I used pop-os 24 daily for 6 months or so. I recently installed pop-os 22 because I felt like a beta tester. Cosmic is missing some niceties that I am used to like a battery percentage. It felt like everything is a snap package so running gui things from the command line is hit and miss.

who installed water lines but chose not to monitor them.

Remember that the larger US companies have given hiring decisions to a certain people group. They now control the interview process. Not sure how updated it is but it makes me sad to see the jobs on jobs.now that are given to foreign nationals because of this kind of power. I treasure my foreign friends but this process is hurting American families.

Having said that, there is way too much trust that any package you update will not be malicious.

No, not really. On my dev system, I will npm install something. When I am ready to capture my changes, commit to my dev branch and push. Now a test system can run it. Only then will my changes be merged to production. There is no reason for you to not go through a test system with your changes first. The malicious code would have dropped a payload only on my system and performed it's own housekeeping. My prod system would not have been affected.

I don't play competitively but I pay Icarus, Valheim and fishing planet with friends using pop-os. 2 years ago only Valheim worked well enough to play under Linux but now all three work very well. Installed from steam.

One group of communists taking the property of another group of communists.

I have an arduino uno and 5 or 6 teensy boards. I look at the arduino like a museum piece. In all fairness, I bought the arduino when applying for my first embedded gig.

It was so painful. The machine was purchased because this user only looks at price for things they don't know about (non-it user). I think I was eventually able to disable the locked down part of the app store so I could install windows programs. It is possible I just eventually gave up. I have been a happy Ubuntu user for a long time and am not used to these kinds of restrictions.

I have a family member that purchased one. Them they asked me to help them figure out how to install a program that was not in the Microsoft store.

I was reminded of representative Hank Johnson worried that 8000 Marines stationed on Guam might flip it over

Please provide citation of Elons quote from a first hand source, not a sock puppet source.

You couldn't be more wrong. China has everything to lose. There are many smaller countries with cheap labor and resources who would love to start manufacturing goods to replace China. They would quickly become rock stars. They would be happy to not charge a tariff on American goods at all.

Thank you for sharing that. Interesting read. My only exposure to Stallman is some minor things trying to make him look bad.

It is not unusual for the production branch to be locked down for only release management to update. In that case there was probably a development branch he should have pushed his changes to. One of the wonderful things about git is that you can pull down a copy of the development branch into another directory and update it with your changes.