It goes well beyond bother.

In my opinion, the biggest issue is that software with a GPL licence is not permitted to be distributed without making the source code available, which Red Hat restricted to only paying customers, and in doing so added a licence restriction which is not permitted by the GPL.

They are now profiting off the work of every developer who ever contributed to the software they’re selling and none of those people are getting paid.

That’s a big question, but I don’t trust Red Hat after the stunts they’ve pulled over the years. Here’s a taste.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/

I’m still a “native” pendant and use Docker to bridge the gap.

I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I’ve been using it for 25 years.

I’m not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.

Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.

Never used OpenSUSE.

Black Friday is a marketing exercise to get you all riled up about the massive savings you will receive if you buy something RIGHT NOW.

Suffice to say that the actual bargains on the day are far and few between.

If you actively track pricing you’ll discover that the price goes up before the event, then drops to the same or slightly lower pricing on the day. The “bargain” is notional at best.

Then there are the “pre Black Friday” sales, and the “Cyber Monday” ones afterwards. It’s all just marketing.

If you want an actual bargain, find what you’re looking for, set a price watch on it and track it for as long as you have patience. When you’re ready, buy it from your preferred supplier and get them to price match the amazing price.

As far as refurbished goes, ask yourself what is the upside for the supplier to give away any bit of return on their spend to refurbish the item in the first place?

The word you’re looking for is “curmudgeon”.

What I was actually trying to do is encourage a discourse that furthered society, rather than rehash a trope such as the one found at the source of this thread.

I’m not confident that this will actually eventuate here, but I’m hopeful that someone will pleasantly surprise me.

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Not sure if the Linux NTFS driver supports read-write access. If it does, you should be able to remount it as rw. If not, there are rescue disks around that do have rw NTFS support.

You could just delete the entire partition and recreate it. You’d need to unmount it before you do.

• open source software that pays for contributions
• privacy laws that protect people against corporations
• living wage
• end of sexism and mysoginy
• global democracy

Boot from a livecd and figure out what is going on.

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Do you get output if you use that exact tail command without the grep pipe?

As it happens, every person is an influencer, regardless of followers (…) or content.

The people who are influenced, or said differently, the sphere of influence is dependant on random factors like content going viral when it unexpectedly gets liked and reposted by others.

If you’re asking what size of influence generates income, the answer depends on who is paying.

There are at least three legal ways to do this. CB radio, ISM frequencies and amateur radio. I say legal because the radio spectrum is heavily regulated because every transmitter affects everyone else to more or lesser extent.

You can buy CB or ISM band radios and get started.

Amateur radio is a better option in my opinion. There are many more frequencies to experiment with, people who can help and people to talk to.

Amateur licensing is different in each country, but an introductory licence is often no more than a weekend course and exam. I know of nine year olds who have done this. It’s not hard. No Morse code required either.

With such a licence in hand you can use things like JS8Call, CODEC2, Olivia, WSPR and hundreds of other protocols to communicate using just a radio and a computer.

Disclaimer: I’m a licensed amateur in Australia and have been since 2010. I hold an introductory licence, here it’s called a Foundation licence, and have been having an absolute blast with all that I can do.

If you have specific questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

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I read that you’re manually tagging them, so your process can be whatever you want to do.

For example, you can leave the images in their current folder structure and create a separate folder structure with symbolic links to an image, so in the character folder would be symbolic links to all the images like that. They also don’t have to be unique, an image can be in multiple categories.

Alternatively you can use a spreadsheet and generate lists there.

Finally there are plenty of photo album applications that allow you to tag images.

Gender reassignment surgery?

AI, also known as Assumed Intelligence

For the purpose of?

Venting? Warning? Praise?

Something else?

Bruce Perens is currently working on a new licensing model called Post Open requiring that business with sufficient revenue to pay up.

https://postopen.org/