The short rant:

1. You don’t need to ask which distro, ask which mint version
2. The answer to #1 is MATE or xfce.

The longer rant:

I’ve been using xubuntu a bit, for guest OS in desktop VM, but I don’t really know if I like it enough to recommend it. It’s less rough than Arch, but so is 24 grit sandpaper.

Like others have said, there are many contenders for your use case, but mint stands out. I’m probably gonna go with mint once windows 10 stops getting updates. Mint or parrot. But TBH I don’t want to daily drive parrot either.

Which version of mint then? That’s really the question to ask. And if you ask me then I don’t care for all the bells and whistles, I don’t need animations or semi transparent windows. And when Ubuntu went with unity back in the day I walked. So I guess I want my GUI to stay the same. So I’d go with MATE or xfce.

Well he is in the “make more money with no regards to anything that’s not making money” business.

How long you think before MS starts handing recall data over to the NSA? Is the integer describing the number of days negative?

TIL ADHD is like when I don’t properly test my task switching conditions in an RTOS and end up stuck polling a sensor continuously.

Tbf they only complain about the removing your pants part. Keep your pants up, and you can take a shit there before they complain about the smell.

Just to be completely clear then (and I’m sorry for yelling):

WE DON’T WANT VOICE CONTROL IN OUR CARS. AND IF YOU ADD AI WE’LL BURN YOU TO THE FUCKING GROUND.

Constrictive criticism

Freudian slip? But hey if that’s what you’re into then good for you 😉

Otherwise? Yeah, come on, don’t settle for shit sex, if you can teach your partner to be better then why not? Don’t be too afraid to say something.

Too soon to call them nazis? No, go ahead. I’d prefer if we didn’t dilute the term, so if fascist is more accurate, then maybe use that instead. But if someone’s a nazi, call them out, document it, make their employers know who they have on their payroll.

Too soon to joke about? Yes, definitely. Joking about the current situation dulls people’s perception of what’s happening. You need Americans to have their eyes wide open for what’s coming.

I took OP’s comment as being made in jest, thus my “too soon” comment.

First off that’s not really cheese.

Secondly, FFS, I completely forgot about that. I even interviewed at the plant that makes that once. But to my country men’s credit, I’ve only ever seen it served a handful of times, and it is always left on the table, virtually untouched.

Thirdly, how the actual fuck did you ever learn about ananas Castello?

Yeah, first I get my boss to fork out 200euro for a workstation pro, so I can start doing esxi with my students. Before we can get esxi up and running broadcom locks esxi behind a non-transparent subscription with rumored insane monthly payments. Leaving me with an overpriced desktop hypervisor, which is now free.

Only free BTW because broadcom wants to lock as many as possible in, before pulling their pants down and ramming a subscription up their behinds.

Too soon

Anyone else here who had to do a double take, twice, at the headline, wondering why Trump would need a chief of police?

What kinda bullshit is that? I’ve lived in the country my entire life, and I’ve never heard of that. Are you sure that you’re not thinking about that Norwegian brunost?

I’ve just googled various kombinations of cheese with added sugar in Danish and I can’t find any references to this.

Sorry, best I can do is chubby cougars.

everything you’re wearing right now

Much of that is cotton. I believe that in the “good” ol’ days the US grew that themselves. Start that industry up again, and you don’t need mass deportations across the border.

Danes will put apple in curry as well.

Whatever dude. My chili, my choice.

It might violate rules, but so does murder

But murdering people won’t get your edits reverted. If you take out some of the over zealous wikipedia police your page is guaranteed.

Why would you take down a website for a c++ compression library?

I get it, I do. Far removed consequences, in either time or distance, are hard to get motivated by, especially if you have issues closer to yourself. All the things you list are not exactly stuff Trump’s going to provide. I mean he wanted to get rid of the ACA in his first term.

Problem is that being a superpower requires maintenance. It would seem that Trump doesn’t want to maintain that status https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-2024-reelection-pull-out-of-nato-membership/676120/

I don’t want Europe’s security policies to be dependent on the US. What my country’s governments have been doing since the 80s is nothing short of irresponsible. FFS in the Danish navy the largest vessels are our two frigates, crewed by 100 personnel each. One isn’t seaworthy and the other can’t fire its main gun, because we only have one targeting system, and it’s on the other ship. Luckily it seems that my government has been awakened. And it would seem that a lot of other countries have been too.

But in the end, if Russia can get a seize fire in Ukraine, if Trump can get the Ukrainians to stop defending themselves. Then Putin will be able to regroup, and be able to rebuild his armed forces to be able to attack NATO countries, while Trump’s still president. And if NATO falls, because the US doesn’t get involved, then what’s stopping China from sinking some American boats to secure the South China Sea? While Iran goes full force on Isreal and North Korea invades the south?

I’m not saying that it’s a given, but this scenario is far more likely with Trump at the wheel than almost anyone else.

So while world peace isn’t the sole responsibility of the US, it kind of depends on the US at the moment.

Ok, so I’ll be straight with you. I want to respond to your whole comment, but I need to stop engaging in these discussions. So know that I read all that you wrote, and I want to respond to everything. But I need to limit myself.

Do you mean rioting? […]

I don’t know. I don’t think so. But something has to be done, and it can’t wait until the next election. I’m not advocating violence. Part of me wants to say “eat the rich” and “if enough people shows up with torches and pitchforks, what is Musk going to do?”

But violence isn’t solving anything, and besides it would play right into the MAGA dream of a civil war. What has to happen is to copy what MAGA has been doing. Go after local positions. Put prodemocracy persons on school boards, town councils, election boards. Vote in prodemocracy officials like prosecutors, judges, and sheriffs (if any of them aren’t just appointed by now)

The guy even won the popular vote, possibly fair and square. Are you under the impression that there is some action we can take at this point to improve the situation?

He only won the popular vote because of the inactions of good people. Prodemocracy movements need an inspiring leader and a cause. Apparently “save the US, save the world” wasn’t inspiring enough. IDK what would be, but getting the non fascist Americans motivated and organized is imperative.

Refusing to admit the part the Dems play is part of the problem as well. We can’t keep doing the same thing we’ve always done, and if we don’t learn from this we are truly doomed.

I agree, and the part of that paragraph you didn’t quote says pretty much the same thing.