mangaskahn

Agreed.Also, Windows and OSX, unless you want to have to call your nephew who's Good With Computers™ every couple of weeks. If you're just using a browser for everything and never messing around like a good majority of people, Linux is just as good as either of those. Linux has gotten to the point where it's Grandma proof if you stick to a distribution that prioritizes stability. If you choose a distro that prioritizes bleeding edge software versions, you may come across more bugs and breaking changes.Then you'll need the troubleshooting skills mentioned here. Most of us are here to learn and mess around; the troubleshooting skills grow from that mindset.

I agree with your lack of affection for cloud services, but I think your view might be a little skewed here. Does a senior mechanic need to understand the physics of piston design to be a great mechanic, or just gather years of experience fixing problems with the whole system that makes up the car?

I'm a Senior Systems engineer. I know very little about kernel programming or OS design, but i know how the packages and applications work together and where problems might arise in how they interact. Software Engineers might not know how or don't want to spend time to set up the infrastructure to host their applications, so they rely on me to do it for them, or outsource my job to someone else's computer.

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I've seen it explained elsewhere and it makes sense to me. Kidnapping usually implies a person being taken with the intention of negotiating for their release, where disappeared is more often associated with avoidance of giving any substantial information to a party seeking their return.

I tell my kids, never start it, but if someone hits you, hit them back hard enough that they won't want to do it again. I feel like this works all the way up to state level doctrine.

I feel like you're wrong here. Moses and Joshua were pretty big into the whole genocide thing. Deuteronomy 20:16 for example is pretty clear about that, among many other examples.

If you want to live vicariously, check out this playlist. A guy did just that and his channel is great.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0HiM4heFTOoxnxAnv_WJJArugTScPBUg

Except for the weapons we sold them, the intel reports we provided, etc, etc.

Notepadqq is available on Linux and is a pretty good replacement

You can also try Pinchflat, Its a web front end for yt-dlp, super easy to install ASA docker container.

American here: can we please have measurements by mass not by volume and metric units. It would make repeatability so much easier.

While others are focusing on the legal aspect, which I guess is the question you actually asked, my first thought was bare minimum compliance while gathering evidence. Grab an old phone, wipe it completely, install the app with all new credentials not tied to you in any way, then just leave it running at work. They get their location data, just not anything usable, you get to submit a minimum number of receipts that doesn't get you in trouble from purchases you would have made anyway, or not because why support scumbag companies. You get to gather more hard evidence of their assholery that way. Never install work apps on your personal phone. If they require something for your job, they should provide the hardware to run it on.