As someone working in the Microsoft ecosystem at an MSP, we seriously wonder what the fuck goes on over there. We’re supposed to defend everything y’all do which is getting really hard to justify without sounding like idiots.

I’m just gonna go right out and say it.

The ACA is a center right to right leaning policy. It’s a middle ground between Medicare for All and the disaster that privatized healthcare was before the ACA.

Republicans are in a lose-lose position because they cornered themselves into rabidly opposing anything Obama did and calling it communism. Obama tried to appeal to moderates and republicans by making the ACA an incredibly bipartisan approach to healthcare. The republicans didn’t want to let Obama have a win so the party threw everything they could behind blocking it in the hopes that when they won next they would copy it and change a few minor things and pass it off as some completely new idea nobody had ever considered.

Notice that when Trump was in office, the proposed healthcare bill (AHCA) the republicans put together was just a slightly tweak of the ACA. Then they canned it when it was wildly unpopular, shrugged and moved on. Now the doublespeak is “Obamacare was bad but it would’ve been worse if it hadn’t been for me and we’re gonna fix it, but don’t ask me how yet.”

And that’s the best they’ve come up with in the 14 years since the ACA was passed.

It could not be simpler.

My grandfather in law kept getting scammed and installing viruses while on Windows. I installed Linux Mint on his desktop last year, setup automatic updates, created a non admin account for him, changed a few easy configurations to hide the technical stuff that appears when you turn the computer on, and he fucking loves it.

Keep in mind getting this man to login to Netflix on his TV is a minimum 30 minute long phone call. One time, we had to send people to check on him because his phone was off for 3 days straight; he put it on airplane mode and couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.

He has had 0, yes, exactly 0, problems with his computer since I installed Linux Mint. It’s faster, to point where he noticed and commented on it, and he finds it easier to use than Windows, which has been on every computer he has ever owned.

He brags to anyone who will give him the time of day how much he loves it.

I promise you, it’s really that easy.

These are the same people who think deregulating everything will make us safer

seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems

That’s exactly why he’s saying it. It’s an international race to the bottom.

Happened to me because I had an account on a crypto exchange. The attacker went in to my phone carrier’s store, likely with a fake ID, convinced the store they were me, then got a new SIM card and reset my password on everything they could with it. They logged in to my crypto exchange mere minutes after they got the SIM, saw the $0.03 in my account, and logged out.

Free as in freedom malware

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Weirdly I’m getting BSD vibes, even leaning a little towards MacOS.

It only runs in this exact docker container

well we’re sure as shit not in the business of shipping docker containers

Out of curiosity, what perfect wonderland operating system are you using then?

NVIDIA rep created an account to make this post

AMD rep was already an active member of the community

Unsurprising, yet it still speaks volumes.

A cop told me after my car was totaled that he called the local tow truck, and the cost was covered by the city.

Imagine my surprise when I went to the tow yard a couple days later and they handed me my $800 bill.

It’s fantastic! It’s worth it for Budgie alone. There are some minor comforts I miss from large distros like Debian, but very rarely does it ever prove to be a problem I can’t get around.

I’ve had a few applications I wanted to use where it was only distributed for Ubuntu and/or Fedora, so I’m stuck either compiling from source or figuring out an alternative, but it’s only happened a few times. Everything else about it is very straightforward and I’d compare the ease of use to a very small step above Ubuntu.

Budgie isn’t a fraction as customizable as KDE is, but out of the box it’s very visually appealing so as long as you like the way it looks in screenshots it shouldn’t bother you.

Solus Linux with the Budgie Desktop