I'd agree with you if we were raised somewhere else. We grew up in San Antonio.

I got beat up daily for being the only white kid in my school (well my brother was there but he got beat up more than I did.)

Racism is just another style of mob rule from those that have no other claim of power or self worth. It's also a way to be part of a larger group that involves no effort.

Teaching self respect based on accomplishments and self and human dignity is the best way to combact racism.

I remember in the late 90's being a computer science major. I did a lot of programing for fun and thought that it would be a good career (it may have been).

I was shocked, though, at how much math was actually involved in computer programing once you got past the basic stuff I was doing. (I didn't even realize how basic the stuf I was doing was until I actually took CS classes post high school.)

Interesting. I wasn't aware of non-debian distros using apt. Thank you

I don't think the US as a whole is as backwards in this regards as you think it is.

Some people are but not the vast majority.

I'm in Texas and my first wife was black (she passed away) and my current wife is hispanic. No one bats an eye at this and that is over 20 years ago.

You can't convince them otherwise.

Just like they assume you are anti-vax even if you are fully vacinated for everything but covid.

Is it more efficent? Since it uses apt, it appears just to be a stripped down debian install.

This is still nice if you have a small harddrive and don't want to go through the trouble of deciding what you want to install.

The other question is while it's great to keep old equipment out of landfills, is the tradeoff worth it considering how power hungry the older devices are?

Since you have to log in to post anonymously, do the Karma moderations still hit your account?

You were doing so well until that last statement. It makes your post look overly emotional and untrustworthy.

They installed them based on the summary.

They are asking for permision to not have to support them until the end of times and instead upgrade them to something more modern.

They are even stating they will suport them until an alterntive is in place.

"All AT&T California customers will continue to receive their traditional landline services until an alternative service becomes available by AT&T or another provider."

Yeah - I honestly see it as a good thing that they seem to pretty much throw everything against the wall and see what sticks versus getting stuck in a tunnel vision of one way.

How do you do that? I have pictures of my deceased wife that I want to alter. I know it's stupid and probably unhealthy but would love to see new images of her from real ones. It's been 10 years and I still miss her daily and wouldn't mind something unreal. (And I'm not talking anything pervy, just different.)

You have to have goals. That's like saying why go green when we are not yet 100% able to survive solely on green energy.

That's fine. Maybe instead of caring what the rest of the world is doing, make your protest and move on.

Enough people doing this may make a difference but deciding that enough people won't and giving up will definetly not make a difference.