God sounds like a jerk. It’s freezing out there.

You can pick up malware from a website or an advert on a website. You can pick it up by a friend bringing an infected device and attaching it to your home network. You can pick it up from a phishing link or attachment. You can run an IoT device that downloads malware and propagates it to other machines on your network. You can install a dodgy app on your phone. You can run an application that has a chain of dependencies down to some obscure backdoored library (xz). You can run software that downloads automatic updates and whose update server was compromised (Notepad++) or whose signing certificate was compromised. You can be the victim of a sophisticated supply chain attack (SolarWinds was corporate but it could happen to any complex software). Those are just the first few that spring to mind. And you can pick it up because someone else in your family did any one of these things or many others.

Malware isn’t just for people who do obviously dangerous things like downloading cracks and keygens. There are many vectors for it to get in.

Or I get an incurable cancer.

So you are planning to upgrade?

No one’s going to give up anti-Israel ideology while they’re still genociding, and Israel has no plans to stop that. And no one’s giving up anti-USA or anti-Israel ideology because they carpet bombed your cities. Being bombed doesn’t usually endear people to the bomber.

Everyone outside the USA.

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Don’t assume it was a mistake.

Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’

Also, I think someone coming to power who is willing to negotiate (rather than waiting to be air-struck and replaced) is more likely than the collapse of central authority.

The Iranian government was in the middle of negotiations and the news on Friday was that a peace deal was imminent. Then the USA and Israel started bombing during their own peace negotiations.

Prior to that Iran negotiated and signed (in 2015) an agreement with the USA (under Obama) to limit their nuclear development. Trump tore that agreement up, slapped sanctions on Iran, then killed one of their most senior military leaders.

The problem isn’t Iran being unwilling to negotiate. It’s the USA and Israel negotiating in bad faith, then ignoring their own agreements and attacking Iran anyway.

And the USA routinely tears up its treaties with other countries too. Anyone who negotiates in good faith with the USA and expects them to keep their end of the bargain is a fool.

1. Grab all the Venezuelan oil first to protect the USA from rising oil prices at home, then
2. fuck up the middle east, putting prices through the roof and disrupting oil supply to China and Europe, and
3. wait for everyone to come begging for American and Russian oil?

Take this with a huge pinch of salt. I’m just playing along here. I don’t know whether this is at all plausible.

At the cost of a few thousand American peasants’ lives and one cancelled midterm election. It’s a sacrifice Trump’s prepared to make.

Oh his fucking eyebrow. Why not just hold up a sign saying “PUNCH ME”?

Totally normal, to fire all your good investigators because they were investigating the President’s many crimes, and find you’re left with no good investigators.

I’d rather pay a taxi driver.

Of course it can be done. But governments don’t want privacy-preserving verification. They want total surveillance made easy for them.

Parsi also shared video of a distraught woman who described an apparent so-called “double-tap” strike, a common tactic used by the US, Israel, and other militaries in which an initial bombing is followed up with a second one in a bid to kill and injure survivors and first responders.

“They killed everyone,” the woman said of the attackers. “They dropped the first bomb, then when people went to help, they dropped another bomb.”

Bombing schools, gymnasiums, hospitals, carpet bombing cities… Mark Carney do you still support this?

Its OK, I didn’t find your comment rude, I just felt like I didn’t understand. Mint is very easy and does tend to just work. It’s a good choice, the only drawback really being that its kernel and some of its packages are not always the latest. But most people won’t notice or care about that. I use Mint among other distros on some of my machines.

I agree with your reasoning: switch your own machine to Linux and get to know it. Leave your parents using what they find easiest, if they’re not technically inclined. Pushing someone to use something because you think it’s a good idea never works if they aren’t enthusiastic too. You just end up receiving frustrated messages holding you responsible for every little thing the machine does that they don’t like. Better not to insert yourself into the picture.

Should have used a more concentrated embalming fluid.

The latest figure I saw was 153 girls killed in that one strike on an elementary school.

GrapheneOS has some services of its own that improve location speed and accuracy when enabled: SUPL and PSDS. They’re both implemented in ways that try to preserve privacy. See here for more info:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections

With these enabled, it’s usually quick to get your precise location.

String it out until the midterms, then cancel them.