there are almost no frontends left working. i had to chase them to see what worked. LibRedirect has no way to flag when some don’t, thus removing those?

me, too, but it only allows 2GB. If you plan to encrypt it for when you aren’t needing it, then you can only use half that as encryption doubles files. I’ve been wondering if Owncloud, NC’s close cousin, has a free account, too. I could use Owncloud for images, I guess.

not all wars are bad. wars meant to defend one’s own people, assets, and territory is noble. But, I am not sure exactly what you are getting at. Hopefully, you weren’t being prejudiced against Germans.

i’m a bit surprised that China hasn’t released one to sell to Americans.

? Even the USA often ignores their Constitution.

they make us fight and fight and fight until we are haggard and have no more fight in us. i hate them. Having others trying to control the group is natural. Accepting it without fighting back seems unnatural. Even wolf packs have been known to eliminate a mean-spirited leader.

One of my old dentists told that that I could not have my own paid-for x-rays and my do’s vet told me the same. So, I had to repay to get new ones and expose the body to my radiation. I avoid “experts” now. The feeling of being ripped off and disrespected makes me feel the need for another expert - A SHRINK!

People naturally discriminate. That is 100% normal mammalian behaviour and no amount of legislation can destroy human behavior. Murder and rape have been illegal for a long time and haven’t disappeared. “Marginalised communites” must mean nonEuropeans, nonwhites. The Roma segregate themselves as do most refugees. As for “holdiing centres”, I’ve been hearing of refugees staying in very nice hotels that I could not afford if if was to go to Europe. Who is supposed to pay for all of this?

so you have the ultra-cheap Mullvad service and it is fast enough for you? This is the same one where I can send in cash to Mullvad to pay - umm, the super-anonymous Mullvad VPN?

On a high quality flash drive, it will be decent. or, you can do the cheaper, more convenient way by installing Oracle’s free VirtualBox program and testing a bunch of distros. Be sure to try out as much of the software that a distro comes with as you can even if you dislike the distro itself. And, makes notes of the themes you like. I’d think an external drive might be a convenient option that can be used at work, at home, while visting your family in Kentucky…But, VMs are the cheapest and there is even software to clone a VM into an iso after you’ve customized it how you want it, then load the .iso onto a driveshaft to permanently install on “bare metal”.

Debian with KDE desktop. I prefer lighter DEs or WMs, but Debian is soooo stable and KDE looks so professional and makes it extremely easy to download packages - much easier than, say, Debian with XFCE which is what I use. When I set up linux on 2 old unused PCs for 2 coworkers after their computers died, I installed Debian with KDE and boss and coworkers were happy. Debian is the base of most distros, so sticking with Debian means more packages available usually and better tutorials and more stability. Even some foreign governments now use Debian as a base for their custom distros - China, too. I never had trouble getting Debian installed or running.

dpkg -l

new lies are being told about Celts, too - that Celts were not an ethnic group at all, but a group of mixed people sharing a culture - same as is being said about Vikings. Celts lived in quite a few places - if that history is at all true and i think southern Germany was one area.

I keep seeing videos of Youtubers quitting Arch. I love Debian and will probably mostly stay with it, but after using a few distros in a VM or flashdrive without systemd, I wish there was a really stable no-systemd distro.

must be all over the map. Long ago, in Atlanta, I heard the hourly wage in one county was fairly high, so was shocked by how low it was where I am now.

help people install Linux and set it up - show them how to use it. I’ve considered doing the same. I’d do the first ten installs and lessons for free just to get experience and referrals. I suppose you could buy good laptops cheaply online, load them up, make videos on YT, removedute, Odysee, etc. on how the system YOU set up works. Most of that has very little upfront costs. Are you being replaced by overseas tech support and/or cheap local imported labor?

I must wonder if Trump saying that America needs biometrics for illegals is part of this. Using illegals is just an excuse to introduce the Brave New World’s tools.

Thiel is not far-right. These days, the labels Right or Left don’t always make sense, because there is kinda of a uniparty who pulls our strings on certain issues, gets us all worked up, but they just want control for the sake of control - no ideology or cause needs to be believed in for them - though they will fake it to get people to comply.

NaZi stood for Na National Socialist. NaZis did a wonderful job in Germany and should have stayed in Germanic territory - Nederlands, Austria, and other Germanic lands. Loving ones own people is wonderful as long as it doesn’t lead to invading others’ lands. Ireland should be for the Irish only. Kurds and Basque also deserve self-rule. It is a general concept and if that makes me racist, I should wear the label with pride. My room is clean and organized because it is mine, within my sphere of ownership/control. My roommate’s room looks like a hurricane hit it and it stinks bad in there (I wish he’d keep his door shut). I don’t complain because that is his space. If the house gets bugs, that will affect me, but until then, I shut the hell up and worry about my own space. I consider this very much like nationalism. I take responsibility and pride into my own realm. How racist of me! Oh, and he’s a Jew.

are you saying that Jews are a race? I keep seeing articles saying that race is a failed concept, that there is no white race, so certainly there cannot be a black race, a yellow one, or a Jewish one. Gotta be consistent. I lived in New Work City (Manhattan mostly) for almost 10 years and felt the full brunt of Jewish racism. I have watched the rabbis’ sermons against nonJews. It’s not that two wrongs make a right - because they rarely do. But, Jews’ pushiness is rude, condescending, and yeah, I resent it. It’s like living with a loud-mouthed mother-in-law who moves into your house and then tells you how things should be run.