Kick the can down the road and download the MASgrave Win10 script (I think that's it, I don't use windows) that puts you on the Long Term support - iirc that gives you until Jan 2027. That's enough time to get through the zero parental sleep phase and be able to think clearly...

If that's of interest I'll dig the correct details out (ping me) or I'm sure someone else knows what I'm waffling about & will drop the link

Yes but don't use it for anything valuable. USBs have a high failure rate when used for heavy read writes.

You can get USB enclosures for M2 drives if you want to go that route a bit more reliably. Ensure you use USB3 (which will still be slow but not as boneachingly bad as USB2)

"The foreign policy expert, a longtime Russia watcher, said she had first made a similar warning in 2015, in a revised version of a book she wrote about the Russian president "

I think in fairness that if she has been warning us for 10 years she's entitled to a little bit of "I told you so" now that it is bleedingly obvious

Well duh !

You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy

And then he went to Salon ?

Donated by the owner

https://cybernews.com/news/tank-crushes-tesla/

"The car’s battery was removed and the vehicle made safe before it was crushed, the group said. The Tesla had been donated by an owner who said they were “appalled” by Musk’s public support for far-right movements in Europe."

That's a puzzling position, they don't have a majority, and the NDP are not exactly a long way from the Libs on most subjects. NDP have enough seats to make it a coalition majority

Ahh yes, another "it can't be done perfectly, so subtext, you shouldn't bother at all"

An imperfect boycott beats no boycott. Do your best initially and then keep working to improve it.

They're scared. Don't let them off the hook because it's hard

That's weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don't have a bluesky account.

Ahh hang on, this one doesn't work but all the rest do

https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x

Ahh here we go: it's a user made setting not a bluesky one

"Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author."

It's not, but it is better than using google

It's demographics. Linux contributors & maintainers skew heavily to the older end of the spectrum (and, although not relevant to this point, also skew heavily male).

People who can contribute time to a project for free tend to be older because they are financially and career settled by the time they hit 50s. Raising a family tends not to leave a lot of spare time.

Context for those who are baffled (I was)

https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/

No Linus hasn't grabbed a red rag and isn't off to foment revolution