So this guy was sacked, right?
Just like the MSNBC dude who expressed schadenfraude OFF THE AIR over Kirk’s murder, right?

Enjoy your Dad while he’s around. When you’re old and he’s not there anymore, you’ll miss this shit.

What’s the urge? Are the billionaires eager to fly over the plebs? Perhaps to avoid their limos being hit at street level?

Well, Whatsapp and Facebook are their own honeypots. There’s heaps to say about why nobody should use them for any reasons.

But in this case, the man was found out because his accomplice had compromising messages on his cellphone. Be they Whatsapp message, SMS messages, emails… doesn’t matter here. It’s not a story of how communication channels operated by Big Data are not really secure and only designed to lure you in for your data, but a story of how one person’s carelessness did another person in.

That man just found out that your secure communication channel is as secure as the weakest node.

That’s also why, if you want to deGoogle your life, you’ve already lost if any of the people you email has a Gmail account: however careful you are not to provide Google any data yourself, the data is leaked to Google by the other party.

Power is the most intoxicating drug.

Ketamine doesn’t cut it anymore.

No lawyers who value their lives and don’t want to end up on a MAGA hit list will touch that one with a ten-foot pole.

Okay. Not doxxed perhaps. But put on a list that’s implicitely a hit list.

It’s not great.

For those who have the money to hire an attorney, yes.

Don’t people know they shouldn’t divulge their identifies on the internet? Or is it a rule only those of us of older generations who still have a concept of privacy and self-preservation apply?

I went with Ubuntu cause name recognition, and I’ve tried it in the past lol. Basically half assed the entire thing.

No you didn’t. If you’re new to this, you did your best and went with the most well-know thing you don’t know much about yet.

Ubuntu is fine. And I’m sure you’ve already put a few hours into configuring it at this point, so don’t waste the partition. I’m just pointing out - and possibly for others reading this thread - that if you’re used to Windows and you like the Windows UI paradigm, Cinnamon (the desktop environment in Mint) might be for you.

You can probably install Cinnamon as a secondary desktop environment in Ubuntu too, in fact, if you want to give it a go. If you install another desktop environment / window manager in Linux, don’t worry, you don’t lose anything: you’re simply presented with an option to choose the one you want in the greeter (login screen).

There ya go:

Oh sorry, my bad: you said AI…

I don’t think the folks who got doxxed by those maniacs are laughing…

There never was an American dream. There is - or rather, was - an American fantasy entertained by immigrants, that turns into a rather bland, if not unpleasant reality check when they arrive in the US and don’t strike it rich, which is the overwhelming majority of them.

Even the Pilgrims sailed to the New World with that fantasy in their minds, and then were confronted with the pretty awful realities of their miserable voyage and even more miserable life in the Plymouth colony. This is nothing new.

Good on you my friend.

I know it’s not easy, but make the effort and you’ll be rewarded in the end.

Incidentally, if you miss the Windows UI, Linux Mint probably was a better choice for you: it’s basically Ubuntu with a Windows-like desktop.

The classic Windows desktop experience is one of the rare things Microsoft got right imho.

What an abhorrent country…

There’s a difference: Rome took a thousand years to fall. America has gone back from going to the moon to medicine by leeches in half a century.

This is fantastic news for Linux.

Trump doesn’t give a shit: as always, he moved fast, the judiciary moved slowly, and now he done did it and it’s too late to do anything about it. That’s the keystone of the Project 2025 strategy and it works.

And now, watch Trump declare that this judge, like all the others ruling against him, is a leftist lunatic or whatever.

Lather, rinse, repeat, until the orange utan firmly establishes his dictatorship. You know it’s happening, I know it’s happening, everybody can see it happening, and nobody stops it happening.

You’re not wrong. But I have another argument: the Trump regime is not yet fully entrenched, and now is the time to vote with your wallet and boycott the collaborators that bankroll the regime in an effort to smother it before it’s too late. There’s still a tiny chance and every little bit helps.

China on the other hand… It’s been around for so damn long, no matter how much you try to boycott China-made product - if that’s even possible - it not going to make a dent in the regime’s grip.

One does what one can where one can.