Most advertising links are routed through click tracing sites so that they can add some tracking information about what advertising campaign brought the user there and what that user does while on the site among other tracking data. In the rare cases i want to see something from an email, I never click on links, I always copy the URL being displayed and paste it. You can get email clients that have settings to warn you about this or that will automatically use the displayed link and ignore the anchor link.
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For what it's worth, I actually had a lot easier time with NVIDIA graphics on Ubuntu and Fedora than Mint. And Kubuntu with the Plasma desktop was the easiest to get my partner converted from Windows without much tweaking.
You could try the booting the live CD and see if you're able to get the graphics working more easily. And I've never seen that second issue on either Ubuntu or Fedora, so not sure what's up there.
I'm not too happy with the direction Canonical is taking Ubuntu right now, but it typically has the most documentation for when issues come up and has a very healthy development cycle, so I still recommend it to most people as a starting place. To me, Mint has always been a little too opinionated and catering to the less technical and thus harder to tweak. Ubuntu kind of does it in a way that makes it easier to override the default easy-mode kind of stuff. Just a general observation from decades of Linux use, and may or may not be as true for the current versions.
I use Fedora with Plasma desktop on my other desktop/laptop devices because I prefer RHEL to Debian based stuff, probably just got used to it using CentOS and now Rocky for all my servers over the years.
Seems a lot of futo fans were advocating that it was "open-source" because the code is available while ignoring that an essential part of something being consider open-source is that the source is licensed openly as well as being viewable openly.
Unlikely at least in the near future. The remnants of Dodd-Frank and anything that Biden did are high on the list for Trump's chopping block.
I've been using it for a while. It does most that gboard does, but the predictions aren't as good of course.
The great firewall isn't designed to protect those inside from the outside. It is designed to isolate those inside from getting outside. It's like saying a prison wall is there to protect the prisoners from invaders. Sure in Fallout they worked out to be useful for that, but that isnt what it was built for and would have needed modifications like turning the barbed wire outwards to make it work for that purpose better.
I use NFS shares for all of my volumes so they're more portable for future expansion and easier to back up. It uses additional disk space for the cache of course, but i have plenty.
When I add a second server or add a dedicated storage device as I expand, it has made it easier to move with almost no effort.
I never got this kind of porn. I mean I like porn as much as anyone, but why would I want all of the people to have basically the same, "perfect" body parts and skin and such. That's so boring, IMHO.
The only reason I might be interested in seeing a celebrity nude is to see what their individual body looks like after I've been scintillated by seeing them in something sexy. There are tons of attractive porn actresses if I want to see a sculpted body or someone else's body. Though, for me, lack of consent is a big turn off. But I get that doesn't apply to the majority of porn users. They like the scandal of it and think of it as a taboo around an object rather than an invasion of an actual person's privacy.
Anyway, if you consume a lot of this type of porn, doesn't it get boring really quick?
No Zuckerberg is just part of the fascist movement now, since the right uses corporate social media and is more tolerant of ads than the left now. Before he was more interested in attracting technically literate people who would actually use the platform and were more tolerant of user experience changes as they tried to become more profitable, which was more the left. Now that technical literacy is allowing them to move to platforms where they aren't a product, so the profit is in the people who are stuck with the platform.
Reduce space used by cars and give it to the robots. Increase funding for public transportation to compensate. Overall, this will improve lots of things and the problem is being caused by corporations, not pedestrians, so if people don't like "giving up their cars", then they can complain to the corporations instead of complaining to the cities.
Also Canonical has added a lot of problems to promote their monetization strategies lately. Mostly aimed at business rather than regular users, but still causes problems for home users.
I generally prefer RHEL based distros over Debian based ones, so Rocky Linux for servers is my current go to and Fedora for desktop, though Fedora is heading in a similar direction as Ubuntu I feel...
Yeah, the system was on a single server at first and eventually expanded to either a docker swarm or Kubernetes cluster. So the single server acts as both a docker host and an NFS server.
I've had this happen multiple times, so I use this pattern by default. Mostly these are volumes with just config files and other small stuff that it's OK if it's duplicated in the docker cache. If it is something like large image caches or videos or other volumes that I know will end up very large then I probably would have started with storage off the server in the beginning. It saves a significant amount of time to not have to reconfigure everything as it expands if I just have a template that I use from the start.