Comment Re:about time (Score 1) 276
It didn't really work in Die Hard 3 either. It was pancake syrup.
It didn't really work in Die Hard 3 either. It was pancake syrup.
This needs a higher score than it has. Alas, I have no mod points.
A +1 Funny mod if I had the points, for one thing.
This is the type of answer I was looking for. Thank you. That's a SERIOUS thing to consider and I actually forgot all about that little 'issue.'
Submitter here. Remember that this is a question about an environment for a non-technically inclined person. Maybe as a qualifier, I should've said I have limited time to set this up for her, but I did say that I was comparing them based on the out-of-the-box experience.
So, to answer your question, Mint (and any out-of-the-box-ready desktop distribution) buys you the convenience of your computer 'just working' after OS installation. No drivers to install, no kernel rebuilding, no extra software to worry about (both Mint and its parent, Ubuntu, come with an office suite and almost every common utility a casual web user would ever need) - nothing. Install and go.
"Debian is a real PIA about binary kernel ethernet drivers." is an immediate deal killer there for just straight Debian. That's more work than I should have to put in for a machine that's more or less just going to be used as an appliance rather than a workstation.
Anarchism is so 1960s.
Century doesn't have any extant meanings other than 'one hundred consecutive years' and 'the name of a font type.' Anything else long fell out of use.
If you weren't anon, I'd mod this comment up so hard you'd get an orgasm that could be felt from across the world.
It doesn't. Decryption is done client-side.
Your encrypted data, you mean? I don't mind them selling my encrypted data, honestly. Would take more time to unencrypt it than it's really worth and they'd just lose money. Renting out those botnets DOES cost something and it'll take them a while to break AES128.
Case in point:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Glock_26.JPG
^ Plastic. Feels plastic. Not a cheap piece of shit.
And the ones that aren't lesbians are fucking crazy. That's animu for you.
...which would only be better if it had tits and were on fire.
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