See my other comment in this thread.

Wouldn’t those businesses that own their offices still prefer to sell or rent a property if the business will run without it? Artificially filling a property with employees to “make use of” the property rather than get money out of it is a good way to be left holding the bag when other companies ditch their properties to save money and crash the market anyway. To your point, the property is still the same asset whether employees are in it or not; it costs money. I guess I’m not really buying the notion that businesses are banding together to lose money for the greater good of the business real estate market. The same companies that won’t even invest in obvious long-term profitability plans? Really?

I still don’t understand how this talking point makes sense. So businesses are purposefully incurring costs to prop up an industry that they’re not involved in? A business will stop leasing a building and save money if they can, hell mine did.

I’m not a programmer or cheater or anything, but I think the answer is yes and no. Yes it could technically be done and even work as intended as long as the device is locked down to prevent the user from replacing the shipped kernel (which would be a bad thing for users). However, savvy people could (in theory) make custom kernels that lie to the kernel module, causing the module to report there is no cheating when there is. It’s my understanding that it’s close to the current situation with Windows and virtual machines and anticheat: you can cheat by running your game in a VM and then have that virtual hardware extract secret information or flip bits in the right spots. Most competitive games will refuse to run in a VM for this reason.

Exactly! EndeavourOS, my first Arch distro. It’s nice and easy to use, although Arch package updates are very different from say Debian. They don’t differentiate between security fixes and typo fixes so you’re either updating all the time like me or updating less frequently and being vulnerable. And then there’s also the issue of rarely broken bleeding edge packages; I had to pin a bunch to prevent upgrading from KDE 5 to 6 for a while.

It’s an advertisement. I don’t want to see ads in my software. Microsoft does this too but way worse.

Yep, a little text ad for Ubuntu premium services in the motd/welcome message and apt output if I recall. Here’s an article about it: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/10/ubuntu-pro-terminal-ad

Snap getting installed, ads when starting a shell. Basically the reasons I ditched Kubuntu.

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Never tried it outside of the USA, couldn’t tell ya.

Never heard of this. Sounds useful, except I’m really only buying something from them because I need it quickly most of the time. I don’t have the convenience of waiting for price drops like I do with Steam games haha. Thanks for sharing!

Best value? I’d say it’s A1!

Fakespot was kinda nice, whenever I looked at something on amazon I’d get a sidebar showing which reviews are real and summarizing them. It’s actually pretty useful. Definitely will not miss Pocket.

It’s not dead until I stop getting 10 year old outdated answers in my searches!

I use FreeFileSync and it syncs whatever files I point at it, not just videos and music. I installed it from the Play store.

You want them to get the help they need, that’s the opposite of conservative even without the support for programs.

fdupes to find duplicate files, freefilesync to back it up.

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I’ve never had issues like that on Kubuntu, Debian, or EndeavourOS. KDE is great and I love it.

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