Bigger is always better. For hardware.

On the other hand, less is always more for software.

Might as well bump it to 64 GB and an LLM chip since in 5 years’ time people might like Copilot & Friends spying a bit less on them.

What do you mean it’s not a review?

If a congressional comitee and a few invitees (such as POTUS) reviewing golf clubs together in a courtroom isn’t a judicial review, I don’t know what is.

Politics is the science and art of organizing, constituting and managing

If politics is the art and science of anything, that something is spreading corruption and attaining personal gain at thr cost of general society.

This is where a man page comes in but alas, but some (perhaps even most) of them are fucking horrible. The core incantation is either too dumbed-down or (more often) too long-winded.

Some good ones I can praise are netcat, ghostscript and 7z. Special praise goes to the Library Funtions Manual entries like signal and exit.

Bad ones ones in my book are vim (too short), ffmpeg (a simple reordering of sections would make it quite a bit better, like moving the less common flags lower down the page) and git starts of strong but ends up being way too detailed and unstructured.

I could go listing examples for days, so I might as well stop now.

Well, of course anything he does has to be strong as he can’t seem weak in front of his somehow-still-existing sheep heard.

Well, duh. Do you think Mother Nature won’t “hold” new generations “accountable” once ours destroy the planet with fossil fuels?

Less speedrunning, more maxing out the score.

I mean, if someone is responsible enough to brethalyze themselves, they should also be responsible enough to not drive. Hooking the brethalyzer up to the car to disable it seems like a terrible idea.

Deoending on the way it’s implemented, a bad one could brick a car for hours if someone drunk tries it, but there are perfectly sober people who could drive. Or y’know, this shit with someone coming on and remotely disabling things all willy-nilly.

Olive oil?

In american cars?

Clearly american mucscle cars require maple syrup!

Wait, are you telling me…

…that a device meant to disable a vehicle…

…was used to disable a vehicle?

Whould’ve thought?

Discover itself doesn’t care about security - it’s the underlying package manager(s) that do.

Flatpak is perfectly safe IMO, as are the built-in repositories.

Both Flatpak reviewers and Debian maintaniers do their due diligence when auditing the software they distribute.

When using distros/repos which are less FOSS purist (such as Ubuntu), you could run primarily into privacy issues. When using smaller ones, the risk of a backdoor or voulnerability is a bit larger, as less eyes are on the code.

That being said, the only way to be immune to untargeted cyberattacks is to be offline, which isn’t reasonable in this day and age. As long as you stick to your distro’s repo and Flatpak you should be perfectly fine, save for the “normal” voulnerability or two that unfortunately slip through every now and then. You could think of this as a kind of digital “herd immunity”.

As long as you don’t add repos willy-nilly but think about who you trust, you should be fine.

So yeah - you can assume Flatpaks and the Debian repos are safe. They have good security policies about adding stuff in and do do their due dilligence. Though, this might change in the future, alrhough it doesn’t seem likely. But for now - you’ll be fine.

The only real risk is if a backdoor like the recent one in xz-utils does slip through the cracks, but then you’ll be one of millions of affected machines which, while not mitigating the vulnerabilities per se will at least mean the problem will get fixed sooner once it does get found.

No, there are.

The “teachings of Jesus” seem just fine: stuff like love thy neighbour no matter what (aka don’t hate minorities), let the one without sins throw rocks first (aka don’t judge), throwing a tantrum at money changers (aka communist).

If only Christians looked up to the one and only character they literally believe is God in human form and try following his actions.

But alas, those Christians are “Christians”, and most know more abot the teachings of Thomas Aquinas than Jesus Christ.

“The most uneditable proprietary shit in the world that’s somehow nonproprietary and ultra popular but really has no right to be any of these”

Aka one of the biggest paradoxes of modern computing.

So, how do you say “J” then?

“ᒋ”?

It isn’t Jason, it’s Jayson. But yeah, basically indistinguishable.

And the only sane choice, as opposed to Sequel.

What will likely happen is that if you try to log into your Facebook account you will get a message that says “Your Operating System is not currently supported. Your user experience will be limited to Groups labeled “Everyone”.”

That’s basically it. Your personal user experience will be limited to “kid friendly” areas of the Internet. (Same with apps and games.)

Well, that makes no sense because that means that using an unvetted machine is more beneficial for groomers and predators than a vetted one. Meaning they’ll be incentivized to use that, instead of some perfect system where they’d be easily trackable and held accountable.

All the “App Store” apps like Discover are merely frontends for your system’s underlying package manager (apt for Debian and derivatives, dnf for Fedora and its derivatives).

The underlying package manager does the updating of packages: if you’ve installed it through the package manager (which is usually most stuff on an install) - it’ll get updated.

Discover just gives you a nice, user-friendly way of interfacing with the package manager(s) on your system so you don’t need to bother with the CLI if you don’t want to (that’s what “frontend” means - a nice, friendly UI for underlying services).

And yes, you can have multiple - for example apt and Flatpak. Discover and friends should update all.

Well, it is good at something. Spending money on advertising.

My recommendations are Firefox, Okular, Inkscape and Draw, depending on usecase.

Firefox is perfect for text-based markup (so higlighting, defacing with text, etc.)

Okular is a bit worse on the text front (doesn’t support editing the markup - for most stuff your only option is to undo so you have to be strategic abput catching mistakes early), but it does more stuff (boxes, arrows, lines, transparency, custom colors).

Draw is better if you actually want to make changes to many pages at once and don’t care if it messes up formatting a bit.

Inkscape is ideal if you want to rearrange stuff on a few pages and change things like colors or stamp on some text. It doesn’t have a nice way for highlighting text, but highlighting stuff like drawings, etc. is easier (just draw a recrangle with 30% opacity). Unlike Okular, changes aren’t baked in and unlike Draw, it’s easier to play around with colors and opacity.