface to basically any of the Linux ones. They’re all faster and more functional than Windows. I do understand the issue with specialist photo, video or music software though. I still need to keep a Windows machine (physical or virtual) handy for the Affinity suite, Ableton Live, and legacy projects in Visual Studio. But my daily computing experience has been so much smoother, faster and more relaxing since I switched to Linux, and I think most ordinary users would actually have an easier time with something like Linux Mint than with Windows.

It’s the first rolling distro I have tried, and I’ve been running it for about 3 years now without any real problems. I think maybe twice there have been updates that cause issues, out of hundreds of updates per week. It’s surprisingly solid, and everything’s up to date.

Not everyone would want hundreds of updates per week of course, but it’s up to the user to decide how often to install updates. Unlike Windows, the updates don’t intrude, and they are fast.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed helps because you can create a btrfs snapshot at any moment and then roll back to it if you get in trouble. And it does this automatically whenever you update the packages.

The other type I see is people who complain that Linux isn’t usable, and it gradually turns out that the only thing they’d consider usable is an OS exactly like Windows.

Someone else replied to say it was incorrect.

Don’t you have to install that? I thought Ubuntu came with vi and nano.

A laptop should easily handle a database of 60,000 rows. I run much bigger databases on my own laptop for development purposes.

allying with Russia

Russia is as untrustworthy as Trump. Alliance with Russia promises nothing good.

He wasn’t worth the trouble.