more than half the households in my county do not have any high-speed wireline service available to them.

i can’t. unless i’m really, really tired. i prefer blankets… as in plural… with some bulk and weight to them.

i don’t think it’s ‘legally required’ but it is bound to be on documentation you provide to prove eligibility to work. may also be needed for one or more types of background checks an employer may require.

in the u.s. iirc usps gets your valid government id and home address when you rent a box at a post office, as does contacted private providers (e.g. ups store, etc) if you go that route. they are not ‘private’ or anonymous, just potentially more ‘secure’ in that your mail and parcels won’t be left outside your door or in an accessible and unsecured mailbox.

~ $1-2.5k usd, the cheapest having a whopping 4 gigabytes of storage.

i don’t deep dive into it enough to be a ‘nerd’, but i’ve been using some form or another since the early days of slack and debian.

even though it had shipped with windows, the installer would not detect my ssd for whatever reason.

bios probably defaulted to using a storage mode (like ‘raid’ or intel’s rst) that requires ‘f6’ drivers loaded during windows setup. solution would have been to either find those drivers or switch bios to ‘normal’ ahci mode.

and you could change him into something else. links the cat was mine.

$65 for 4tb? they’re almost certainly fake crap. just got done giving someone the bad news on some similarly-priced sd and ssd they bought off ebay.

https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm will verify real capacity in seconds.

captive portal detection, certificate status verification, and iirc server settings updates. yes. none of them are ‘absolutely required’ but they do exist to improve the reliability and secure operation of the program–and none are secret nasty spying telemetry. just turn those particular settings off as desired.

me neither. best is a 1070. don’t play newer ‘demanding’ games, nor do i have a system ‘worthy’ of a better card anyway.

there is mv3 version of ubo here:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

dunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i ‘need to’ look at a yt vid.

adguard’s free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable ‘acceptable ads’ and ignore offer to ‘upgrade’ to a paid version) is, too.

more like the garden of weeds is spreading out of control. they want passkeys and oauth so they can become the third-party gatekeeper for everything.

the want them tied to bio because your fingertip or face are harder to share with others, harder to fake, easier to track multiple accounts with, and are tied to real people and identities that can be linked with other data their databases all to make their data and targeted adverts more profitable.

i can’t afford to be choosy, it’s whatever i got. whatever was on sale. whatever generic or store brand is cheapest. never jelly, though, unless it’s homemade. always jam or preserves. right now it’s from aldi with bread from the regional gas station chain.

but i will not ever again use walmart ‘great value’ peanut butter. the ‘new’ recipe introduced in the last year (along with the new ‘smaller’ 16oz jar that is really just the same exact size jar as the 18oz jar, just filled less) is worse-than-dollar-store trash.

snapd is in debian repos so you can add it if you want, and then also integrate it into kde’s discover.

if you haven’t added the flathub repository to your new debian kde desktop install, discover will only show you packages from debian’s repositories that were automatically configured during installation… even if you’ve added the flatpak ‘backend’ from inside discover–flathub still has to be added to your sources (see step 3 in link above).

once you have multiple sources of an application (for instance, ‘vlc’), discover will add a ‘sources’ pulldown (top right, next to the ‘install’ button) where you can choose debian system package or flatpak (or snap, if configured).

which source you use is entirely up to you. on my own debian desktop, i usually stick with debs if it has what i’m looking for, as i’ve chosen debian and have accepted their pace at which new software is added. if i wanted ‘bleeding edge’ i would have installed something else entirely on it. but you can certainly go ‘all flatpak’ if you wanted to.

cookies are just text. they could literally contain an ip address or a hash or other identifier that refers to one.

spotify can’t directly obtain data from a linkedin cookie. but ad networks and other ‘third parties’ could provide ‘targeting’ or even identifying information to them.

use a different browser profile, or better–an entirely different browser–for vpn browsing.

we are blessed here to have the noise in the winter, too. more than three flakes of snow and there’s sure to be a legion of leaf blowers clearing off precious pavement in neighborhoods all over town. the guys that do it at 4-5am are the true treasures.

i am evaluating endless os (basic install, not the kitchen sink version) right now. i have bunch of soon-to-be obsolete desktops and laptops i need to find something other than windows to load. i am very impressed so far. it’s nearly everything i’m looking for for these systems and their future home users.

it’s nearly as ‘simple’ as a chromebook but is based on debian, so it can do more than chromeos. but because of the ostree base, verified flatpak applications, and simplified desktop and ui, it’s a lot harder for a typical home user to ‘break’ than windows.

the ‘full’ endless install with lots of extra programs and offline content might pick up a few fans, too. parts of my area still don’t have faster-than-dialup internet available.

i had been set on peppermint for the lowest spec’d systems (things like c2d 4gb/hdd) and cinnamint for the others (mostly 2nd-6th gen, 4-8gb, some have sata ssd), but endless might just end up on everything unless someone specifically requests different.

i sure hope they aren’t still the same specs (ancient celeron 2gb/32gb flash) for $1100+. but kinda suspect they might be.