The Australian system is problematic because of apathy, the American system is problematic because of straight malice. And in Australia the supreme court recently ruled that indefinite detention without the prospect of release is illegal, in America the supreme court ruled Trump can sell immigrants into slavery.
Australia is nowhere near as bad as the US. I don’t even know where to start correcting you.
OpenSUSE because rolling release and no IBM. Never used it though.
Currently I use Mint. It works but it’s not the best.
I’d be kinda shocked if in, in 2025, any download of a DE opened X org up to remote connections by default. But I will double check.
Thanks, that’s a very clear response. I guess I basically can use it until X11 stops getting security updates. I wonder whether an X11 vulnerability can trigger a serious vulnerability even if it doesn’t get security updates.
No idea what that -nolisten stuff is about. Is that to do with the firewall?
I started writing out a question, but I realized I need a better understanding of what an insecure desktop environment even means first.
The question I want to ask here is, what does “secure” and “insecure” mean in the context of a DE. What distinguishes a secure and insecure DE from a practical perspective (physical access, privilege escalation, rootkits, etc.).
Looking at the FAQ, they do “maintain” their version of TQt3. Whether they maintain it to the extent that it’s secure is anyone’s guess. There’s always the question of what kinds of exploits can even exist in a desktop environment (which I should add to my original post).
It’s good that it looks to be still maintained, but I imagine their resources are limited with so little market share and it doesn’t look like they have the resources to switch to Wayland (which I assume is more secure).
I’m not sure my noob questions are worthy of asking the devs directly.
The American example is so true.
I didn’t even consider the possibility that people would consider Republicans to be literally the result of a Chinese plot (although there was open Russian intervention on Trump’s side). But I suppose it is entirely possible people would read things this and come to that conclusion.
Yes
Charging people to be unbanned would not be a smart move.
They’re just incompetent, there’s no conspiracy.
100%.
We are over-saturated in art, particularly corporate-backed art. My backlog just keeps growing.
Legal piracy would change the incentive structures around art in a good way.
Disney wouldn’t like it.
I’m trying to think of countries America is most likely to end up like, but America’s military power complicates basically any comparison. But I’m thinking there are so many parallels to Nazi germany. A core difference is the access to information we have. First and foremost historical precedent, but also social media (even though it’s also part of the reason we’re in this mess).
If Trump can’t achieve a critical mass of compliance, a military coup is the most likely salvation. Specifically Trump calling the military on mass peaceful protests and in response the military saying “we’d rather coup the president”. Violent resistance would close this avenue off, as it would galvanise the military behind the president.
There’s also the question of whether ICE will be sufficiently militarized by the time this happens, and whether it would even occur to Trump to call in ICE to suppress protests. Nobody but the worst of the worst will join ICE, if their personnel and equipment can overwhelm even the local police (ACAB, but like, not ACAMAGA) then it would take gross incompetence for Trump to lose power.
That is domestically. The question now stands:
Keep in mind I am not an expert. Also this is all putting aside Trump’s narcissism. Trump wants to be seen as a good person and a genius and I’m not sure he’d go as far as to massacre crowds of protesters specifically. If nothing else such violence would look like a failure on his part. Whoever succeeds Trump, a Republican obviously, would need to be Stephen Miller levels of bad.
That’s why Trump’s building his own private military in ICE.
There are other meats?
That’s what you can do if you’re not publicly traded. The supposedly “wise” market whenever anything goes wrong always seems to insist on burning down decades of good-will to extract a few bucks.
There’s also the gambling, and the 30% cut that allows them to make $3.5 million per head.
Steam is pushing the industry forward on Linux support though, so they have my support.
It’s my plan. Not in the mood to distro-hop on my laptop right now, and I got to get through my Epic Games backlog (and also the Steam demos I can’t be bothered downloading again) before I swap over my Windows 10 desktop.