the_abecedarian

Don't brexit yourselves

Organic Maps is a good app that also lets you do some editing. I like the interface better than osmand

I haven't been a mint user for a while, but the fact that the mint folks specifically release MATE/XFCE versions is a good sign that they are tested for compatibility. You can try those versions on liveusb, too.

I'm guessing here, but the "less terminal needed" parts of Mint are probably specific tools and GUI settings managers they have put together to be more user friendly. if you search something like [name of Mint settings manager or tool] XFCE compatible, you'll likely get an explanation. You might want to check out their Matrix chat room with specific questions: https://app.element.io/#/room/#linuxmint-space:matrix.org

Mint comes with a few desktop environment/window manager options: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE. It's also capable of running KDE and basically any other option, you just have to install it in a slightly more manual way.

I think mine was gentoo, waaaay back in the day. It didn't go great lol.

I'm loving opensuse rn though!

Thanks for this list! There are some fun suggestions here that'll help me get into peertube, but Russel Brand is a conspiracy theorist and far-right pundit, recently charged with rape & sexual assault. Suggesting you delete him from this list.

Pandoc can convert many kinds of files to docx, pdf, and lots of other things. Use the text editor of your choice!

The quotes are not there for their accuracy, but to illustrate Musk's outlook and intentions. He sees all entitlements as a bad thing per se and will break whatever norms and rules he can get away with to get rid of them, citing great replacement lies as a justification to the far right and citing "efficiency" as a sop to the less-far-right. Whether he can get away with it remains to be seen, but my original comment was an off-the-cuff "Musk is trying to destroy social security", not a detailed argument about what has happened so far. I think, given the experience of so many other government agencies with Musk and DOGE, that this is a fair statement for casual posting.

Process counts as much as benefits. Difficulty making payments is a form of sabotage. Even delaying payments counts as a cut because some ppl will die before having received a payment they would have.

Why else would Musk be messing with SSA? "Efficiency" ? Why not take him at his word? A couple choice quotes from that article:

• “Most of the federal spending is entitlements,” Musk told the Fox Business Network. “That’s the big one to eliminate.”
• "Musk said Monday that federal entitlements are “a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters.”

It's just an excuse. They want to get rid of him because they don't like his politics and he's an activist. Whether the state categorizes you as a citizen, resident, tourist, undocumented, etc. should have nothing to do with your right to speak out.

but please don't

Ofc Musk is trying to destroy social security as we speak