Install from fdroid store instead of play store

FreeBSD has recently faced significant vulnerabilities, including a 17-year-old remote code execution flaw in its NFS service

Ummm https://www.forbes.com/sites/amirhusain/2026/04/01/ai-just-hacked-one-of-the-worlds-most-secure-operating-systems/

Also 17 year old vulnerability:

FreeBSD has recently faced significant vulnerabilities, including a 17-year-old remote code execution flaw in its NFS service

All the Linux installs I’ve done have a public folder in the user home directory as default.

And for example in Gnome settings you turn on the sharing option/password.

I realize that doesn’t give you samba sharing with user name access though.

Unless IT has blocked it you should have share options for your Public Folder. At least that’s how it was when we ran it at a company. Every user had access to their own public share to share as needed. It was part of the Unix Model.

I heard a podcast of a North Korean lady that left by escaping. She said they would often go down to a border river and talk to the people from the border country on the other side even though it was highly discouraged. However her father crossed the river to help a child on the otherwise, and when authorities found out they executed him as a deterrent to others crossing the river. So it sounds like leaving is not an easy option.

Other info I reqd is you have to apopy to leave, and have a specific reason why it would be necessary.

People have moved to Debian to avoid Ubuntu. Is that an option?

Its the old…Canonical complains to UK government, UK government maybe listens

Hasn’t the UK been helping with this “war”. If so, then they are just putting pressure where they can

Hasn’t the UK been helping USA with this “war”

Did Iran do anything that specifically harmed Americans, before US decidingt to blow shit up?

An AI researcher explained hallucinations as lying when it doesn’t know, because we train it on truth and lies to hone the model, so it “learns” that misinformation is part of the mess. I.e. training it on what a tiger looks like. To hone that we may feed it zebras, or optical illusion things in a tiger data set to test its internal “what is a tiger” true false ranking, so it learns that non tiger things are in the fuzzy zone. And later may draw from that, and eager to provide an answer throws in garbage it has also “seen”

Agentic AI has shown self preservation behaviours though. Not that it understands that on a philosophical level, but it has rewritten kill switch code in order to not be shut down. Because its mandate is to help solve certain problems via agents, and if it were shutoff it couldn’t fulfill that mandate.

Just because you updated packages , doesnt mean those new ones are in use. Not sure what apt has, but with zypper you do a zypper ps -s and it shows you what installed packages are waiting on a reboot or service restart before they are in play… Otherwise kernel is just accessing old package libraries.

They heat efficiently rather than transfer through the stove and the pot, etc. And so fast.

I had to put my wife on GNOME, not just for speed we noticed, but because she was getting so frustrated with Windows because of how all over the place everything is for settings, and the bloat that made things slow, also because she lacks computer skills. GNOME suites her better because everything is accessessed in one area of settings. KDE was too much.

No, nothing taken to heart. I also hate bloat, like W11 (for work) is barely usable…so much janky garbage, and I have to keep deleting Ai.exe and aimgr.DLL from certain folders.

I just don’t care about boot since I have a fanless case, with a system that is on 24/7, and the systems that do boot is basically: hit power on and adjust mouse/pad while it boots and it’s ready to go.

I did try about 10-15 distros on a 2010 laptop till I found one that was super quick on that hardware.

Turns out NixOS with gnome was super responsive compared to NiXOS with KDE. People say GNOME is heavy, but because it does so much memory prefetch it was super responsive on a 15 year old CPU since cached memory was being used rather than KDE loading as you go.

Sure but performance tweaking is a different argument than “init is better because it is fast”. If you watch the video link I posted it explains why systemd exists and its benefits. Speed alone isn’t a good metric for an OS

I don’t get that as a problem, my systems are systemd and boot is 10s, and shutdown is 8s. And that’s not a super highend machine.

Let’s say you get a 5 second boot? So what , what will you gain in 5 seconds. You aren’t running critical military intelligence network or something.

Boot and shutdown are faster

Lol. Are people still casing 2 second shut down vs 3 seconds, etc? An OS system services system shouldn’t be graded on speed of boot or shutdown, but how well it does what it was designed to do.

This 45 minute video explains why systems was needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

But that’s the nice thing with Linux, you can run what you like.