Absolutely not, and please don’t be ashamed. I didn’t take anything you said as hostile at all. I always appreciate a great discussion. Asserting opinions combined with asking questions is a great way to learn. I’m glad to be able to help open your understanding about why some people use different releases and how they can be useful outside of just the current release. Thank you for being open for an exchange of ideas.

I understand and respect your opinion. I have new hardware though, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 9070XT GPU. I bought them a couple of weeks after release and needed drivers for them to “get my money’s worth” out of them. (CP2077 at 4k with 144hz was a must!) I needed the newer mesa drivers at the time, and this was pre-trixie, so I opted to use forky instead. I opted to not reinstall after trixie was released as I already had all of my stuff set up and configured. As far as security, package releases in deb go into sid for 10, 5, or 2 days for stability testing (depending on the urgency) before being pushed into forky, but the Debian security team does not work with either sid or forky. So, neither are really more or less secure than the other. Forky is just a teeny bit more “stable” than unstable.

I personally take a calculated risk, I understand the security implications and rely on other external network-based security measures, so probably feel a bit more confident than most users and am willing to take the risk more than others may. I also have submitted bugs and provide feedback to packages fairly often for both Debian and KDE while using both trixie and forky, which I feel is important for end-user usability. I’ve been using Debian for a long time and have tried to contribute back where I can.

I’ve been on Debian for over 20 years now, after a major issue with a LAMP server using Ubuntu Warthog and going to “the source” of Ubuntu to work out a few issues. I ended up converting all of my servers (Former SysAdmin) to Debian within a few weeks. After that, I moved from Slackware at home and Ubuntu at work to Debian everywhere and never looked back.

My laptop and dev box are Debian Trixie along with two home servers that are Debian Bookworm. My gaming computer is Debian Forky. Looking for the latest stable release to play games with, which is what most recommendations are for, will tell you to use Debian stable builds but stay away from Ubuntu LTS because they’re not up to date .

Forky (testing) is a great gaming distro with the latest drivers, but people are afraid it’s unstable (which is Debian Sid), so they choose to compare other distros to the last stable release while pushing Arch and the latest Ubuntu because Debian testing is too bleeding edge for what they think of Debian, which is supposed to be stable.

Super popular tv show from the 90s with Jennifer Anniston (from Office Space), Courtney Cox (from Scream) and a bunch of other schmucks that I can’t remember.

It is still developed, but still only 32 bit.

https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/

I bought a laptop in 1995 with OS2/warp on it. An IBM thinkpad 365xd. It was a glorious time.

Yeah, i mean for instance, all native American culture has been pushed out of America and most of the European immigrants that moved here replaced the cultures and religions of the native population. It really has been awful to force them out and replace them with what is here now. We barely know anything about the vast numbers of people who used to occupy the lands we currently claim to own because the immigrant governments murdered them and forced them out before settling here.

From a security standpoint, yes they can be broken out of, just like a docker or a virtual machine , but they use bubblewrap to isolate environments just like flatpaks. Malicious content aside they are just as isolated and sandboxed as a docker image or vm

I’m still burnt about this. I’ve been a subscriber since they started Linux support. Cancelling it last week sucked but I definitely let them know why during the process. It did a great job managing cp2077 mods on Linux.

Yes, it has different wine instances for each installed application, it uses a flatpak style separation to prevent them from accessing each other.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons-protesters/

The article was mistaken, they refer to it as non-lethal rounds. Even DHS itself refers to them as less lethal. There is a difference between less lethal and non-lethal.

Oh yeah, I was agreeing with you. Sorry if it didn’t come across that way. Just sick of the way things are and how out of control we are to affect things. Our elections belong to other governments now and psyop manipulation of the citizens who are still allowed to vote.

Israel, Russia, and China do that in every one of our elections. The problem is that they’re always trying to get the most disruptive candidate installed to weaken the US. Legitimate countries always take the stance of “we don’t want to get involved with yada yada”

A handful of countries are willing to put Trumps in charge and no one else is willing to stop them or put someone more friendly to the rest of the world in charge. Our elections are influenced on social media by Russia, economically influenced by China, and candidates are paid for by AIPAC and a south African billionaire. Our elections are as much the will of the people as the direction of the wind is, and we have just as much influence over each.

“AI almost there… I said it’s… Almost there. People down here say I’m crazy, but I don’t care. Trials and tribulations, you’ll have your share. There ain’t nothing gonna stop it now, AI is… almost there.” - definitely not Anika Noni Rose

Surprised he didn’t wait until the 6th. Seems to be his favorite day to attempt to change a country’s leadership.

:s/GNOME/KDE/g

One small change and we could be twins. My Debian server also runs Proxmox though, that’s where I distrohop. In VMs.

Super effective, I tried both of these on a couple of domains I have and the amount of hits they get vs how long crawlers stay in them is insane. I use the AI robot.txt file and if they ignore it will spend hours scraping randomized nonsense text from unlimited internal links. I’m sure large legit ai companies have protection, but I get a lot of traffic from Africa and Asia in particular. Not sure if it’s the source or a VPN, but I just look at the geos and tend not to dig deep.

Kyle Hill has an amazing video on how…

https://youtu.be/vC2mlCtuJiU

This American Life did a segment on AJ. I had no idea how f’ed up he was just generally as a person. This was before the divorce and custody trial when he claimed his whole persona is an act, but it made me think it wasn’t. He truly is just that much of an asshole with no relation with reality .

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/670/beware-the-jabberwock

Using the words thank you to respond to Alexa uses the same amount of gasoline a wood chipper takes to consume eleven spotted owls.