I’ve used Little Snitch on macOS, but I agree that a closed-source blob won’t fly on Linux. OpenSnitch exists, though I haven’t tried that one.

Can I just do an apt remove —purge systemd-ageverificationd and call it a day, or do I need to edit /etc/systemd/ageverificationd/birthday.conf and call it a day?

I don’t agree with this law, but having an age verification API as an open-source modular component is the best way to do it. Build in privacy controls and permissions so you know what’s being sent, where, and when. Make sure we know to edit $HOME/.config/systemd/ageverificationd/birthday.conf whenever we want (yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if systemd handled this, too).

Don’t forget the off switch and don’t give it unnecessary dependencies. Let me be able to install it if I need it (spoilers: I won’t) and if you include it by default, let me be able to remove it without removing the whole GUI.

What’s a good place to start with Lenin’s works? Do I need to read Marx first to get a full grasp of it?

If protesting accomplished anything, they’d make it illegal. It’s still inspiring to see, though.

I wound up switching to Debian. It’s stable. It works. It lets me tinker and upgrade some packages without compromising the whole system.

My only gripe is that OS upgrades are a manual process. I miss Ubuntu’s do-release-upgrade command, though following a process isn’t hard.

A Spanish king sent a Genovese-born Spanish citizen westward? Roll with it. Conservatives in this country will fly into a rage thinking non-whites had any part in discovering their so-called holy land.

Columbus didn’t even “discover” (I use the term loosely) what’s now the United States of America. He found the Bahamas and Hispañiola, though he was convinced it was South Asia. The Spanish Crown named him Governor of whatever land he found, but he was stripped of the title after admitting to flogging and executing natives without trial.

“They [the Taino] were very well built, with very handsome bodies and very good faces,” Columbus wrote in his diary. “They do not carry arms or know them… They should be good servants.”

Despite being arrested, Ferdinand and Isabella did let him keep 10% of the gold he found, the Crown taking the remainder.

The style at the time was to transliterate names. In Spain, he was known as Cristobál Colón. I’ll mark the date as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The shitstains in this country can have their Colon Day.

Agreed. I use Secure Boot on my Linux systems with my own keys. Let’s not confuse it with Restricted Boot, which is awful.

Well, dang, I just got a crown installed today. Oh well, maybe next time.

You mean “happy holidays.” Don’t deny me my Festivus!

Nah, he Base4017’d it. That’s Base64 plus all the emojis. It’s actually quite efficient.

Good question. It seems like Debian has been speeding up a bit. The software is still a bit older, but it’s not too far behind compared to some other Debian releases. I switched and it’s been rock solid, despite me running a Trixie Backports system.

Agreed! Though give me the backports any day.

This guy’s right on the money. That’s about as far as I got with my T470. Be sure to stress test it with some hot, CPU-heavy action to make sure it doesn’t freeze. I was able to get mine down to about -120 mV, but raising that a little bit made it more stable.

That’s definitely a possibility, depending on the year and make. Now you’ve given me something to think about.

“You slurred the word ‘golden.’ Roll a d4. You need 20 to live.”

Or, a bag of holding embedded in a doll’s butt. Try being taken seriously when you’re fisting a plushie for a magic potion.

Sorry, had to.

I bought a used Chevy Bolt, then disconnected the antenna to put a dummy load on the OnStar transmitter. Never told it my Wi-Fi password. It can’t connect to the Internet unless I park it next to a cell tower, unless I pay for OnStar, which I refuse to do. I only use CarPlay so it can’t even hope to use my phone’s Bluetooth tethering (not that it seems capable).

Fortunately, Chevy’s only OTA infotainment update was to remove the video player, so I’m not missing much. Unplug the power cord and drive.

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