I'm using a Dell XPS 420 desktop system a friend gave me a *while* ago right now - so old, it originally had Windows 7 on it.. It's currently my Windows 10 system and has always run Windows well, though I did add a SATA3 PCIe card and switch to a SSD.

I'm currently procrastinating my switch from using it full-time to my Linux Mint 22.2 (Cinnamon) system I assembled using an ASRock Z77 Extreme3 motherboard, a different friend gave me, on which I installed an Intel i7-377 and 32 GB RAM, SSD, etc... That system runs Linux very well. I imagine the XPS 420 would/will run Linux well too.

Then you're misinformed. Again. But since your position is one of being proudly so, rather than seeking to understand unfamiliar notions, I'm leaving this link... and the conversation. If that's TL;DR, feel free to Ctrl+F it for "oil" and then "tobacco".

Bye.

Might as well ask for a pony too while you're at it. :-)

This guy nailed it with the only ID DHS cares about these days.

In case it wasn't clear, a Passport Card, like a regular Passport, is also valid for domestic U.S. travel.

This was kinda spelled out in TFS, but as I understand it, Real ID was just supposed to certify that you are who the ID says you are. It wasn't suppose to verify U.S. citizenship and non-citizens can get Real IDs too. But... you have to show a birth certificate or passport (for which you had to show a birth certificate) to get your Real ID. So they have, or had, your citizenship data at one point. The ID just doesn't show that. Perhaps they just need to update the ID with different shapes/colors for U.S. citizens / non-citizens, etc...

As a note to U.S. citizens, in addition to (or instead of) a Passport Book, you can get a Passport Card, the size of a credit card, noting that it's only good for travel by land and sea from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and some Caribbean countries. It's less expensive than a Passport Book - Adult price for Card: $30 vs Book: $130. And you can have both.

The first paragraph is sort of reasonable, but fraught with confounders. The second is just making the original error but substituting the author's pet cause and adding some religious weirdness. Fortunately the exact same argument deals with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The highest per capita meat consuming countries are non-muslim. The muslim countries are all mid tier except for a couple gulf states, including Qatar.

Sacrificing animals is big part of Islamic religious ritual.

Lol. It's a big part of Christian religious ritual too. That doesn't mean people do it very often.

Oxygen also causes cancer.

No, they're part of normal society that pushes their wishes and ideals as truths. Science is a weird niche branch of philosophy that says that's a bad way to generate knowledge.

That's hard enough for trained scientists to do never mind the masses. So the masses politicize papers with conclusions they don't like. Notice most of the arguments aren't about the data, they're something along the lines of "idiots won't understand this so it's dangerous to publish."

We were talking about why you can't send information faster than the speed of light. Nobody said communication via entangled particles was the same as classical communication. It requires classical communication. In the case you're talking about, that classical communication even has to come first.

I currently have six travel eSIMs in my phone

The article author transfers eSIMS between phones frequently, several times a month. Swapping eSIMS in one phone is easy, quick and much superior to the physical kind. Swapping between phones apparently runs into some problems if your carrier is braindead. That's what the article is complaining about.

You can buy a pay as you go eSIM for cash in many places too. It's the same thing. You can also buy a pay as you go eSIM without going to the store and showing your face to the employees and their security cameras.

The decision to do it was made in 2011, and they've been building the parts that will go into it, and they'd already committed to doing the installation at the end of the current operating period, but the schedule for ending that period is "mid-2026", so he gets to be the one who makes that date exact, with people hoping to get one last experiment that doesn't need the upgrade in before they have to wait a long time.

Noting that Republicans (narrowly) control both the House and Senate - for now anyway.

So, how much $Trump coin did they buy (or other "donations" did they make) before hand?

(Things are already pretty clear but they be much simpler if Trump would just post the fees for his services. /s)