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...only other listing here are the slave driver factories you know to avoid like the plague cause they treat workers like well slaves, where you will work 12-14 hours a day 6 and 7 days a week for about $10/Hr and yeah no overtime pay. Assuming "here" is Indiana, I'm raising the B.S. flag...

Well it maybe has purpose on server systems, but, for desktop users, BTRFS = bloated totally redundant file system , which makes Your OS main purpose to create backups, and backups of backups, and so on ... It remainds me of ZFS ... but you need a backup of the backup of the backup of the backup.

Thanks for the thoughts and sympathies. Surprisingly, there are a job openings here ... unfortunately, most of them are jobs I do not want. Big Box Retail, fast food, delivery driver, etc. 1. im jealous of the machines you were able to snag. 2. where I am jobs ain't any better. pretty much same as ...

Failsafe OOTB security is a pipe dream, it'll never happen in Linux or any other OS. In fact one of the best bits of advice I ever heard is that the WORST thing you can so re security is to install some app, or avenb OS, thinking it'll make you hack proof. Even if you have a machine that you don't ...

most likely 11 will roll with the 5.8 Kernel.

I've never had much money. I have a low income (I'm disabled ). But I always try to save some money :D I never had much money in my life i just hardly got by. now after heart attack last year and the effects of that, doubt I will ever see much money again. for people like me its impossible to save,...

I don't dual. each machine gets 1 os. Main machines have LMDE. server has debian, and the spare box that don't get much of any use still has Fedora on it (fedora 31 I think) also got a mac mini somewhere around here that has osx.

I would never use a 15 year old computer.What's the point of this ? You can buy a decent new computer these days for a relatively low price. oh that is easy when you have money to spare. but for some of us we have a hard enough time scraping pennies to put fuel in a car. let alone spending a few hu...

If it requires me to manually wipe my HDD then can you please help me with the same as I'm new to this ecosystem :) Linux Mint Install guide https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html If Linux Mint is the only operating system you want to run on this computer and all...

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Fri Sep 25, 2020 3:17 pm

Yes, quite a lot of people still use 32-bit systems. They only stopped selling them in the late 2000s.

fascinating, I use "throw away" stuff and I had not come across anything unable to use 64 in well several years now.

If you are concerned about breakage during and upgrade from 4 to 5 (when ever 5 comes out) just wait a couple months and see if any issues are reported, if none reported in the couple month wait, then might as well upgrade to 5. (what I will most likely do is upgrade after about 60 days or so with n...

@ddog241 +1 for the Elim Garak reference! :D "Lying is a skill like any other. And if you want to maintain a level of excellence, you have to practice constantly." - Garak, to Worf (DS9: "In Purgatory's Shadow") ""Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true an...

Spectrum cable recently replaced the cable that was buried from the terminal box to my house. They said it was "broadcasting". It did have a few nicks in it from various contractors. :) its called cable leak, cable systems transmit RF down the cable and if the cable is leaky it can radiat...

I think the future of Ubuntu is safe. Mee too, as safe as any bar perhaps RedHat. Debian has had their internal problems too. Redhat/Fedora Debian Arch I don't see going under any time soon. Ubuntu.... they have the power to stick around, however id say they are one spyware away from disaster.

between 1 and 100,000,000 users.

My introduction to Linux was in 2014, with LM Cinnamon on this old Acer P4 machine. After some initial issues with broken fonts and few other annoyances (maybe my own lack of experience at the time) I decided to switch to Mate - and I have loved it since then, because it just worked fine and got th...

well looks like 32bit will stick around for another release, I do find that interesting does anyone still use 32bit?

Part of why I moved my main machines over to LMDE (still using 4.19). was using fedora before that and with fedora you get a new kernel every day or every other day, gets kind of repetitive. Be interesting to see if we get a new 4.19 in the coming week since there's a new build on kernel.org. I kno...

Even very young children lie. Lying is human. Very human. I read somewhere that the "average" person lies average several times a day. :D I don't know how true this is. I myself don't have to lie very often (as my social life is very poor ). as long as they follow Elim Garaks tip "ne...

depending how old, most likely it needs the caps replaced.