Trying to see what they can get away with. Can I control other things too? I was allowd to dictate how people spend their money here, so why not there?

You won’t run in to coding.

Having decision paralysis? Best to just pick an option and do it. Expect it to go wrong and be pleasantly surprised when it diesn’t. Don’t try to plan it all out. Doing is the best learning. Unsure about something? Press enter and see what happens. Start over if you have to.

Pick Mint. It’s a good start. load it to a USB, reboot, find the boot menu, boot the USB, let the installer guide you. Have another device handy for internet searches if something confuses you. At this point, If for some reason you wanna try another distro, go ahead! Doesn’t hurt to reinstall and try out.

So paypal is unreliable, is the takeaway.

She is busy pushing A1.

Who knew they were discussing how to subvert democracy instead of what they were suposed to discuss. Putin is definitively Trumps handler.

Once trump has converted USA to Russia, everyone will be an alcoholic again. Then the statistics will be asking how many americans think methanol is bad for you. MAAA

I was imagining tunnels underground. Like lava tubes.

I remember my mother briefly being resistant to getting me a violent game at some point. She was not that motivated to moderate what games I bought though. And eventually she didn’t seem to mind anything I was playing.

In my opinon; if you let your kids watch rambo, you better allow them to play rambo.

And plumbing, electricity, water.

I generally don’t get a lot of fat left in my pan. But when there is some, I tend to use it for whatever I cook next. It’s good stuff.

Cause trump has a little russian bird in his ear at all times.

It’s a tradeoff, as you say. Use the platforms and services you are comfortable with. Sacrifice privacy/security for convenience where you must. Your needs; your choice. It’s really individual.

Consider running both untrusted and trusted applications concurrently, where the untrusted one cound run in a sandbox, for peace of mind. Drop it once you feel you don’t need it any more.

Self-censor in forums you don’t feel safe in.

Consider hanging out more in places with less surveilance, if you are not comfortable.

It’s kind of a question of reducing your foot print, not completely eliminating it. Unless you wanna be a hermit.

USA is emulating Russia and will be just as dysfunctional. China is at least producing results.

If you choose Arch, you can say “I use Arch btw”, from time to time, in unrelated conversations. That is a plus and should be considered.

Cause now they could generate the missing part with easy to use ai tools. Or what?

wait… Trump is gonna post a tweet showing Obama sneaking in there during the missing minutes?

Taking the lead, showing initiative and being enthusiastic takes energy. People are lazy. So if you are expected to let someone else do it, then that is an easy choice allot of the time.

Yes there are women all over that enjoy this role from time to time. The more comfortable you are with your partner; the more you can expect to see this behaviour in them.

Males and females are not that different. Your local community might be used to theese roles though.

Worth noting; people offten act the way they think you like them to act. They might think they are expected to wait for you to take charge. As you get familiar, that might change.

They buy aggregated data from every other company and organisation in existance. That includes your purchase history and behaviour in great detail. Of course they will also have the data of your relatives and friends, which they will take in to account.

How would that work?