Exactly this. The goal of requiring explicit cookie consent/refusal is admirable, but the implementation of cookie banners is both useless and terrible. We already have a way to communicate to websites whether we’re alright with cookies or not, they’re called HTTP headers.

You can in /dev at least, I sometimes rename/move /dev/ttyUSB1 to /dev/ttyUSB0 for my 3D printer

We were hoping for a new Tesla and instead got yet another Edison.

Like they don’t track you just by visiting? Also, no one said you need to “give them your identity”. Make up one.

Check journal, you should see either an error or a wakeup reason

Kali, I actually think that’s the old Backtrack logo

Idk, mine can. https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_unicode

I think the arguments against the “bloat” are not towards systemd as an init system, but rather are because systemd does so many things other than being an init system. I also don’t mind systemd, but I absolutely hate systemd-resolved. I do not want my init system to proxy DNS queries by setting my resolv.conf to 127.0.0.53. Just write systemd- and press tab, that’s “the bloat”. I’m not saying that the systemd devs should not develop any new tools, but why put them all inside one software package? systemd-homed is cool, but useless for 99% of users. Same with enrolling FIDO2 tokens in a LUKS2 volume with systemd-cryptenroll. Far from useless or “bad”, but still bloat for an init system.

Most modern OSes feature emoji pickers though

Correct, users that are not explicitly configured as sudoers are limited both in files they can access and commands they can run.

Yeah, Linux was built as a multi-user system, so user and group permissions have always been a core aspect of it. The “password locked admin account” is just the root user, although you should maybe leave that as a “failsafe” account and create a separate user with sudoer permissions. Every file and folder in Linux has an owner and read/write/execute permissions for the owner, members of its group, and others. By default, users are limited to their own home folder (/home/username, where folders like Documents are stored) and a handful of world-writable locations (like /tmp) If you need more specific permissions, ACLs are also available. Or SELinux.

The biggest difference regarding distribution choice is that some distros ship with SELinux enabled, while most don’t. For everything else there’s not much difference, so maybe start with Debian for its community support/resources?

Yeah, that’s the error you get when trying to run an x86 program on ARM or vice versa

“Yeah this update is going to make your phones slower” is not something any smartphone producer would ever say. The difference might be negligible, but less power = less performance.

No one with half a brain would assume the FTC actually said that. OP’s title is verbatim from the article, as it should be.

until recently, it punished anyone on Nvidia

My brother in Christ, it’s Nvidia punishing you for using Wayland.