I mean there’s a 99% chance Pierre wins.

Sadly true.

Hopefully we can at least hold him to a minority.

Given how allergic the conservatives seem to be (since at least Harper’s days) about working cooperatively with any other party, a minority parliament ought to be able to minimize the damage. I hope.

it is easy to see why people might be feeling disenfranchised and might just not vote

And now they get to see the results of their letting perfect get in the way of good.

If you don’t think Trump will actively accelerate that you’re deluding yourself.

My kids only knew Linux from the first day they used a computer.

They didn’t have any difficulty transitioning between that at home and the chromebooks or windows desktops the school had.

In the reality of the current election, the only 2 options available are the lesser evil or the greater and more chaotic evil.

people who won’t vote for genocide,

Would you prefer to vote for the candidate who has been calling for a cease fire, or the one that has bent over for Netanyahu in the past and fully plans to do it again?

Because those are the only 2 options available.

However the American presidential election and the consequences of it’s outcome certainly is in large part about Donald fucking Trump.

Imagine being a “party official” for the very party that would “crack down” on you for your reading list.

Anyone parroting those tired talking points who thinks Trump would be less of a problem for Gaza or the Palestinians needs to get their head examined.

Trump has already demonstrated that he’s Netanyahu’s bitch.

I’ve used old laptops as battery backed up NAS boxes.

Obviously assumes that you can install a reasonably large drive and that the battery still has some life left in it.

I tried FreeBSD many years ago (back when I was on dialup and bought a book with the FreeBSD install CD included…).

At the time it was interesting to tinker with, and I did use it as a dual-boot on my Win95 computer, but I moved on to Linux when Knoppix came along.

At the time linux seemed more end user friendly.

Maybe I should spin up an install just for nostalgia sake, and to see where it’s at these days.

all it takes is one phone call from a US Pres

What an amazingly simplistic view of geopolitics.

Checkout Trump’s history of making his “close personal friend” Bibi happy if you want to be even more angry.

Multiple TB when setting up a new server to mirror an existing one. (Did an initial copy with both together in the same room, before moving the clone to a physically separate location. Doing that initial copy would saturate the network connection for a week or more otherwise)

the actual “issue” here does seem to just be that the US isn’t able to compete with China in these fields anymore.

That’ll happen when you outsource all your manufacturing for a few decades in the pursuit of quick profits for wall street.