I feel like I get it now. Of course it’s bad that the us does this. It seemed so obvious I didn’t think that would be the point

Honestly this comment is just so confusing and baffling I’m just dumbfounded. What on earth do you mean? The relationship between China and taiwan is nothing like the relationship between the US and Venezuela

Edit: even if it was…why would it just be presumed to be cool that China close the airspace around Taiwan? Wtf

I know the ban was before the event, you get what I meant.

Maybe they were petty criminals… Seems like they got organized now haha

This is fucking stupid. A 13 year old is old enough to read the “don’t fucking eat this you dumbass” labels on the packaging. Do you know how useful neodymium magnets are? You’re gonna just ban them cuz this kid’s dumb enough to swallow a hundred fucking rare earth magnets and didn’t go to the doctor for half a week? Stupid

Reddit is just completely impossible to use these days. Even just trying to find answers to stuff in there you just get “you’ve been blocked by network security” 90% of the time. Shit’s dead to me.

I’m talking about like your mom if she started using Linux, and just needs it to be able to open a web browser and check Facebook or her email or something.

Nothing. Just set up Elementary or Mint or something with a shortcut to Firefox and there’s nothing else to do. Any apps they might need would come from an app store, so point that out.

A student that just needs a laptop to do homework and take notes

So how to open a text editor? Recommending an easy-to-use and standard one like Kate would be good, but a polished distro will have one preinstalled.

someone that just wants to play games on Steam and chat on discord.

They need concepts like filesystems (e.g. the concept of a root directory, mounting, and device files), software repositories (since steam comes from a non-default repo in many distros), an awareness of the whole graphics driver situation, and hardware both appropriate to their needs and to running Linux.

Insofar as “left” and “right” are really a thing they’re just about whether or not you support monarchy or authoritarianism (right-wing) or democracy (left-wing). What you’ve said are cultural things that don’t really map to that very well.

It’s also that any 3rd party apps violate the TOS and if they discover that you’re using it they’ll boot you from the service

That was indeed what I meant

Wait…signal has a linux-native standalone app that doesn’t depend on android or iPhone? Since when??

Edit: looks like no

And Signal gets on board

…is this ai spam? What’s going on

Don’t forget that while the IDF was distracted with the flotilla, Palestinians were able to fish.

Really?? That’s surprising.

Yes, I saw a recommendation for them earlier, but their plans are very high-storage, which I don’t need.

I don’t mind if it’s called a different thing I just don’t know what a good place to rent one is.

You do have a point… But how do we know they’re not using that to hide shit? I mean, of course they would…

Yeah, we said “unredacted”!

Public services don’t “lose” money, they “cost” money. Y’all ain’t paying cuz you don’t wanna pay, not cuz it’s “unsustainable” to fund basic-ass shit.