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I'm assuming that they understood that, because they said (I assume pejoratively) that they sounded like a "can't be racist against white people" leftist. If they had failed to notice the sarcasm, they would be taking the sarcasm at face value and seeing a pro-male, "all lives matter" type take

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Kevin Mitnick has died at age 59.

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A big part of it for me is that in my head he's this 18-year-old idiot who's stolen my credit card information from me personally, even though he was 20 years older than me and that never happened. It's who he was in the hacker legendarium, you know?

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Tips for a new Linux user

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A good refinement of this advice is to keep a Q&A sheet in your Dropbox or in Google Sheets or something, because writing down your answers that you discover can help you remember them, and can provide a backup plan in case you forget the answer and need it later, and can remind you to circle back to a question later when your toolkit is bigger.

Edit: also, it helps manage your backlog - you can make a rule like "if the unanswered count ever gets to ten, I'll sit down with an experienced user and try to clear them all"

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Reddit users lost?

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It looks different for me - I didn't want to go back, so I just installed Reddit Enhancement Suite and the old.reddit redirect and disabled my ad blockers for it, and sure enough it looks like garbage now so it's easy to remember not to use it.

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