This is what they will look like for me:

Can’t get smart fridge ads if I don’t get a smart fridge. taps forehead

They ended up like Ericson here in Sweden, dropped their handset business to focus on the network side, both Ericson and Nokia are quite successful on that side, especially since the hubub about alleged backdoors in Huawei mobile network equipment a few years back.

Sigh, please stop using that argument, it is an easy cop out, and you don’t actually help your cause by analyzing the real issue.

The real reason why people willingly use Windows is multifaceted and can be boiled down to a few points.

1. It is the defacto standard. If you are going to use a desktop/laptop computer you will probably use Windows, especially at work.
2. Most users know Windows in some capacity, this means that companies have an easier time finding staff than if they used something else, it wouldn’t be impossible but it would mean spending more time and money training the staff and causing them to be less productive for longer as they learn the system. This is slowly changing with the rise of web apps, chromebooks and Macs. But still, having IT support a fleet of Linux desktops/laptops when working in a non IT sector would be increadibly wasteful
3. Software, like it or not, Windows has a huge amount of proprietary software dominance, organizations LOVE proprietary software and dislike FOSS for one reason. Liability. This means that they get a number to call, email to contact, a person to yell at, they can deflect complaints and seem like they are a strong decisive company by taking legal action against an external party, and not have the buck stop with themselves.

I am an IT technician, this is what I have seen in the corporate world.

By talking about “brainwashing” you remove most of the actual information that could help you figure out how Linux could be better suited for the masses, and to be frank, using a word like “brainwashing” makes the Linux community seem a bit unhinged/cultish.

Focus on facts, then you can use them to change the actual issue.

I don’t believe they do like the current regime, why would they?

The government is demanding more and more stupid stuff for them to do, taking time and resources from more important tasks.

Creating a more dangerous social climate, causing less people to have enough money to buy their products while increasing cost of material.

You can call it bribes, I call it paying tribute to the king.

The guys know what is going on, they know that their companies futures are in the hands of a vindictive extreme narcissistic idiot of a king. They know that to be left alone they need to pay tribute to the king.

Is it a bribe or a protection racket? Yes, it is.

Has ubuntu started using DNF?

I mean, it is fair for the company leadership to decide on what is said through their channels.

I don’t really see any issues with them limiting what can be said when representing their company.

However, any coworker should be able to post, comment and like what they want on their own personal social media pages without it affecting their employment.

I remember various attempts by employers to force employees to represent the brand and company at all times, that is just idiotic.

I will only accept that my employer will have me say “no comment” when asked about company opinions or details in my free time.

I wish that people would stop using kids for their own gain.

Whenever I see people using kids like this, I want to reply “Put the child down, they are not a bat for your political gains.”

But as I don’t have Twatter, I don’t.

Fans and pumps don’t have any moving parts any longer?

I leave my work machine on constantly, but am very careful and shut down my home machine when I go to bed.

It just feels wrong to leave it powered up.

It isn’t, it is the least bad

If that is the GZ version, what would the BZ2 and XZ versions look like

That is a very good practice, it is better than my suggestion as it eliminates potential error when copy pasting

I have used dd a few times without destroying my disk, here is my simple recommendation to stay safe:

DON’T TYPE THE COMMAND DIRECTLY INTO THE TERMINAL!

What I mean is that you should open a text editor, type the dd command you want to run in the editor, let it sit for 5 min, go back to the text editor, find the OF path, doublecheck and verify that it is safe.

Correct misstakes, wait another 5 min and do the check again.

Once you are confident that the command is accurate, copy paste it into a terminal and run it.

IBMs tabulation machines were never required for the functions of the death camps, but they vastly increased the speed and efficiency with which the Nazis were able to find and murder people through the death camps.

There are clear differences in countries where the census database were poorly implemented and those that had a well established census database before the Nazis invaded, in how many people the Nazis were able to find and murder.

Until just now, I have always read it as Gork, Grok is more annoying to say.

This is the first time I ever heard the term, I didn’t know it was a thing, and given the source is Gork which is owned by a rich man with an agenda, I still don’t know if it is a thing or not.

Sadly, until three things happen, this is not likely to change.

1. LDAP for anything other than Windows needs to get way better, support for GPOs as extensively at Windows has is a requiernment.
2. Software, you can have the coolest OS in the world, but as long as it doesn’t have normal third party applications, it is not suitable for office or government work.
3. Technicians, you need to have knowledgable technicians to support the OS, without them there is no way any company or government would ever use it.

This is where the EU could step up and run an alternative.

Yeah, this is my impression as well.

There is a clear link on the store page to go to the warranty info, if OP didn’t read it or understood it before buying, this is on them, not Valve.