There’s plenty non-staged attacks around Kharkiv to “disrupt” those negotiations.

Dad of 4 kids here, I would say use the system that let you concentrate more on the kid and less on tinkering the OS.

Dad of 3 here with 20something years on Linux already. This is the correct answer. Just go for win11 if that’s the simplest route for you, Linux will be there once you have the capacity to learn it. With a new baby you’ll be exhausted, you have a crapload (sometimes quite literally) new things to learn already and you just won’t have the time to do all the things you used to (as you already know). Making things more challenging for you by switching to something completely new just eats the very little time you have for yourself.

My work laptop has 11 running on it and it’s good enough. OS on that thing is not my call anyways, but at least on my workload it gets the job done.

Ukrainian people protesting against joining Russia and moving further away from EU was US operation to overthrow sitting president? Yeah, right.

US had nothing to do with it. If anything, Russia helped the whole thing to happen, or maybe even created it, by pushing against Ukrainian parliament and opinion of Ukrainian people.

Ours is Braun, but apparently that’s owned by US company too today. I don’t know about Bosch other than their power tools are a bit hit-or-miss today. Wilfa has pretty good reputation, but I don’t have personal experience and as far as I know they have pretty limited availability outside scandinavia + Finland.

did you forget the USSR existed and was a global superpower?

Obviously not. That’s what I’m referring to, they had all the means to prosper. Crapload of our everyday things on medicine, power technology, engineering in general and a lot of other things are built on top of what USSR came up with. And even after USSR fell there was still all the possibilities for Russian Federation to grow and prosper but their leadership chose not to. With their natural resources alone, when managed sensibly, they could absolutely dominate the US and seriously challenge China.

no nation on Earth can brainwash people into supporting an unpopular war

But they have brainwashed people making the war popular in the first place. Creating enemies out of thin air, like claiming Ukraine with their jewish president is a nazi regime, is something Russia (and USSR) have been doing for centuries. Instead of improving their own country they just create distrust and destruction.

racist screed about how Russians are some kind of backwards idiot nation.

Russian people (at least the ones I know) are generous and hospitable. But Russia as a nation is really idiotic as they could just have it all. Practical global market domination with oil, forestry and agriculture, a crapload of minerals to refine and (once) some of the smartest humans around to advance their technology but instead of that they chose basically violence on multiple fronts.

I highly doubt that there would be any revolting, but if there is it’s all created by current leadership in Russia. They have all the resources and at least used to have one of the most advanced scientists on multiple fronts, massive culture and every other possibility to be an absolute global superpower with very few who could’ve challenged that.

But instead they threw that all away, didn’t push their country forward to prosperity and instead let the selected few raid and rape the country. And now with the war in Ukraine, over million russians are either dead or wounded, economy crumbles and the whole empire is starting to fall.

Nothing has changed since second world war in there and seems like nothing will.

There’s no nazi regime and never has been one in Ukraine, unless you want to claim that natzi party actually ruled in Ukraine around 1940. No one, nazi or otherwise, was threatening Russia, Putin just has his obsession of the Soviet Union glory (whatever that means on him) and that’s caused immense suffering and continues to do so every day.

I hope they’re playing swan song soon on your television and radio once again.

Putin can quite easily help. Just pull all of your troops well behind 1991 borders, stop the nonsense with ‘areas voted to join Russia’ and fly to Hague. Ukraine will happily arrange elections for new president once that’s done.

Nothing has these ‘glyph’ lights, but software support for them seems to be pretty limited (not that I’ve looked too deep, all these modern phones are just boring). I hope they can come up with more controls for them, hardware seems to support quite complex patterns.

And setting permissions on directories get’s them inherited by newly created/added files in there, right?

No. They’re created based on ‘umask’ and changing directory permissions doesn’t automatically change permissions on underlying files (unless you set privileges recursively) nor new files in the directory.

So how can i remove the ability from my homedir to execute current and new files but keep the traverse permission?

For new files set your umask on what you want. By default it’s usually either 0002 or 0022. For existing files you can use find: find ~ -type f -exec echo chmod a-x {} \; (remove echo once you’ve confirmed that it does what you want).

big begginer distros

I wouldn’t say that Mint is a ‘beginner’ distro. Sure, it’s beginner friendly, but it’s equally friendly for everyone. I’ve been a linux user for “a while” and currently I prefer Mint on my workstations. It offers me everything I need from a distro in a neat package and as I’ve been a Debian user since Potato it’s a familiar environment.

But if OP want’s somehting “more linux-y” then good old Debian should do the trick. Basically anything with decently long history besides Ubuntu (in it’s current state) will do just fine.

I think what just_another_person means that Lenovo, specially at the beginning when they got the Think-brand from IBM years ago, tried to ride the brand and released sub-par laptops under ThinkPad -brand. At least some of the L-series were closer to what you could get from your local supermarket than actual work machines.

The brand-riding is now greatly less and the crappy ones generally aren’t the models you can find refurbished from 3rd party retailer. I’m currently using T495 and it was ~300€ from a sale couple years ago, now you apparently can get L13 for less than that. And of course, when you buy used units do your homework and only make deal with a reputable seller, there’s always an option that previous owner didn’t treat the thing nicely.

The generic answer for this is to get a refurbished thinkpad. Pretty much any T-series fit your needs and there’s plenty of pre-leased corporate machines around which are refurbished and often have even a some kind of warranty.

Are all the distros having the same GNU/Linux kernel

Yes. Different distros have different versions, patches and so on, but the underlying kernel is the same.

if I replace all the Arch userland files into Debian’s, the system will become Debian?

If by “userland” you mean files which your normal non-root user can touch, then no. There’s differences on how distributions build directory trees, file locations, binaries, versions and so on. You can of course replace all the files on the system and change distribution that way, a convenient way to do that is to use distros installer but technically speaking you can also replace them manually by hand (which I don’t recommend).

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The company was sold to Ford at 1999 and to Chinese holding company at 2010. And Renault owns Dacia and parts of Nissan and Mitsubishi. Citroen was owned by Peugeot and they merged with Fiat Chrysler automotive to Stellantis group who own a buttload of brands (Fiat, Jeep, Opel, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler…)

So if you really want to stick on purely European you need to look for MB, VW or BMW.

Over the past few posts I’ve set up a Windows VM with USB passthrough, and attempted to reverse-engineer the official drivers, As I was doing that, I also thought I’d message the vendor and ask them if they could share any specifications or docs regarding their protocol. To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips.

I’d recommend mint too, but testing stuff around with ventoy or just live-usb images is a good way to get to know what you like and what you don’t.

Official author don’t recommend it due to different semantics. But honestly for my own personal use case its fine for me.

I don’t recommend that either. If you get used to that ‘rm’ doesn’t actually remove files and then your alias is missing for whatever reason it’ll bite you in the rear at some point. And obviously the same hazard goes with a ton of other commands too.

I came to suggest HGST but apparently I’ve been living under a rock, it’s been sold to WD over a decade ago. And yes, I know Hitachi is not European. Brand name is still around and the drives seem to be pretty decent, but they (too) are owned by US company and manufactured in China/Thailand.