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Rentlar

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  • Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore?

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  • Idk, it sounds better to just pay out of pocket to visit the doctor regularly, save the health insurance money in a separate account. Then if you need surgery, book a vacation to Spain. If you get cancer, a debilitating disease or an emergency hospital visit, just move to Spain with the funds you saved up, and never look back.

    A universal healthcare option would be a far better alternative, of course.

  • House Republicans exploring ways to prevent Mamdani from being sworn in as NYC mayor if he wins on Election Day

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  • To do that (assuming rules mean anything to Republicans) they will have to swear Grijalva in as Congresswoman, and the Epstein files would be set for release so who knows if they will.

  • Trump Baffled That Dems Aren’t Caving to His Demands

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  • They've never done a thing like this.

    Ikr! Like grow a bit more than half a spine!

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Many files copied to an external disk are cached, and not written immediately unless you run the "sync" command.

    So when you press the "eject" icon, on most frontends a notification will tell you not to unplug it right away, once the write is complete it will send a "it is safe to remove the drive" message. This can take a couple minutes if you are writing a big file to a slow drive.

  • Trump Announces More Surprise White House Renovations — Removing ‘Totally Inappropriate’ Tile in Lincoln Bathroom

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  • If the next The Hunger Games prequel needs more filming locations for Panem, this gaudy-ass bathroom would fit right in.

  • Shutdown pain spikes this weekend, upping pressure on Congress to strike deal

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  • See Vance's comments here

    Vice President Vance urged Senate Republicans at a lunch meeting Tuesday to keep the pressure on Senate Democrats by not allowing votes on legislation to pay SNAP benefits or air traffic controllers during the shutdown, according to Republican senators who attended the meeting.

    Vance urged GOP senators to stick with Thune’s strategy of holding repeated votes on a House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 21.

    His argument, according to GOP sources familiar with the discussion, is that passing “rifle-shot” measures to reopen the parts of the government would take the pressure off Democrats and possibly extend the shutdown.

    Passing such bills in the Senate would also put pressure on the Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to reconvene the House to take up the legislation, further undermining the broader strategy of isolating Senate Democrats during the shutdown.

    Make Americans starve so that we can own the libs. Shortchange the air traffic controllers deliberately so that we can pretend it's Democrats' fault. Don't let any compromise measure pass, because then Johnson will have to let the new Congressperson in and release the Epstein files.

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    'We deeply regret these errors': Trump admin admits to 'factual discrepancy' that played pivotal role in appellate ruling of National Guard case

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  • Firings at the DOJ in 3... 2... 1...

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Sounds like a Personal Computer of Theseus. Nobara is great, it's a one person project dedicated towards making gaming and streaming easy.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Hey the Steam deck counts. That's one more Linux device for prospective game developers to target.

    CAD is still one area needing development, for sure.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Haven't tested these myself, but after a brief search, timekpr and little-brother are packages I found you could try, related to session time management.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Glad to hear from someone on the receiving side of recommendations to switch, and that it is going well for you.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Impressive that you were able to pull off the migration for a corporate usecase.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Thanks for this writeup. CAD is one of the several professional workflows that I really wish could work better on Linux, but it is hard to compete against software that costs thousands per year per license.

    Although, is antivirus a thing on Linux?

    So generally Linux has relied on having open and auditable code to avoid exploitation of bugs and ones found can be easily discovered, reported and mitigated. The variety of configurations makes it much less appealing for hackers as an attack surface. So for the average user the biggest danger to breaking your device is yourself (but very occasionally the package manager messes something up too). ClamAV is one antivirus application Linux has...

    But depending on what threats you want to mitigate here is what else you can look into:

    • Protection against random unwanted internet connections to your computer: UFW (firewall)
    • Protection against anyone besides you remotely SSH-ing to your machine (SSH is often disabled by default): fail2ban, strongly encrypted keys
    • Protection against physical access of your disk, and data and OS: LUKS (disk encryption)
    • Protection against other computer users (or yourself by accident) messing with important parts of the system: SELinux (trusted environment). Most users don't need this for their personal PC.
    • Protection against code you got off github from nuking your computer: flatpak (containerized app), docker (containerized environment), firejail (sandbox environment).

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • I think GNOME 3 was intended to be nicer for touchscreens but it's not my favourite either.

    My daily driver is MATE - the spiritual continuation of GNOME 2.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Thanks. I figured Microsoft trying to force people off Windows 10 might be a bigger reason than ever to get people to switch than philosophical ones. I wanted to see if that was true for people on Lemmy or if there were other reasons, hence I made this post.

    I think the hardest to get on Linux is those in the middle with a very specific piece of hardware or software that needs to work in a certain way. Kind of like the bell curve meme, total computer beginners and total computer experts can embrace linux the easiest.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • For like a good chunk of people, all you need from a computer the news, online videos, one social media, email, banking, simple writing and printing. Linux does fine and some distros actually do better than Windows at the basics.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • With the power of Free and Open Source, I grant thee eternal computing liberation!

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • Glad it has worked out. Over the years I've been free tech support for my close friends and family whom I've installed Linux for (I'm fine with it because it had been my hobby, passion, and suggestion for them). I hope you've not been inundated with support requests.

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • I think it says something about Linux adoption rate amongst gaming users, that popular modding tools like r2modman have native Linux versions. And it's great for me to hear "It just works" from new users since my bar is set at a weird spot, having seen things progress over 9 years.