The massive tax cut going through the US Senate right now

What tax cut?

They are merely making permanent the current tax levels we have NOW...otherwise eveyrone's taxes are going to jump way up....

As for the rest of your rant...wow, you sounds like a nervous nelly, how are you able to sleep at night being so frighten the sky is falling and that climate change will send us to the Stone Age in the next year or so....

I'm still always confused at your worry about the US and how we conduct our business here, since you are not living here and not an American.....?

What makes you say that? How much PBS News Hour have you watched recently?

I tend to flip through all the news shows/channels I can on almost a daily basis....

I"ll admit tt's likely been a month or so, last time I tuned into the news programs on PBS, but I find they like NPR are usually quite leftist slanted much of the time.

Candidate A: hardworking successful and respected prosecutor, Senator, and Vice President. Exemplary record of promoting health care, voting rights, and reducing gun violence and crime. Full understanding and adherence to the rule of law. Well educated. Articulate as a court officer should be.

LOL...good one,always start out with a joke.

Oh man...especially good is that "articulate" part at the end there..hehehe.

Thanks for the morning laugh my friend....

PBS News Hour is pretty solid

Pretty solid left leaning for sure...

Yup. And as the brain reduces receptors to compensate for the increased dopamine levels you get an increased craving for more drug hits. So just like opiates, nicotine, amphetamines, and cocaine, people just keeping coming back again and again for their next Fox hit. It is essentially a drug addiction, just with a different delivery mechanism.

I guess no different than those fans of MSNBC and to some extent CNN, eh?

The trustworthy news media train derailed when Walter Cronkite left.

Uncle "Walt" had a good bit of bias back in his day too.....

Yeah, this isn't anything new. It's a link with a UUID embedded in it and confirms that the email address is a real one and an active one. Unsubscribing using their link is a bad idea and has been a bad idea for *decades*. Just mark it as spam and move on. The potential for the link to contain malware is nothing new.

I'm not sure that I agree with sending them to the new prison in El Salvador. That place is inhumane. As much as I hate spammers, I do think we need to treat criminals with a degree of humanity.

Keeping the home directories in another tree has been a thing for a very long time. I was working with Xenix in the early 1990s with a second hard drive, and kept all the home directories on the external hard drive. When I needed to do an OS reinstall, it just a matter of mounting the external file system on the path. Same would apply if you're using NFS or any other network file system.

They are elected TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.

Ok...to do what is RIGHT....with definition of "right" being the will of the voter.

The politicians are not there to be the arbiters of right or wrong...they are there to represent the will of the people, whatever that may be.

Not everyone in the US wants to live in a densely packed urban city....

We're a free country over there and are not going to force a lifestyle on everyone here.

We do have some dense urban areas and hey, great for them that want to live like that.

A very significant portion of us here in the US do NOT want that type life....thankfully it is a BIG country with very diverse climates, habits, cultures where anyone can find where they want to live, how they want to live and how they want their state and local governments run.

One size does not fit all.....and trying to make it so will not fit well with the US.

We may be in an era when people unashamedly only vote for their own immediate interests.

Err what do you expect people to do?

This is just human nature....since the dawn of time...are you expecting sudden changes to this somehow?

I'm not the original poster, BUT...I would agree and I would NOT like to live in any densely packed "urban jungle".

I do not want to share walls with neighbors first and foremost.

That's something I did as a college student and early professional when I couldn't afford more than an apartment.

I don't want to hear my neighbors next door, nor do I want to bother them...I bought a really nice AV system and I like to exercise the decibel range on it from time to time.

I also relish having a back yard....fenced in for my dog....

I like having room in the back for my firewood stack that I use to run my large offset wood burning smoker, I'm a big BBQ fan....

I also have grills I like to run...lump charcoal on those....I like live fire cooking, I also like having room out back for having friends over to hang, cook and eat, crawfish boil parties, etc. (I live in Louisiana)...

I also like having room on my property to set up and run a nice sized veggie garden in growing season.

I have great neighbors, we talk, interacts and have a great life together....not sharing walls.

I like having a place to park my car and motorcycle off the street in a covered area.

I'm pretty close to everything I need...going back to office, commute is maybe 10-15 min.....multiple grocery stores minutes away, even a Costco.

When I shop I do it once a week....and usually way more than I'd care to try to carry on pubic transport, even if we had it here in a meaningful manner.

It would be too much to carry....and with summer just starting here...way too fucking hot and humid to be trying to haul so much stuff around.

Why is no government doing this ? Because the populist shits ( of left and right ) are doing what people want them to do, not what people need them to do TO SAVE THE FUCKING PLANET.

Err....in free countries, the politicians, elected BY THE PEOPLE are there to do the will of the PEOPLE.....that is their purpose.

They are not elected to tell people how to live. The elected officials are answerable to the people....not the other way around.

What distort? We're running Ubuntu LTS on workstations, and we keep the updates rolling, and have no significant issues. Generally when we want to do feature updates, we don't do in-place upgrades at all, we just build a new image and roll it out. We want complete control over new feature rollouts, including any major new upgrades of key software like LibreOffice.

And honestly, that's pretty much how we were managing Windows prior to beginning the migration. Updates in general are always a risky business, and I've seen upgrades in every OS I've worked with since Windows 3.1 go horribly awry. I've baked Windows systems, Linux systems, BSD systems, and even had to finally give up and reinstall my M1 Mac because the major release upgrade worked about 90%, but there was enough peculiar behavior that it just wasn't worth trying to track down.

In all cases in an enterprise environment, regardless of OS, you don't want feature updates, significant changes to functionality, or installs of major version of updates to software. When it comes to that, you're working in a lab environment, rolling out to a few users to test stability and interoperability, and then pushing them out to all the workstations. This isn't a Linux thing, this is just how an IT department stays sane and doesn't screw up the whole organization's workflow.

There are only a few circumstances I can imagine where LTS support over three or four years would even be desirable, and most of those are pretty niche use cases dealing with specialized equipment or legacy systems. In general, whether it's Linux, BSD, Windows or even MacOS, it's always better to do a full reinstall with the new OS. Heck, by the time Windows Server 2003 went mainstream, only madmen were doing in-place upgrades on domain controllers. The better solution was always to build a new DC and then decommission the old one.

All my worst upgrade disasters in any OS came from in-place upgrades just fucking everything up. At best, it left a lot of old cruft hanging around, at worst it rendered a system almost unusable, and it was usually a bit of both.

The way I'm rolling out Debian and Ubuntu at work these days is just working images. Sometimes there's some funky hardware that requires after I clone an image that needs some intervention, but generally it just works. New images are generated every six months, or when a new release has been tested, rinse and repeat. In the business world you don't give a crap about anything but quick up time, and I have a stack of spares in a closet that get refreshed regularly, and when something blows up, you grab one off the shelf and move on. New OS upgrade, new image.