I’ve got a private chat with a small group of friends. That’s my primary social media. We share news and discuss ideas.

Am I the only one on here using Budgie. I just feel more comfortable with the workflow using Budgie.

Says I’m 10%. BMI says I’m 22.5. I think that’s a big difference? I’m very tall, thin, but have solid muscle and work out about two hours per day.

This is not new and it has previously been used against anti-abortion activists, tracking locations and even being used to record religious confessions. People on both sides of the abortion issue can oppose this type of monitoring.

If you look at early votes, Republicans are doing better in every close state other than Pennsylvania. So assuming there’s a correlation with party affiliation, the polls are probably correct. If Harris is going to pull this off, she needs to address the ground game in these pivotal states.

For me it was the opposite. Windows required too much support. It didn’t do what they wanted it to do and bad updates inevitably caused problems. With Solus Linux everything became easier for them.

What do you most like? Thoughts on why others should give it a shot?

IMO, it is going to come down to how much the Republicans get people to vote early. The last election went bad for them because people didn’t trust voting by mail and there’s always a contingent of people who intend to vote on election day but don’t make it for one reason or another. Political junkies should also watch the weather forecast in close states. Bad weather probably favors Democrats in this election. This is a change from the 80’s and 90’s when Democrats were less likely to show-up during bad weather.

Does anyone consider Tumbleweed stable?

Would it be much of an issue if we insisted presidential powers were limited to what they were when the Constitution came into force? Today’s presidents (both parties) greatly exceed the powers of Washington and Jefferson.

Correct.

Can confirm. Works on every distro I’ve tried.

As far as I know, there are only two independent rolling distros that are stable: Void & Solus. Solus comes out of the box ready-to-go with little-to-no tinkering, with a good aesthetic appeal. I like rolling distros because there’s no retiring my version. I keep it updated and it keeps getting updates. Support for life.

There’s been a few times I built from source but flatpak has been quite the blessing. Solus is also looking for more software maintainers, so if there’s something not in their software center now that you want, it could be a good opportunity to get involved.

Budgie 11 should be coming out soon and is supposed to be full Wayland. Arch is nice if you can stay up on your updates and can tinker if things don’t work right.

There’s self-hosting that’s low risk but does remove some convenience. For example, I use a offline password manager. I keep a Veracrypt container on my computer that hosts that and a few other important files. When I make enough updates, I’ll throw a copy into Dropbox so I can save access it elsewhere. The disadvantage is that I cannot update the primary version from one of those other devices but, for me, that’s not really an issue.