DaddleDew @ DaddleDew @lemmy.world

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My banking app. It has been years since I last checked if it works, maybe it works now but I don't care. I just use the browser to do my banking.

Can we take away Trump's citizenship?

If no country wants to have him, I'm OK with dumping him in international waters on a raft.

I run GrapheneOS because it gives me full control over what my phone does and gives me the ability to restrict access to anything on all applications or uninstall any application I don't want on my phone even if it causes some functionalities to break.

This is how all devices should be by default.

Had lawmakers gotten their heads out of their asses and made actually having control over a device that you own like this a legal requirement for all devices, I wouldn't need to be using GrapheneOS.

I'm surprised it didn't fall over when he opened the door

I've just learned that the latest Trixie version of Debian runs Plasma 6 as well. Another route to explore depending how new your hardware is.

It is also to be noted that this means that Plasma 6 support will likely trickle down to Linux Mint through Linux Mint Debian Edition 7. Eventually, maybe. If that happens, it will become a solid package for users who want a very stable, approachable and easy to use distro that is compatible with KDE Plasma 6. It might not come pre-packaged with KDE Plasma, but it should be relatively simple and quick to follow a walkthrough to install it after since at its core it will be compatible with it.

I recommend BTRFS with snapper for anyone who isn't an expert, which includes myself.

With BTRFS with Snapper, should something break your install short of breaking your bootloader, it makes recovery completely idiot proof.

It is literally a matter of scrolling through a menu that appears for 3 seconds at startup to select an option in the lines of "boot from snapshot", pick a snapshot in the list that is time stamped to a time/date when your install still worked, let it boot up, make sure your OS started up fine, go in the console and enter the command "sudo snapper rollback" (which will tell the system to make the snapshot you are currently running the default one), enter your password and then reboot. Bam, you've just rolled back your OS to a point before it got broken. You don't even need to understand what broke it to begin with.

It saved my ass a few times already. Trying to recover a broken operating system without this tool requires a whole lot more knowledge than I have.

The problem with writing smart characters who solve problems using their wits is that you need smart and hardworking writers to pull it off.

Otherwise you end up with shitty cop-outs like having the character invent and build some impossible contraption that wouldn't even believably work or relying on an incredibly unlikely sequence of events to happen for their plan to work.

I think what matters more for a beginner is the desktop environment (DE). For someone coming from Windows I recommend using KDE Plasma for a DE. Ever since Plasma 6 it has become one of the best DE out there.

I've used:

• Mint : Solid, easy, but runs Cinnamon as a DE, which is OK and looks nice but lacks functionality for multiple displays. You can switch it to KDE Plasma but it is unofficially supported and can only run Plasma 5 which is was not a mature version IMO. It is glitchy and lacks the functionalities that makes Plasma 6 complete. Ultimately if you are using a single monitor Mint is a great choice, just stick to Cinnamon.
• OpenSUSE Tumbleweed : It runs Plasma 6 out of the box. It also allows you to easily set up BTRFS Snapshot (a solid and easy to use recovery mode should something break your install) and encryption right at the install setup. If I remember well, Mint also has that support. It was remarkably stable for a rolling release distribution but I did have to use the Snapshot rollback a few times, mostly because NVidia kept messing up its driver updates. It is also a slightly oddball distro so you might sometimes encounter something that needs a minor workaround or require slightly different commands to work, something I always found a solution to with a quick internet search. The rolling release also means there are tons of updates coming out almost every day, which gets annoying after a while. Their package manager (zypper) is also relatively slow, not supporting parallel downloads yet. They are currently testing a Slow Release version (as opposed to Tumbleweed which is the rolling release version) that would tame it down but it's not officially released yet.
• I'm now running Fedora KDE and I'm happy with it. It is easy to install and it just works. It is relatively mainstream so things work better. It is also very stable. The caveat being that the installation process doesn't include any support for easily setting up BTRFS snapshots and encrypted home folder. There is however a very solid step by step instructions video on YouTube on how to set it up and explaining what and why you are doing at every step that I used to set it up for myself. It is quite the process however and the installer has changed slightly since the video was made so there was a bit of hunting around.

They all work relatively easily with their own pros and cons.

I haven't tried it personally, but I think that Kububtu could also be an option for you . It is the KDE Plasma version of the most popular Linux distribution.

IMO as long as you don't pick something like Arch and don't mind doing a few quick web searches when you have questions it should be fine.

Such a tragedy that Trump doesn't sunbathe though.

Coming up next week: Captchas where you have to click on all the pictures containing non-white people

Or starts running over non-white pedestrians

While everyone is working tirelessly at trying to control a disaster that is being exacerbated by climate change, Karen demands to talk to the manager.

For those who don't know: Edmonton is where the military prison is. Referred to as "Club Ed" by members and is known to be a living hell designed specifically to break you through non-stop work and makes regular civilian prison look like a vacation. You have to be an absolute piece of shit like these guys to end up in that correctional facility. They are guaranteed to not be the same when they get out of there.

The CAF doesn't mess around with people like these so if you think they are representative of the CAF as a whole you are wrong.

It was trained using posts made by cunts after all

You realize that what these shit pumps were doing wasn't approved by the military and now that the forces know about it they will be dishonorably kicked out so hard they'll have the taste of boot polish in their mouths, right?

Finally figured out that Putin lies to him. Probably the last person on the planet to do so.

You might have to wait if what you have is a non life threatening condition as people who have a life-threatening condition will take priority over you no matter who you are. It is the trade-off for a more cost effective system. But after you've received your treatment you leave the hospital without even seeing a bill except maybe for a parking fee.

Meanwhile in the US, unless you are wealthy enough to afford to pay for your own healthcare or at least a premium health insurance you are left to wait with life threatening conditions and might even be left to die by your insurance company who will purposefully delay until your death to maximize their profits. And then they'll still send you an eye-watering bill on top of having charged you a premium that is twice what Canadians pay in their taxes for their healthcare.

At the rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if most of that money will end up in the pockets of new American oligarchs.

Every time I watch a clip of Fox News talking about Canada, it feels like watching the equivalent of what North Korea propaganda probably says about South Korea in their news. It is pure disinformation and propaganda trying to convince their audience that the outside world is different and scary and that they are in the best place in the world. They know their target audience hasn't and never will travel outside of their own state to know any better.