I totally agree. I mean I'm amazed that while DOGE was there, Musk didn't also use the opportunity to totally replace their ancient system.
Not least because access and control of that data would have put him in an incredibly powerful political position.

Sorry but I don't waste my time reading any media source as strongly biassed as the NY Times.

https://www.allsides.com/news-...

I don't want to comment on exactly what got cut or how, but it's not a surprise to me that an evaluation of a government department would find significant numbers of positions/employees that don't add enough value to justify staying employed.
Actually I'm just surprised it's as low as about 20%.

We're at the point where there's really no credible argument against the existence of UAPs (as in, not necessarily alien but exhibit behaviour WAY beyond the possibility of our current tech). There is now just too many highly credible witnesses and more importantly, highly credible data (including stuff the US and other governments have themselves declassfied/released) to actually put that genie back in the bottle, like the US and other western governments have always been trying to do, since at least 1952 and project bluebook.
  The only remaining question is "what actually are they?".
I suspect Trump's speech, if it exists at all, will just re-acknowledge the existence of unknown aerial phenomena, while also toeing the state/pentagon line regarding their complete lack of any concrete knowledge about them.

The only space for opinion here is why any intelligent person would choose to believe that no one in any of the hundreds of 3 letter agencies or deep states around the world actually knows any more than nothing about them, after multiple decades if not centuries of evidence and research, using all the military and space tech and other resources that (especially the US) has access to.

I just need a good text editor with 4 functions:
Open (text-only files), save, search and replace.
No markdown support, no AI copilot, no formatting, no lists, no URL support, no tables, no autocorrect.

Ya know, kinda just like the old notepad, except with the ability to show line numbers (the only thing I thought notepad needed). I saw the new one still can't either, despite all its other kitchen-sink bloat.

No privacy concerns at all there.

Yeah that doesn't work well either.

I don't believe any of the books you mentioned would be found in the Romance section.

>> McDonald's fries are still pretty darn good too.
Sorry but I REALLY can't agree with that one.

Wouldn't it give better results if just one did it?

Romance novels have already been entirely formulaic for decades.
No one with the low enough IQ required to actually buy and read that trash will care or even notice.

Just one more 'we need your personal data because "think of the children"' ploy that all the sheep will mindlessly comply with.

Discord can go f*** itself.

How is it that Microsoft have never understood the relative priority of YOUR actual work area (especially vertical space), compared to the need for imemdiate access to a ton of secondary crap features that no-one ever really uses?

Any of the Office apps and also their programming IDEs immediately come to mind as great examples.

I don't think "they" (the world's scientists) are singling out USA for panic all.
The reality is that only about 2 or 3% of the world's climate scientists believe anthropogenic climate change is false (and of those that do, many have clear ties to the fossil fuel industry).
There are very real (and very measurable) consequences currently happening as a direct result of climate change. For example around 1 million plant and animal species are currently threatened with extinction, with climate change being the major driver of these declines.
If you don't care about the anything other than humans, then let's consider the peoples of low-lying island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Maldives, and Marshall Islands.The entire nation of Tuvalu expects to be mostly below the waves by 2050 due to rising sea levels.
Yet for whatever reason, many if not most Americans (including your president) still choose to live in complete denial, apparently preferring to label well-researched facts about climate change as just fear mongering by some nutjob scientists that have it out for them personally.
Given you appear to be one such person, would you please explain why?

Apparently a Linux phone is doable these days and quite affordably if you're prepared to hunt down the right phone and run an installer.

I've just ordered a factory-unlocked Oneplus N10 5G from ebay (new still sealed in box) for $180, with the intention of installing Ubuntu touch and Waydroid on it (my goal is controlling my privacy more than android+google services allows).

I'm looking forward to the phone arriving this week, and to finding out how actually usable this will be as a daily driver.
Maybe the reality is that it will still turn out to suck in one or more ways, but my hopes are up after having done quite a bit of online reading and also getting mostly great results from multiple experiments running waydroid and touch on a laptop first (before ordering the phone).

I'd be very interested in this if only the base OS was Debian, not Android.
As for windows, very no thanks. I surprisingly don't want a VERY bloated spyware-ridden piece of unusable crap anywhere near my phone.