That's because other countries provide college educations to educate their students. In the U.S., universities offer educations to make lots of money. If the students happen to learn something, that's just a bonus. In that regard, it's like every other sector currently in late-stage capitalism.

@XenoPanther described the project on X as "more of a fun proof of concept rather than something usable."

Interesting - that's how I view the full version of Windows nowadays.

With SystemD it will either boot quickly or spend 90 to 180 seconds waiting for a (usually) non-critical service to time out before it attempts to finish booting.

You can request the video all you want but the prosecutor will not send it to you. You'll get to see it once it's entered as evidence in court.

On the desktop front, Ubuntu 26.04 will also bring seamless TPM-backed full disk encryption. If this approach reminds you of Windows BitLocker or MacOS FileVault, it should. That's the idea.

I know this is for desktops, but could you please update the Ubuntu Server installer so that we can have FDE on drives with software RAID? The installer will let you create an encrypted partition via a volume group for / on top of software RAID, but the installer craps out with a fatal error while attempting to install GRUB (please note that /boot and /boot/efi are on their own unencrypted partitions within the RAID array when I encounter this error). In some ways, this kind of makes sense since volume groups are largely redundant if you're using RAID, but please give us a sensible way to do this!

First Bowser retires and now Gannon makes unauthorized financial disclosures. What's next, Wario being indicted for possessing meth and aggravated assault?

Yes, ever since MAGA, projection has been become the new norm. But I was referring to the saner times before MAGA where Republicans were a bit more likely to practice what they preached (relatively speaking).

There has to be probable cause to search, or to try to verify the identity of people

Unfortunately, laws don't apply to the branch that controls the military because those laws can't be realistically enforced. The past 250 years have been great because our leaders largely acted in good faith, but human history shows us that that behavior is the exception, and the norm is closer to Game of Thrones.

I really am waiting for states and local governments to tell ICE that they are not welcome, and to arrest anyone from ICE who violates the rights of people within their area of control.

This is exactly what Trump and the authors of Project 2025 want because it would present them with a pretense for invoking the Insurrection Act. Mark my words, the instant a violent uprising even 10% of the size of Jan 6 occurs, we'll enter the next phase of Trump's authoritarianism and there will be no turning back. The only way to fight it is Defiance Without Violence. If he exhausts all of his support before he gets his pretense for invoking the Insurrection Act, there's at least a chance Congress will be pressured to reign in his power if Republicans hope to maintain a majority in both chambers.

For most of my life, Republicans have been warning about the dangers of government overreach and for all of that time I'd felt that their claims were overstated or far-fetched. It seems they're out to prove me wrong by becoming everything they claimed to be against.

If ICE ever comes to my area, I'll just start wearing a mask in public. Or would wearing a mask put me at risk for being arrested for impersonating a federal officer?

Well who the hell is going around giving dental fillings to fish?

President Trump has directed the Department of Defense to restart nuclear weapons testing. The directive appears to be a counter measure to rival nations catching up with the US. The last US nuclear test was an underground test, on September 23, 1992, in Nevada.

I wholeheartedly agree - the only way to know for sure that a nuclear warhead works is to test it. Therefore, we should test all of our warheads just to be safe.

Exactly! Here in civilized countries we choose our dictators.

Childbirth has always been a physically painful process and yet humans have done it throughout our entire existence. Childbirth has also historically been a dangerous process which could lead to severe consequences, including death. And yet today we have far more options for managing pain during childbirth as well as much lower rates of complications and death compared to most of the rest of human history. I'm not attempting to claim these things are negligible - they're certainly not to the people going through them. I'm just stating that they were far worse in the past and despite that birth rates were much higher.