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Comment Re:They want people that cannot leave (Score 1) 224

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.

Comment Hooray For Encryption! (Score 1) 83

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!

Comment Re:Illegal search applies here (Score 1) 202

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.

Comment Re:Everyone is okay with tracking (Score 2, Insightful) 202

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.

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