It’s about priorities, not cost. And to an extent I suspect it’s about culture, too.

I’m not talking about how to connect distant towns to each other, that’s done with power lines. But in one-family home suburbia it’s easy to provide underground power as a utility. You’ve already got your plumbing underground, just add a pipe for wires.

Why don’t you guys, you know, bury the power lines?

Hanging electric wires from wooden poles is wild to me. They do that in some rural parts of Europe.

Likely lots of people who had contact with Epstein did nothing wrong, at least not on that level.

He was collecting powerful people, in science, business, government, anything. One way to do that is to offer access to other important people. The ability to say to someone “I can connect you with Stephen Hawking” is currency.

The pedophilia ring and sex trafficking is the exact same thing – just a way to appeal to certain people.

I think it’s more interesting to talk about who the fuck gave Epstein a private island in one of the most stupidly expensive spits of sand on the entire planet. Likely the same people who killed him.

I mean I think the bigger issue here is that he sent a Tesla to space when he could have become the Jesus of our times, and saved hundreds of millions of people from abject poverty and despair.

No kompromat needed for Elon, he just reads the general vibe of the powerful and then parrots it in an edgy package for personal financial gain.

To all the billionaires out there: people will never respect you until you have 2 kg of dick. Go show them who’s boss!

To all the kids out there: accept who you are. Love yourself. Be genuine.

Those fucking clowns all thought they were privy to legitimate “intel” dossiers. They don’t care about news or critical thinking, they’re gonna need their commands in short-form reel-loop format just like their grifter führer.

Luigi didn’t eat no billionaire.

Luigi has been falsely accused of whacking some goofy millionaire, a mere servant of billionaires. And no eating involved, even in the false accusation!

But more importantly he couldn’t have touched that millionaire, because that day me and my boy Luigi Nicholas Mangione were playing Contra and he carried hard. That guy from the insurance company probably just got into some sort of accident.

I hear a lot about IWW. All hype?

There’s a reason why Debian is so popular as a base for other distros. It’s just no-nonsense, does what it’s supposed to do, never expects praise just for doing its damn job.

It’s not the democrats actively doing this. But they are a controlled opposition that has actively sabotaged a true alternative, to the detriment of all Americans and indeed all of the people of this planet.

No you’re probably right, I’ve had my Ubuntu-based distro act up after upgrades, and I actually find it more random now than what it used to be like in the 2010s. My feeling is that Debian/Arch are better in this regard, and most newbies don’t actually need bleeding-edge patches.

Thank you

I have a recommendation for your recommendations. There’s KDE Neon which is distributed by the KDE project, which is Ubuntu-based. That’s what I personally run, now that I really don’t have the time/energy to tinker.

For future reference, you are allowed to say this.

I find the best way to get help is to find a good source of documentation, rather than asking questions directly. ArchWiki is great, UbuntuWiki is not bad. There are lots of blogs out there with people writing guides for how to solve issues that they’ve had, and they’re usually really good (but this relies on search engines finding these results).

Yeah, let everyone do their own thing - there’s nothing wrong with starting with Slackware if you want to. But if we’re going to recommend a starting point to people, maybe go with something that is designed to work out of the box. There’s going to be so much else to get adjusted to that extra options aren’t necessary.

Oh, and by the way, most people don’t like tinkering. They want their car to take them from A to B and their computer to do the thing, it’s not a hobby for them and we shouldn’t expect new users to be looking for a new hobby.

I hate to admit this but I’m terrified to go beyond complaining. I don’t want to have to fight these fucking ghouls. But I guess the pool of options is evaporating.

Holy shit, even overriding a presidential veto for that shit. Imagine if Congress had balls like that today.

Imagine calling someone on the phone, going hello! then putting them on hold…

My sister actually does this. I feel like it should be some sort of prank or social experiment, but I fear it’s not.