I guess that’s where I have a limited understanding of how Internet and maybe even exploits works: how would people even find my machine? There is little to no incentive, unlike with a corporation. They must know where my door is to even use the keys.

Can you just sort of do a brute force scan of all machines currently on the internet? Seems unlikely. In my mind, you can only access a machine if you have some idea about it’s whereabouts, either physically or digitally. But then again, I have no knowledge about these kinds of things.

Ah, I thought because of the very dense few characters it might be Chinese. Thanks, will update post.

Can someone explain why MacOS always seems to create _MACOSX folders in zips that we Linux/Windows users always delete anyway?

For me, a two party system seems really odd too. The flipside though, is having like 18 parties that all represent something, which takes way more cooperation and finding middle ground. This might seem good on paper, but can sometimes lead to indecisiveness or an unwillingness to take unpopular decisions. In the long run, that might cause a country to slowly fall behind on various topics due to a lack of vision.

Source: I’m a Dutch guy who has seen this happen in it’s own country.

So, I live in a European country where our right-wing politics would probably be considered “left” by Republican Americans.

I vote sort of central. Not too left, not too right. Even though I disagree with many things that our rightwinged politicians stand for, I can see some merit in them at times. The same with our left-leaning politicians.

When I see discussions among Americans, it seems to me either party just hates the other party, automatically calling them bigoted. And it comes across as a heavily divided country without any hope for reconciliation.

So 2 questions: Republicans: is there any democratic strength you wish your party would implement?

And democrats: is there any republican strength that you wish your party would implement?

I have the OG 46 mm (since its launch) and still charge it only about every 3 days.

Mostly use it to track steps, check time (obviously) and skip songs on my phone.

After typing this message, I realized how much crap I have to deal with in Mint (with my specific setup, not saying everyone has the same experience or that Mint is bad for everyone). I just installed PopOS. It absolutely handles different screen resolutions better out of the box. The tiling feature is interesting, but I’ll have to learn how to use it properly the coming weeks.

Overall, feels more sleek than Mint with the two hours I spent with it. Pop!_shop feels less cluttered with random repos than Mints Software manager. Where Mint out of the box feels like Windows 7 with a theme that sort of works but sort of feels unfinished and dated, PopOS feels more like OSX. This comes with less customizability on the looks, but atleast stuff that has a place on your screen looks right and has the right amount of padding.

Time will tell if this is the distro for me, or if I’ll be a distrohopper for life until I eventually land on Arch for the bragging rights.

I kinda lowkey wish there was a signature option so that we could proudly put our early 2000 forum signature banners on display.

My experience with Mint the last 8 weeks has been… mixed.

My biggesst issues:

-It handles two monitors with different resolutions poorly. I settled on accepting that one screen has just bigger UI now. There is an experimental setting that allows individual scaling per screen, but some apps don’t seem to use the systemwide scaling. It basically creates more problems than it solves.

-Dark mode is random. Some apps don’t support dark mode, but Mint still forces light fonts. Which makes those fonts unreadable on the light backgrounds.

-Window management is… weird with two monitors. If you have your screens setup in a certain way, windows will appear partly off screen,aking them undraggable or closable. Some windows you can just WIN+arrow but some popups don’t allow that.

Permissions can be a pain in the buttocks. Some flatpaks don’t give the right permissions, so you’ll be googling and sudo’ing your ass off at times. How can a flatpak for Arduino NOT give permissions to use USB? Dafuq?

Also, any permissions outside your home folders can (out of the box) only be changed through commandline. Which makes it a pain to install, for example, fonts, unless you dig through the 6 font managers that software manager shows. 2 of those font managers don’t have a gui, 1 can only install 1 font at a time, so after trying 3 programs you finally find one that works.

-Now that we talk about the software manager… It can be a pain to find the right stuff. Sometimes you search a program, and you’ll find 7 versions because thank FOSS and all it’s forks.

-Most documentation and questions are answered with using commandline. And sometimes, as a noob like me, you’ll damage more with those answers than you’ll solve.

I have had multiple OS wide hard freezes when unplugging USBs from an external USB hub. Only hard resetting the PC worked.

What I like so far:

-You can split the explorer in to two navigations. Super useful.

-you can fully customize your start menu and launch bar.

-the backup function is amazing

-most steam games work great

-it starts up rather quick

-it doesn’t track me like Windows does.

Might try Pop OS soon, although I also accept that switching an OS can just take time to get used to. Took me a few months to get accustomed to OSX years ago when I had a Mac Mini for 6 years.

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I’ve been usung mint for about a month now.

I want to get rid of Windows, but I don’t want to spend my day sudo-ing my ass off.

Give me a gui for everything and doubleclick installers, and a release that is stable above all else.

I’m open to suggestions though! So shoot away which distro I should be using :)

My nephew uses arch btw.

I’d argue for not stressing too much about practices when you are a beginner. Learning to code is hard enough already. At first, it’s just important to start creating.

Software practices are important. But just get code working at all is, as a beginner, more important.

Secretly plays Shotgun King