I’m trying… I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd ringo.

It’s nice to be nice.

The flag looks a bit like a disgruntled goose.

I’m with mxroute.

Cheap but serviceable.

I was with them for 10 years.

They are great, it’s true.

The pricing just got egregious though.

Sure “some”, but not many.

For most people I think that other attributes become more desirable than physical beauty. The biological imperative to reproduce with the most physically attractive person you can find diminishes significantly.

This.

In this thread everyone is going to be single from 40 onwards apparently.

The objective ought to be more engagement, not more users.

It seems like everyone is here to have snarky little “I’m more right than you” arguments.

My opinion doesn’t mean much since it’s been forever since I tried any other distro but I’m surprised Debian isn’t on the beginners list.

it might be a bit too involved for an absolute beginner to configure to perfection

I’m not really sure what this means? It might be more accurate to say it’s not the best distro if you’d like to tinker with your desktop experience.

Notably, nothing on the beginners list ought to be run as a headless server, but debian is perfect for that job. The reason I’ve become so enamoured with debian over the years is that I can use it on my desktop and on servers and it’s the same system - everything is exactly where I’m used to it being.

I think this is a misconception.

In the 90s it may have been true - windows was focused on user experience on the desktop. Pre- internet, security just wasn’t relevant.

Even in that era though, Linux was running on servers in universities et cetera managing many users.

I guess this is where the reputation arose.

These days I don’t think either is inherently more secure than another in a general sense.

For specific uses cases one might be more “reliable” than another just because it’s used more and therefore has more people looking at it. For example, the vast majority of Web servers are in a Linux environment, but the vast majority of on premise email servers would be Windows.

What I’m saying is, in 2024 the general security of each platform is going to be comparable, and only a very small component in your chain of reliability. Like if you develop a threat model, and write policies, and maintain behaviours in practice, the underlying security provided by the environment isn’t really that relevant.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something but here in Australia there’s no benefit to not having a contract.

With our largest telco the contract is really just repayments on the phone. 24x monthly repayments is always the same price the phone is retailing for outright. You could cancel the sim and just keep up the phone repayments if you wanted.

100% this.

I was a volunteer treasurer at a youth homeless shelter.

Sadly, it’s not possible to evaluate someone’s intentions when they knock on your door and ask for a sandwich. They might truly just want a sandwich, or they might have other intentions entirely.

I think a better question is how matrix is better than XMPP. I don’t know much about it but I think the answer is “it isnt”.

Thunderbird is fine.

Maybe I have too much grey in my beard - I don’t care how modern it looks.

refuse.

That’s just not practically possible.

OP said they’re running a small business. It’s great that they want to fly the flag for FOSS, but they’re not in the business of promoting and advocating for FOSS. They still need to do the things they need to do.

Refusing to file your taxes on the grounds that the software provided is not open source is a great way to no longer be in business.

I’m sure it was just one flea.

This is about as witty as a box of rocks, just like it was when it was invented in 2007.

Well it’s made a lot of people feel satisfied that they’ve done their bit and had their say.

Ginger tea is my bag baby yeah.