The US is busy violating people’s rights and executing civil dissidents. They’ll get to it when they grow bored of terrorizing everyone.

I usually just roll my eyes when I see that corpospeak, but now I’m going to translate it as “payday.” Thanks!

Not a clue. Care to eli5?

Yes, I know. I’m not looking back at the entire timeline of history. I’m looking at the most recent example, because while the idea is not new, it is not an idea that lasts on its own; people wise up over time, which is why the idea gets rehashed by different figures at different points in history.

I mean, I’d prefer she get foisted by her own petard, and get deported and forgotten like all those she’s abused, but sure; we can start with impeachment.

It does predate them. They didn’t invent it, and I never said they did. I said their actions are the reason the US reveres wealth today, as in it’s the most contemporary set of events that have reinvigorated that well-practiced strategy.

If you’re looking for specific historical knowledge, as in citations, here you go:

https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america

https://youtu.be/LvmwGwnJf7c?t=598

Great, congrats. You are today’s biggest pedant. Here’s your prize.

I’ve never tried this myself, but 3-in-1 is a naptha-based oil mixture. I wonder if a valve oil for brass instruments would work. It’s usually thin, is petroleum based, and often has anti-corrosive compounds.

Another option could be common mineral oil.

And a final thought, if your tools are in a box, camphor tablets are supposed to be able to protect tools by interacting with the oxygen and depositing a protective layer as it sublimates.

I don’t know which of these are specifically Canadian, but you should be able to find non-American options.

Because it’s owned by billionaires, many of whom are in the files or have investments (read profiteering) in Israel.

The blockchain thing feels really icky to me, so while I’ll keep SimpleX as a plan C, my plan B is Meshtastic or Meshcore.

Why you should not use a platform owned by billionaires who are sympathetic to the government.

Emacs can do everything.

You also stepped into a faerie circle, so it’s been nice knowing you! (/j)

Sure, but why it exists today in the US is a direct result of the robber barons’ influence in the early 1900s. The core idea isn’t new, but this instance is.

It’s in my plan to switch, actually. The only reason I haven’t is because I need to make sure I know how to use certain Pipewire inputs with the window manager. I’ve seen that it does work, but I need to know how to do it myself before I make the switch.

Smithay, yes

I know you don’t necessarily mean it this way, but there’s a very interesting (and infuriating) history to why the US reveres the wealthy. The short version is that the ultra wealthy were pissed about the New Deal, so they used fundamentalist Christianity to tie the idea of wealth to holy favor from Yahweh.

We will have to overcome that idea if we hope to gain real class consciousness.

“Well yeah. Now it begins to affect me, and I care about me a lot!” —People who are suddenly mad, probably

It tracks your devices, and it’s proprietary software. Furthermore, from what I understand about the PC software, it runs at the kernel level (ring 0). I don’t believe it can do that with an Android or iPhone app, though.

Either way, if being tracked on a whim is within your threat model, you should assume this is spying on you. Most modern phones already have some kind of “Find My Device” tracking, so this seems like you’re just adding an extra pair of eyes.

On the other hand, if the newbie wants figure out how things work, starting with an atomic distribution doesn’t really sound like the easiest starting point. Is it though? Could be mistaken.

This is where I would agree with you, except to clarify and say, “It depends.” There’s plenty to figure out, and there’s a lot you can learn about when it comes to understanding what layer(s) a piece of software runs in. A driven newbie could find it rewarding to figure out this new paradigm. I once read a post from someone who installed Aurora on a grandparent’s laptop, and the grandparent ran with it and learned how to use everything themselves. It’s good to know who the end user is.

It also highlights some of the pitfalls and old practices of relying upon sudo without good reason. Lots of software only needs to run in local userspace, for example, and devs should really take into consideration what permissions they actually need, rather than choosing what’s easiest and expedient.

And then there’s rpm-ostree thing. I really need to read more about that, but that sounds like yet another layer in an already very tall cake.

It’s not so much another layer but dividing the existing cake into very distinct layers. You have an immutable system layer, you have an app layer for apps that you apply with rpm-ostree, and you have the user layer where your Distroboxes and Flatpaks live.

The benefit of this structure is that you can swap out the system layer at will. In theory, you could swap from a Gnome-based system to a Niri-based one, and rather than keeping all the Gnome apps and settings, you now just have the Niri ones. This ability to swap out the system layer makes it so system updates are much safer and less prone to conflicts, and they’re much more scalable for large deployments.

But do read more about it. There’s pros and cons to it, and then you can really get into the weeds with bootc…

Do I think a newbie needs to know this stuff from the get go? Probably not. I think that particularly since atomic distros have been around for several years now, the Flatpak ecosystem has grown quite a bit. There’s a lot already there that will work for most people. There’s a possibility they would need to layer something within their first year (I needed Java, for example), but it’s not likely they’d need it often if at all.

If they can’t help but tinker or theme, though, I would steer them away from atomic distros entirely. As interesting as they are, they’re geared towards duplicability, not bespoke modifications. My daily desktop driver is CachyOS, and I tinker with that, but the laptop with Bazzite is one I need to have maximum uptime.