Yeah Mint is pretty good for a “starter” Linux OS. This is subjective, but of all the Desktop OSs, I found myself fixing shit in terminal and nailing down obscure issues a lot less often in Mint than other distros. Also, whenever a friend/family member came to me with a very old and “broken” laptop that needed saving that’s what I’d throw on there. Modern Windows is way too much for the 4GB RAM dual core or whatever bullshit on those old machines. The only complaints I ever got out of them were that they couldn’t run .exes and had to use LibreOffice instead of desktop Office apps, but that’s about it. No crashes outside of legitimate equipment failure.

I ran it on my personal machines before I got more comfortable. Now my ideal setup is KDE/Debian though playing around with cachyOS in VMs has been pretty fun.

Nah conspiracies go way back. Delusional behavior and thinking has always been a standard feature for humanity, it’s only relatively recently that it’s become so visible. Satanic Panic, red scare, and UFO conspiracies were a relatively big thing throughout the mid to late 20th century - and still are. Illuminati conspiracies go back hundreds of years. There are at least several dozen more examples like this and that’s only if you don’t wanna get all religious with it and include stuff like the Millerites or the Popish Plot.

Mainly because the internet was a place you had to actually visit. It couldn’t follow you around all day and intercede in daily affairs.

In the old days, every village had one or two idiots. Thanks to the internet, the idiots have created their own village.

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Just repasted both of mine with phase change materials and thermal putty, including GPU dies. Looking at getting better/more fans and a smarter hub soon. Gonna make this 5800X3D last as long as possible; I’m in this for the long haul lol

sounds like someone has never watched the 2006 film “The Da Vinci Code”, based on the 2003 Dan Brown novel of the same name

the power of weaponized religion? ngl pretty powerful