Distro isn’t important, for a novice user the defference, basically, is what software is in the official repository, and how easy it is to google shit. Unless you chose something very obscure somehow, you’ll be fine.

There is a very lovely pattern I see. Every time there is a conversation on the internet, everyone totally always voted and participated and canvassed and run and also fed the homeless at the same time, and every time there are any elections upcomming, there is no end to the constant anti-democracy messages about how voting is pointless and nobody should do that because both sides.

In the end, around 20% of registered voters are voting in democratic primaries, and I repeat my thesis, every time the nominee was the person who got the most votes, every time. So the answer to your question - they already care what you think, and if more people were agreeing with you, then maybe they would do what you want. So far they’re doing what majority of voters wants, and that’s not on the shadowy democratic demons, it’s on majority.

For the whole history of democratic primaries, the nominee was always the one that received the most votes. It probably of doesn’t have to be, but it always is. “they” in question are people of America who know more than nothing about how democracy in their country works.
Progressives are going to bitch and moan about how nobody does what they want, but will refuse to participate in the very process designed to ask them what they want.
It’s almost like some idiots on the internet don’t want change, they want to be oppressed.

Your fucking politics permuates the whole world, you motherfuchers can’t do shit yourselves, you fuckers made it everyone else’s business. Fix your shit or quit whining.

The way Americans vote doesn’t correlate with what they want. When the rich want something, they engage with the established systems to work towards their goal. When the people want something, they tend to ignore the systems that are made specifically to hear their voices, and do everything but use them. Then the system works as intended, and everyone’s surprised.
We can’t really blame an average American, they’re overworked, uneducated, solitary, angry, dumb, and confused. But it is what it is.

Recently, you, Americans, made it crystal clear that campaigning on universal healthcare will not get you elected. Numerous times. Obamacare was the last time the word healthcare wasn’t a ticket to losertown. A bunch of progressives got this stupid idea that if you don’t vote, things will magically happen exactly as you want them to happen. Then they’re surprised that regressives vote their people in power and implement exactly what they want to implement.

That’s my point, I don’t believe blogposts paint the whole picture.

I call bullshit. They might say they’re opt-in, I bet they have some way to use the personal data that technically doesn’t violate very specific wording of the rule.

Getting a bit philosophical

I need to get home quickly

With the levels of deregulation in the US, everything will eventually contain shit.

There was an old Soviet joke. American and Soviet guys met at a bar and started talking about each other’s countries. American said, “I have a freedom of speech, I can stand in front of the White House and yell “Reagan is an idiot”, and nobody will do anything to me”. And the soviet guy answered "well, I too have the same freedoms, I absolutely can stand on the Red Square and yell “Reagan is an idiot”.

Back to your point, Wikipedia is blocked in China

And a bunch of people didn’t but we don’t talk about them, it was the norm back then.

That you know of

Shit like that needs to be stopped while it’s just someone’s wild wet dreams. When it will become solid plans with budget and deadlines, it will already be too late

Framework’s whole model is to accommodate for exceptions.

Some people have dead laptops with fried motherboards or dead batteries, or cracked screens, that are absolutely unrepairable but have memory and alive ssds. I know I do.

More powerful i5 with 32GM RAM and a bunch of expansion cards amounted to about 1200€. A bit more than similarly specked 15-17 laptops, but preliminary I couldn’t find anything with this speks in this formfactor, so I couldn’t compare properly.

By sitting on your ass dreaming of firebombing Wallmart, and spamming the word genocide all over the internet, you collectively chose the latter. Now you pretend you’re going to push someone somewhere or build something. But you weren’t able to build enough momentum to go vote once, with this skill and energy, the only community you’re going to be supporting is a community of fungi between your toes.
I don’t know, maybe you personally did everything correctly (it’s the internet afterall, we’re all perfect here on anonimous forums), but judging by this conversation, I assume you were among the online forces trying to come up with new and exciting ways to combine the words genocide and joe together. Which, undeniably, led to some people, when facing the unfortunately real dichotomy of american general election, chosing the dark path.

Damn, if only there was a commend that I made explaining in exactly one sentence why I think your push for “how much danger in Newtons should the government exurb” is nonsense.
Oh, wait, there is one, you just refused to engage with it.