Such a fascinating perspective and insight. Hopefully you won't get modded down (although I also hope you won't get modded up!) For many years I've had questions about certain historical events and you have provided some explanation.

Well said. Fear is the primary tool of the far right that's taken hold in America. It's a feedback loop that preys on human nature. Another tool extremists use is appealing to pride. Undeniably evil.

As you say, we do have some knowledge of how this is all going to end. I don't look forward to it, I don't condone the actions that will lead to it, but I can't allow myself to panic or give in to fear or despair either. I do what I can to encourage others to make better choices and see the truth about what is happening. I used to wonder how so many people couldn't see what the Nazi's were doing as they solidified their power. But now I do understand a bit as I talk to fairly sane, otherwise rational people who believe trump is doing God's work. Fascinating psychology if it wasn't so pernicious.

There are definitely scary times ahead and many will yet panic.

Funny how I get modded down around here for telling the truth that Trump sees himself as king, and acts as one, and his supporters love it.

I value my rights and freedoms. Do you? Do you equally value the rights and freedoms of those you disagree with?

You can also look to what happened in North Carolina as a GOP recipe across the US. The governor is a Democrat which reflects the fact that the majority of voters in the state lean a bit that way, but despite this, the GOP gerrymandered all the districts guaranteeing themselves control of the state legislature in perpetuity. They also at the same time took many of the governor's powers away (so much for the Unitary Executive Theory that the GOP claims to espouse), and turned the state supreme court into a fully partisan body that, thanks again to gerrymandering, they will continue to control. At the same time active voter suppression is continuing in areas likely to vote democrat. This pattern is playing out in other states across the US. But it's all good because these poor people really aren't smart enough to vote anyway. It's really for their own good.

But it's not blessed by the king. I suppose you also just read the normal Bible too, instead of the official guilded-cover trump bible. And you probably own godless bitcoins too, rather than those blessed trump coins.

The fact that you and many others now see this as normal behavior is definitely worrisome. Presidents used to go to great lengths to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest and hold their business interests at arms length. Now corruption is totally fine. A little insider trading is just fine now too.

He's referring to other countries like the US where the patent is still valid and will be for some years yet. Obviously in Canada, the patent no longer exists so there's nothing to buy or sell.

No I don't, sorry.

Ubuntu LTS is only five years, and Linux Mint tracks that. I wouldn't really recommend RHEL or Alma or Rocky to a new user for a desktop distribution, and wouldn't generally use it myself. I can't comment on OpenSUSE.

I use Fedora, but that requires an annual upgrade, which isn't really that difficult to do, but it's not something a new user would find easy to do. Certainly the people I know that I've installed Linux for wouldn't.

As to Red Hat being a traumatized company, well they are now very successful and profitable. It's time for them to get over the trauma. Besides, although they put in a lot of work and polish, their product is based largely on the work of others, so they are hardly in a position to accuse Oracle of playing unfairly by using GPL'd code they worked on.

No, you misread what I wrote. "Any version" refers to the version of the GPL. GPLv2, GPLv3, or whatever. Nothing to do with the version of the software package.

Put another way, whether the code in question is GPLv2 or GPLv3, the right to redistribute the source code is that same.

Poor choice of words on my part. Sorry about that.

Sure. No one says they have to make their SPRMs or github repo for the spec files publicly-accessible. Where they crossed the line, though, is in contractually preventing their clients from being able to exercise their rights under the terms of the GPL. As a Red Hat customer, you can go download the SRPMs just fine, but under the terms of your contract with Red Hat, if you distribute those SRPMs to anyone else, that is grounds for termination of the support contract. This is at odds with any version of the GPL, which applies to a lot of Red Hat's packages. This is the fundamental problem and it's been going on for decades. Only recently Red Hat began to talk more tough about it, even threatening some clients with compliance audits.

All that said, I think AlmaLinux's approach is the best one for the "clones." No damage, just community value added.

There are lots of different kinds of cables for different application. What you say is true, but it doesn't necessarily trivially apply in all circumstances. For example the undersea cables have limits. The person being interviewed in the article specialized in undersea cables, from what I can tell. I don't think you can simply just jack up the voltage and magically get more capacity through an existing undersea line.

As others stated, traditional overhead wires also have their limits. and are designed for specific voltages and currents before you run into problems with insulators, discharges, etc.

Ublock origin not working again? Haven't noticed that here. Html-load
Com malware is completely blocked.

Like I said you can keep on buying it. No skin off my back.

It's interesting. Things like table of contents are to me much harder in office than libre office. Especially if you didn't start out doing things right. At least it was like that last time I was asked to help someone set up a table of contents in office for an existing document. With LO by default styles are associated with table of contents so it's really easy to with the stylist to set up the document for table of contents. Office last I used it seemed to apply heading styles without setting the data points for tables of contents or indexes. Really surprised me.

Anyway if you don't want to learn a slightly different way to do things that's totally fine.