FWIW, while we disagree from time to time, I hardly think you are a sad loner. But as to your comment about having nothing to hide, please remember the line from Torquemada, "Give me 12 lines written by the most honest of men, and I shall find something (within) to hang them."
Just because you think you have nothing worth knowing (or hiding) doesn't mean others feel the same way about your words.
Yet *another* Linux distro! I can't wait to try it after I've tried all the other (checks DistroWatch...) 100+ distros that are out there that need my time and attention.
Seriously gang, there are so many distros out there that aim to be "lightweight" and "designed for older computers" but let's be honest with ourselves shall we? How many core 2 duo systems are still in *active* use out there? There is a shelf life on old hardware and I suspect much is already in landfills.
I didn't switch for privacy, I've got enough ad-blockers, etc at my home network for that, I switched (from Chrome) because it was taking forever to open 20 tabs.
I imported everything to FF, and opened the same 20 tabs, and poof, right there, no delay.
Google's geniuses decided that switching tabs is something one needs to do with a mouse.
CTRL-PgDown / CTRL-PgUp. Geez...
And before you ask: Reposition the current tab using CTRL-SHIFT-PgDn / CTRL-SHIFT-PgUp.
"...Although I am unable to go into specifics, we had to evaluate our priorities and had to make the difficult decision to discontinue the service."
"Sensors detect Microsoft OneDrive contract, Captain..."
Narrator: "It was not, in fact, cheaper to host their files in The Cloud."
And at what cost? He alienated his first wife and sons, all for chasing sound. What a wasted life.
Someone smart with an RPi and a bit of code can intercept NNTP queries.
"Um, Actually..."
You meant NTP, the Network Time Protocol. NNTP is Network News Transfer Protocol, used to pass around USENET posts.
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You'd have to take in a fair bit of formaldehyde for it to be a problem.
Define "fair bit."
Does the outgassing from petrochemical foam, force-fed through your nasal cavities and into your lungs for eight hours every night, constitute a "fair bit?"
Looks like a Kia Stinger to me...
I got close once, I applied for a Social Security number (way back in the 90s, before all this was computerized and cross-ref'd) for my Monitor Lizard (varanus rudicollis spp.) mostly to see if I could.
Funny you should say this. I am employed by the gov't, and we were heavily invested in Ubuntu. After the RedHat kerfuffle, our Agency wisely decided to dump everything we had created under Ubuntu, and switch at RedHat.
You tax dollars at work....
Assuming the anti-cheat software package of the day doesn't freak out about it. At work (gov't lab) plenty of software will refuse to run if it detects VMs or Wine, or the like. When you hit the world of bespoke business applications, all rules go out the window sadly.
Would love to ditch MS, and while it is possible (with a great deal of adjustment) at home, it's impossible in the workplace because so many companies write bespoke software that runs ONLY under the Windows environment.
Saying "Just install Linux!" misses the point of having to run Windows in the first place....the VAST software base.
Sincerely:
I huge Linux fan of 30 years.
Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself.
