Puppy has saved my ass multiple times. Love that tiny dog.

Speaking of Tails, a security minded user can also try out Qubes as well. It uses virtualization to separate different contexts like Work, Personal, Social, etc. You can have your Work profile connect to your workplace VPN while your Personal profile is on a torified connection in parallel. It does have its drawbacks, however. You need more system resources, and anything that requires direct access to GPU like videogames is not officially supported.

So we’ll have to say GNU/Linux/SystemD soon?

My bad. Sorry.

3rd party modifications to windows iso that basically amounts to trusting an internet stranger.

No problems running on the AMD graphics?

Let’s wait until 2050s.

It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.

I’ve made the switch over a decade ago. Ubuntu was the gateway drug. I have to use windows at work, but that’s it.

I’m guessing there’s a reduced pool of desktop pc users, thus Linux users are now slightly bigger in proportion? There has been big advances regarding Linux adoption, too.

Social pressure is a real thing. I wonder just how many people in the US have iphones because of that dumb blue-green bubble stuff.

Similar here. I have switched to xfce after struggling with gnome and kde.

Got in just after Dapper, those days fooling around with compiz were the best. Went distrohopping when Unity happened.

Linkedin is a cesspool and nothing but a dumpster fire. I wish I wasn’t pressured to joining it for job searches.

Let’s not mix NFTs into this.

I used Opera when it used Presto instead of becoming a yet another chromium. I miss that one.

So it’s somewhere between Open-Closed:

• open signup (no invite required), instant availability
• open signup (no invite required), manual approval required
• closed signup (invite required)

Stay strong, man. I really hope it doesn’t come to the worst.

Why is everything a video or a chatroom instead of a properly documented webpage, I will never understand.

Domain hacking is fun, but politics isn’t fun. Bit.ly got taken over by the Libyan government agency, FMHY.ml also had to start over after Malian government stopped Freenom from giving out free domains.

Not China, but you know the rest… like that Laotian character from King of the Hills who gets asked “So you’re from China or Japan?” everytime.