Unfortunately true. The leopards are getting obese from all the face eating

If you are “startled” by Cheeto attacking black & brown people you really haven’t been paying attention

Thanks for checking. Very kind of you. Some sort of android tv device by the sound of it.

What are the details of the “extra tiny box” brand name or whatever ? Yes that does sound like what OP wants

As an occasional tourist to France that doesnt seem unreasonable to me either. I mean as long as it’s not like treble or something

Tokens get spent

While the budget comparison to the NYPD may well be true (I’ll take your word for it), when you’re paying your soldiers a dollar a day the $11bn the NYPD spends each year goes a long way

https://vera-institute.files.svdcdn.com/production/downloads/publications/a-look-inside-the-new-york-city-police-department-budget.pdf?dm=1592419744

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

OK, in broad terms you want a distro that is reasonably up to date, but doesn’t have to be bleeding edge.

I run Mint Cinnamon and Arch KDE for the limited gaming I do, they both work perfectly fine.

Almost all games that have a Linux port will have the support & requirements specified for Ubuntu, which has a KDE flavour, however most people won’t recommend Ubuntu (for good reasons). An Ubuntu derivative with the issues removed however is a decent choice: Mint or PopOS.

Mint is by a long way the most recommended Linux distro for beginners and for good reason - the install process is easy, the community is supportive, and it does pretty much everything straight out of the box.

Cinnamon desktop environment is customisable, not as much as KDE. If you’re really keen on sticking with KDE then either EndeavourOS (which is basically a bundling of Arch so it’s easy to install) or KDE Plasma - which is Debian based but more up to date than Sid I believe.

I don’t recommend Arch for beginners unless you’re highly technical and willing to RTFM.

Most windows games will work in linux via proton/wine etc. You’re Your only really blocked ones are the couple of companies that insist on kernel anti-cheat and are anti-Linux (EA I think ?) it’s a handful of AAA games that are locked out.

Generally you don’t need any hardware changes nowadays, in fact it’s often the other way around - stuff that W10 & 11 no longer support can often be made to work on linux. AMD & Intel GPUs are less troublesome than Nvidia, but it’s generally not a big deal anymore.

Reddit’s /r/linuxgaming has fairly reasonable people (for reddit) and a fairly deep archive that will allow you to search for the specific games you most play, and ways to get them running.

Is there a way to get rid of the huge distracting “Swipe for next article” overlay on the-independent.com?

uBlock Origin and add “annoyances” to your filter list

Excellent point. Yes. That will certainly work, takes a bit longer but a good option

Icepick into the sidewall or in between the tread pattern requires less force / strength and is much less obvious than slashing the tyres. Goes down slower though (which can be good or bad depending on the situation)

I hope this helps the fight against fascism. It certainly can’t hurt. I imagine the Nazis will now declare martial law or send troops into NYC

Ahh gotcha. I hadn’t read it that way but yes, I can see your point

While I’m strongly in favour of Ukraine getting all the weapons and much more help, looking to Australia to do more is a bit unrealistic.

Australia has a massive problem with China’s money buying influence right on its doorstep, island nations on their doorstep are being wooed with money to corrupt leaders and infrastructure projects with hidden shackles. It doesn’t have the deep pockets of the US or Germany, and it has both a massive naval area to protect, as well as the expectation of assisting defence of allied micro nations.

As an analogy it would be like asking Poland to send assistance to Taiwan at a time that Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and the Baltics were being wooed (with an implied threat under the covers) by Russia.

Yes, China is helping Russia threaten them, but sending assistance to Taiwan won’t fix the problem

Now turn it around, substitute Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, PNG for Czechia etc and reverse the roles of China & Russia

I’m glad Australia is doing some, but given they’re not a major military power nor manufacturer, places like South Korea would be a better place to leverage

Yes unfortunately that’s not true. Several reddit threads have suggested it is chatGPT fantasy, but regardless of the source, here is:

The actual regs in question https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/2024-12-28

Ycombinator analysing it (and saying it’s not an issue) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44765939

Xiaomi saying it’s fine (their article was apparently the source of the misinfo) https://xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-eu-isnt-ending-bootloader-unlocks-soon-59697/

GrapheneOS saying it’s not an issue https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114981731913328733 https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1951434556957138962 and https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24601-eu-is-banning-bootloaders-unlock/10

Less reliable sources reporting on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sPFj9EP7YE https://biggo.com/news/202508021532_EU_Radio_Equipment_Directive_Misunderstood https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/new-eu-regulatory-what-are-the-consequences-for-jolla-and-sailfish/24015/10

Can you point me to this regulation ? First I’ve heard of it.

Umm I think it is Google who are trying to kill access to FOSS. How can you blame the EU for that ?

Google aren’t seriously trying to blame someone else for their own choices now are they ?

That’s a weird headline.

Firstly a Pole can’t confidently state whether Russia will or won’t do something, it’s not in their control. Secondly the gap is exactly where everyone has expected Russia to play shenanigans for decades.

So yeah, “Polish General expects Russia to escalate their provocations around the Sulwaki Gap” would be a better headline

The full list of employers caught is on the press release linked above - maybe your employer wasn’t there ? There’s also a link for working out if you’re being gypped and what to do (if you’re not on the list)

Comrade ! I have bad news ! The great Soviet Republic has fallen ! Communism is over, welcome to 1990.

Yes I know you’re joking but it’s incredible the number of people who don’t get that Russia pivoted from authoritarian pseudo-communism to straight up fascism via oligarchic anarchy 30 years ago. The only kinda sorta commies left are in Central/South America