Honestly? It is.

Getting a understanding of what you do is something that is moving towards “lost arts” territory regarding everything computer related. Yeah, you will not get the solution to your problem THAT FAST, but if you find out why the thing you want to do did not work and understand how to make it work you will benefit in the long run.

If you only use software that is created by people you like… well… i guess your only choice will be an abacus…

I am no jew, i am a German christian and i recognize the patterns the so called “Palestine supporters” are using to spread their hate for Israel’s actions towards jews. You all who celebrate that this ship was turned away would have been proud Nazis back in the day. Think about yourself and think about where you would have stand in the 40s.

Funny you… you can separate Greece and its population, but the same rule doesn’t apply to Israel… really funny…

Are those soldiers or politicians on the cruise?

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In reality, what Chromebooks provide is a reinvention of the good old mainframe and terminal principle. In theory (like my recent - half joking - 9front comment) this is something that would be really easy to set up with nearly all Linux systems and especially immutable ones.

My take would be:

Put an sign up / sign in form as a “first boot” message in a distribution of your choice where you can specify (or have pre-filled by an organisation) a central server (could be something fancy like Nextcloud or something simple rsync based) where your whole profile folder gets synced to. After that: If anything goes kaputt just roll back the sync. Or “powerwasch” (to keep the ChromeOS terminology) the system to a clean state and re-sync your home folder.

In theory something that could all be implemented with a little scripting in an afternoon.

Just to set the record straight:

It very much did.

Do you think every SS guard, every SA man and every Wehrmacht soldier who was participating in atrocities was prosecuted? Nah, i would argue that only perhaps 2 - 5 % (if ever) of the participating officials where put on trial and only a low number of those got harsh sentences.

9front (with enough volunteers and a modern browser) could be exactly that.

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Perhaps they would not be afraid of the community… but what about organized crime?

You deny that other police forces mask up to prevent harm for themself or their families?

In a way it’s understandable… if there is a chance that you might be targeted for doing your job then wearing a mask is the right choice to protect yourself and your family.

I mean, it’s not THAT uncommon: SEK and other more “militarized” police units in Germany also wear masks during raids for the same reason.

I use Devuan and TDE because the setup is so incredible boring and dusty that i do not have to get acquainted with anything new (SystemD, Wayland… whatever hipster WM is currently cool) and keep working with the tools i like.

Well, look at it the other way around:

Those niche places act like a filter, pretty much alike as the whole internet was about ~20 years ago. Yeah, there may be fewer people around, but those people tend to be quiet a bit more interesting.

Nah, “the rest of us” is ruining the internet by following the people in the top of the trash pit.

You know… nobody is stopping you from self hosting, building a website or digging a gopherhole?

Devuan + Trinity Desktop

Moved over there since Debian switched to Sytemd. It is boring, dusty… but it works and stays out of my way.

I still doesn’t like it…

Flatpaks together with “immutable” distributions, Wayland and systemd are a heresy, a crime against the UNIX principles, a disgrace in the eyes of of SED and AWK. REPENT! Save your immortal core dumps and return to the one true /home !

Well… if you look a the history of the US you COULD argue that most of its inhabitants are offspring of illegal immigrants, sooo…