I’ve found that any of the top distros work just fine. It’s the Desktop Environment that I interact with most often, so I’d spend some time studying which is most comfortable. (I’m a Gnome man myself.) Go to distrowatch.com as they do a pretty good job describing each distro and their standard packages.

I have zero brand loyalty when it comes to phones. The wife has a Xiaomi and an old Huawei she uses as an iPod. I’m using a Realme that I bought after my Samsung died.

“He’ll see everything…he’ll see the big board!”

Unaware. Just grabbed the first example from a search.

I do not live in the US and Pixel phones are virtually non existent here. Unless I can load it on Samsung, Huawei, Vivo, or OPPO, it’s not of much use. I have seen Harmony for offer on a few Huawei phones out of my price range, so have to wait on more market saturation.

I’ve concluded that the only way I will be able to dump Android or iOS in the near future is with Harmony NextOS. Yeah, my data will be in the hands of the Chinese, but that sounds preferable to the US, NATO, and 5-Eyes at the moment. Maybe Burkina Faso will save us all by manufacturing and releasing an open source, repairable phone.

“…sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

A bulkanized US would certainly be good for the planet, assuming it survived the preliminary civil wars as nation state boundaries are created and alliances made with Canada and Mexico. Who gains control of all the nukes would be a big question.

The. Constructivist Era of the Soviet Union; abstract art meets cubism meets the proletariat.

No one is shocked by Isntreal making a statement like this, it’s what they do. It’s the western governments’ propaganda media reporting of it as 100% true, while providing zero context for how it could happen, that makes my blood boil.

I pay cash for my used cars, but I only buy from individuals, never dealers. People selling cars seldom invest in covering up problems, and they are more than happy to receive cash. There can also be a bit of a difference between the official paperwork price and the amount that actually changes hands.

Money, always follow the money.

DPRK, the voice of reason.

And this is why we can never have nice things.

I was mostly pointing out that the media is ignoring what is actually a big event in tech. I definitely don’t think Denmark should use KylinOS, but studying the Chinese government’s implementation of a non-Windoze system could help reduce some pitfalls. I believe Kylin started as a BSD variant, but they switched to Linux after a few years. Be interesting to know why.

I’m still surprised (not surprised) that the media has totally ignored China’s move to replace M$ on all government computers and servers with KylinOS by 2026. Meanwhile, manufacturers will be urged to front load openKylinOS on domestic computers. Instead of reinventing the wheel, seems like the EU should be talking to the Chinese for some tips on do’s and don’ts.

It’s right there, “ICE strikes out at Dodger Stadium.”

Elon gets his dream of going to Mars. I’d put him in a cybertruck and chuck him in the general direction.

Tell everyone at work your salary. Keeping pay scales secret is taking part in the capitalist game.

Libya agreed to give up it’s nuclear ambitions and look what Obama did to them. DPRK, despite seven decades of effort by the US to destroy it, is still standing. What lesson is a world leader in the US’s crosshairs supposed to garner from these examples?