Re: Idiotic tariff nonsense
As an American, I agree entirely.
The recipe for Starbucks is to burn the beans in napalm, and then sell the water used to cool the ashes.
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FWIW, I set my octogenarian mom up with Pop!_OS and (for remote support) Tailscale. It replaced her dead Windows 7. I also did a little tomfoolery to get Windows' FreeCell working on it.
The only tech support she's needed in the past 4(?) years is when her USB Wifi adapter was having problems.
I mention this in case you find, for whatever reason, that Windows 10 is no longer an option.
> What's even crazier is that to a one, all those "coastal" states affected by severe hurricanes in the US vote republican.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but that seems factuality wrong.
Hurricanes can hit the entire east coast (and Gulf coast) of the US. I'm the 2024 presidential election, about half of those votes against Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election
I suspect that on balance, Vance is less bad than Trump.
My impression is that Vance's main weakness is that he lacks character and will change his stated views based on what seems expedient.
But unfortunately we're in a situation where that's less bad (IMHO) than the sitting president.
I don't know if this is true for all unixes, but IIRC "rm" just removes a directory's reference to a file.
The underlying file continues to exist until (at least) there are no processes that have it open, and there are no other directories / files that have hard links to it's inode.
Or something like that.
"Windows 10 is 9 years old, not new but not really ancient, it could easily be extended for a few years until..."
I'd argue that Windows 10 could be extended indefinitely.
For what most people want from an OS, Windows 10 needs nothing more than security updates and hardware drivers.
I don't think that's fair.
Any child who's familiar with the basics of category theory, lambda calculus, Peano notation, and algebraic hypo-static transductive applicators of Curried semi-ring monads can learn himself a Haskell in mere decades!
Although to be fair, it's helpful if they were exposed to compilers a bit during kindergarten.