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any distro recommendations for privacy? (for real)

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What makes you think Google knows who you are? Just because it recommends videos you're interested? Have you considered your interests might be average?

If you're not logged in, using a system where you never logged in, connecting through Tor as you said google has no way of tracking you, so either one of those is a lie or you think it's tracking you when it isn't.

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Do you ever reminisce about an old phone you had in the past?

Nokia N9, it was my first smartphone, it ran Linux, as in you could run sudo apt install in it and yes, sudo worked and you could get root access from factory. It was very sturdy, keyboard did some vibrations when you pressed so you got some tactile feedback which was invaluable in convincing me to use a phone with no buttons, it had gesture navigation which took years to arrive in other phones, plus some games I never got to finish and now I can't play anymore.

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'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam

I personally always find it weird that killing hundreds of people is okay but nudity requires scrutiny.

That being said this derives from stripe threatening Valve in the near past (which is why their previous games didn't face this scrutiny). This is a known thing that any game developer, especially one developing mature content, should know. And the content in that game is definitely mature, if the screenshots of the game were shared without context I would think it's one of those sex simulators, which I get this is not and those are just small parts of the bigger picture of the game, but that's just like saying "this chocolate bar shouldn't need to be classified as containing peanuts, it only has 1 peanut".

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One of my bucket list things is to try a food item, listen to an album and read a book from every country in the world. Any recommendations?

I lived in several places, I'll try to give some, they're not the most authentic, or the best by any objective measure, but are things that exemplify very well my experience. I've added savory and sweet entries for each, and also a movie if you want to (to compensate for the fact that I don't know many books from most of them, so most countries are just the only book I could think of)

Argentina:

  • Food (savory): If you can find them, Sandwich de miga are great, but they're very hard to find outside of Argentina, many places say they sell them but they sell just a crustless sandwich. You might have better luck with Empanadas
  • Food (sweet): I you're okay with making them, Bombon de Avena are one of my favorite treats, and they're very easy to make. I doubt you'll find anywhere that sells them, though, so I'll leave another option Alfajor
  • Album: This one is difficult, I'm going to have to go with Poncho Al Viento from Soledad, but also anything from Los Chalchaleros would be great. I tried to go with Folklore because everyone knows about Tango and someone had already mentioned Sui Generis before.
  • Book: La autopista del sur, it's not particularly good but it's the only one I could think of
  • Movie: 9 Reinas, one of my favorite movies, it's a heist movie about stealing some post stamps.

Brazil:

  • Food (savory): There are many options here, I thought on going very specific with Nord eastern food, but you might have difficulty finding it. Instead I'll go with Coixinha, I think it's the ultimate Brazilian snack, for a full meal Brazilians prefer rice and black beans, but that's also found in multiple other cultures, whereas the Coixinha, specially the one of Frango Catupiry, is very unique.
  • Food (sweet): I'm tempted to say Brigadeiro, even though I find it extremely sweet it's the default Brazilian sweet snack. However I'll go with the close second Beijinho which is similar except coconut flavored instead of chocolate, and IMO much much less cloying.
  • Album: uff, this is hard, I wanna say Construção by Chico Buarque, but I feel you're likely to have been recommended it in the past. I'm going to go with a very weird choice here and recommend Transpiração Continua Prolongada from Charlie Brown Jr, it's very different from what people think as Brazilian music and everyone who was in Brazil in the 2000s knows them.
  • Book: Os Sete from Andre Vianco, most of the Brazilian books I had to read were for school and they're old so not a good read, plus they're social critics that if you don't know the culture can be missed. Os sete is a Vampire story, it's the Interview with the Vampire from Brazil. It's not great, but it's enjoyable.
  • Movie: Tropa de elite, many people might recommend Cidade de Deus which is also very good, but I feel Tropa de Elite is better to make outsiders understand the state of things.

Ireland:

  • Food (savory): Guiness Stew, although mostly a touristy dish I love it, sided with some garlic mashed potatoes it's a great food for a good winter.
  • Food (sweet): I honestly can't think of any Irish sweets besides adding Bailey to some other sweet.
  • Album: Very cliche, but when I think of Ireland the first thing that pops to mind is The Dubliners.
  • Book: I'm gonna go with Dracula, if you haven't read it give it a go, try to forget he's a vampire, as that makes the book a lot more enjoyable.
  • Movie: Drawing a blank here too, but since you didn't asked for movies and this is an extra category I thought the rest was worth including.

I skipped Italy as I wouldn't have book recommendation and whichever food I was going to recommend it's likely you have had it or are not able to. Similarly for Spain plus the added juggling of whether to recommend Spanish or Catalan things.

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I'm planning to build a Linux gaming PC. Any suggestions?

