There is likely a much higher density with phones. But anyone with a modern ISP and modern router has the majority of their home devices just using IPv6 natively, seamlessly.

That's okay, they have tons of mass transit. Just use that, right?

I'd rather not see them release fast and possibly buggy but instead go slow and have a very stable release.

Having been perfecting some expert mode installs with LMDE's live-installer, I'm glad to hear they're doing the same with LM. Consolidating is a win for the devs and the users.

I would like to see some improvements to live-installer's expert modes to allow for fully scriptable installs. I know this isn't like to be the direction the devs are looking for, but I sure would like to have a way to mass roll-out LM/LMDE.

Do they have to complete their time in the re-education camp first or not?

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

And no snaps or telemetry.

Mozilla ESR repository works just fine. I've been using it for a near decade, even before snaps, as I wanted more control as to when I'd shift versions and prefer the slower pace of ESR.

I began shifting to Linux Mint about 5 years ago and the same Mozilla ESR repo works great there as well.

Trust but verify.

Direct link to video at just the right time:
https://youtu.be/EyjnoksVSL4?t...

Yet again, the Babylon Bee nailed it....

https://babylonbee.com/video/t...

..."making DOS-literacy portable."

I believe it was when MS-DOS 5.0 came out and my dad purchased a copy at the beginning of the summer at Fry's in Sunnyvale. I read the instruction manual for the commands cover to cover. I used to commute with him during the summer to the Silicon Bay Area and would use his laptop to try out all of the commands and learn all of the flags. Bored teenager about to enter high school, but learning "archaic" commands like this has served me well.

When other kids were taking typing classes in HS, I was doing self-study learning NetWare (all from books), and then I'd get home and dink with our home server. I was fortunate to get a job the day after graduating HS in the Silicon Bay Area with my skills, and the sky has been the limit since then doing what I enjoy.

As much as I dislike many of BG & MS monopolistic and "crush all competition" practices, I do owe him some thanks for MS-DOS and the timing of the PC revolution. Having a PC of my own, even if it was a "Blue Chip" clone with Hercules monochrome was pretty amazing having MS-DOS and GW-BASIC to learn on. I typed up a ton of free BASIC games found in free trade magazines available at Fry's. I'm pretty sure this was the model I had, but no modem (that came a year or so later):
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1...

It's a publicity stunt to pump up the book sales of his new Source Code book.

HA and Kasa doesn't require any cloud/IoT access. It works 100% local.

I guarantee you that the vampire power draw of many devices, especially gaming consoles and entertainment systems, dwarfs the power draw of a Kasa smartplug.

I've implemented dozens of these throughout the house. All blocked from any cloud access, and only deployed where the power savings outweighed the cost of the device factored over 5 years of savings, including the constant power draw of the Kasa device.