Bully.

You have no idea who you’re talking to.

I do hope your small-mindedness does work out for you, though history has shown being actively hostile to innovation is not a great way to survive rapidly changing environments.

Yeah, no. It is a genuinely useful tool in the hands of people that know how to use it.

People said the same things about calculators, then graphing calculators, then computers, etc. People said the same thing about digital artists. They said the same thing about heavy machinery replacing oxen. They said the same thing over and over again.

Really, really tired of this same braindead cycle repeating. Are there any humans anywhere as a collective that are free thinkers? Anywhere on Earth?

I’m glad to hear that, thank you for sharing.

It sounds like Windows users have a lot more options now, which is a good thing.

Cinnamon, to me, is an in-between, more like modern Windows, which moved in a more macos direction. KDE is like golden age Windows. Gnome is like macos.

When I used Mint (maybe 10 years ago now?), I had all kinds of problems with Cinnamon. KDE was like magic and I always use it now. Perhaps things have changed but we can only make recommendations based on our experiences and knowledge.

Just add a new partition and dual boot, it is pretty easy.

Also I do not recommend Mint for Windows users, because the officially supported UX layers are more apple-esque. Use a distro that has KDE support baked in. Adding KDE to Mint is easy but may not be for people switching.

For that reason, I recommend going with distros with KDE Plasma by default. Kubuntu or KDE neon.

Why KDE? It feels like where Windows should have gone. It’s like the glory days of Windows (windows 2000, etc) in the modern age. It is a drastic upgrade from Windows with more freedom than you ever had.

There are a lot of problems with that stance and I do not have the energy to point them all out, but here is the main one I see.

If you say something in private is illegal, how do you enforce it? Many harmful drugs are illegal, for example, so we justify invasions of privacy with searches of a suspect because the harm of the drugs is so great we are okay with violating people like that.

When you say digital content is illegal in private it justifies searching digital content for enforcement. But the trouble with this is it is digital content and programs can be used to search it…continuously. This sort of search needs to scan EVERYTHING of yours in private. Once you have that, they can add more search criteria and you won’t even know it’s happening.

You have no idea how bad this can get. I hope that you don’t find out.

Bitcoin was publicly released with full code and no pre-mining. It could not be patented for this reason.

The original creator is still unknown and has never moved their coins.

This strategy is the way.

Soy farming is destructive to natural ecosystems. A shame for the farmers in the US, but the nature will be glad and that is more valuable. It does depend on the replacement crop.

I am worried about Brazilian’s nature with the increasing soy farming. Soy needs terrain that competes with beautiful native plants, and with increasing production, more land will be lost, and more water consumed.

The good news is that soy farming makes more sense in Brazil. Higher rainfall means less diverted water. It is actually more ecologically cost effective. Hopefully there will not be much more forest displacement.

Is there a functional difference between what’s happening and martial law?