Some tips for you:

  • Check game compatibility using https://www.protondb.com/ this will let you know if the games you want to play run on Linux and how well they do so

  • Buy an AMD GPU, support for Linux is great on them, miles ahead of nVidia. If you already had an nVidia card it's usable, but if you're starting fresh 100% AMD.

  • Don't fret too much on the distro of choice, not sure how familiar you are with Linux but because of the questions I assume not much. If this machine will also be used as a normal computer prefer a general use distro (my recommendation would be Mint), if you'll plug it on the TV and use it as a console prefer a gaming distro (I've heard good stuff about Bazzite but never used it myself). You can have / and /home be different partitions, this means that you can distro hop and maintain your games, saves, and most configs from one distro to the other, or even when reinstalling the system, I strongly recommend people to do that.

  • Linux is not windows, things are done differently and that's okay. A lot of the frustration of new users comes from trying to do things the windows way and failing miserably, e.g. trying to install programs/drivers by navigating to a random web page and downloading a binary.

Good luck, and ask any more questions you might have.

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I'm planning to build a Linux gaming PC. Any suggestions?

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Long story short, pacman doesn't touch config files you have touched, instead it creates a .pacnew file. This means that if something has a config change but you touched that config it won't get updated, so if the new config is required or running a new version of the thing with an old config causes issues you will experience those issues. In Arch systems you're expected to know about pacnew/pacsave files and how they work. When some program has issues with old configs it can affect Arch users that don't track their configs, if you don't touch the configs you're safe, but new users are likely to touch random configs for many reasons and end up with things that won't get updated and can possibly cause issues.

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That's good, didn't knew that but that's a very smart move from them. Even so, that's IF they know about that, also it only fixes the immediate issue of broken system, not the fact that you need to know what to do to not break it.

Cachy works great, it's essentially a preconfigured Arch, but Arch issues for new users was never the installation process.

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I'm very weary of recommending Arch distros to new users, Arch expects you to read the news and breaks stuff. 99% of the time for experienced users it's fine, but new users tend to touch random configs when exploring which prevents pacman from upgrading them, and they won't read the news to know about possible issues.

And before someone says Cachy is not Arch, it is, for this purpose it is, it suffers from the same thing by reason of being a rolling release that uses the same package manager. Just because YOU haven't experienced a problem doesn't mean it's not there, I also have never experienced a similar problem with over a decade of Arch as my main distro, but it happens and you have to be blind to say otherwise.

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Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits

I love how every time I read a "Critical" vulnerability in Linux it's essentially "The user must leave their computer completely unlocked in an accessible area for a long period of time. Also he needs this very specific combination of programs running in these specific versions. Ah, and the planets have to be aligned for it to work. If all of these happen, an attacker might glimpse at your desktop wallpaper, so definitely critical".

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What is your unpopular flim opinion

Terminator is better than Terminator 2, and as cool as it is Terminator 2 should never have been made (or should have a different script).

I know the mob is raising the pitchfork, but hear me out, there are two main ways time travel can solve the grandparent paradox, these are Singular Timeline (i.e. something will prevent you from killing your grandfather) or Multiple Timeline (you kill him but in doing so you created an alternate timeline). Terminator 2 is clearly a MT model, because they delay the rise of Skynet, but Terminator is a ST movie. The way you can understand it's an ST is because the cause-consequences form a perfect cycle (which couldn't happen on an MT story), i.e. Reese goes back to save Sarah -> Reese impregnates Sarah and teaches her how to defend herself from Terminators and avoid Skynet -> Sarah gives birth to and teaches John -> John uses the knowledge to start a resistance -> The resistance is so strong that Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah -> Reese goes back to save Sarah...

The awesome thing about Terminator is how you only realise this at the end of the Movie, that nothing they did mattered, because that's what happened before, the timeline is fixed, humanity will suffer but they'll win eventually.

If Terminator was a MT then the cycle breaks, i.e. there needs to be a beginning, a first time around when the original timeline didn't had any time travelers. How did that timeline looked like? John couldn't exist, which means that sending a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah was not possible, Reese couldn't have gone back without the Terminator technology, which they wouldn't have unless the resistance was winning, and if they are winning without John, the Terminator must have gone back to kill someone else and when Reese went back he accidentally found Sarah, impregnated her and coincidentally made a better commander for the resistance which accidentally and created a perfect loop so that next time he would be sent back and meet Sarah because she was the target (what are the odds of that). Then why is the movie not about this? Why is the movie about the Nth loop after the timeline was changed? The reason is that Terminator was thought as a ST movie, but when they wanted to write a sequel they for some reason decided to allow changes in the timeline which broke the first movie.