Idk ive only used like MInt, Manjaro, Arch, and Debian personally. Mint doesnt support gnome, Majaro has options for gnome or KDE, Arch u just do it yourself how you want, and Debian you pick whatever one you want during install. Not sure what it matters anyway if you still have the option to use whatever you want tho. I mean Mint didnt support gnome, and i just installed it manually anyway and it worked fine.

require ID for all non-personal vehicles, and then use cameras to track the plates of all cars going across state lines. So theyd be able to ID the vast majority of people.

The default? Most distros you select what DE you want when you get your image or during install. How is it the default? Do u just mean Ubuntu?

Depends. What does retiring mean? Does it count if society collapses and i go live in the woods?

why you should be able to disregard this guy's blog post under the premise that he comes off as someone who's full of himself.

Have i got news for you. No one has to give a shit about any blogpost. You could make a blogpost outlining the exact way to correctly build a cold fusion reactor for 25$ and nobody would be obligated to give a fuck. Its your job to convince people to give a fuck about what your saying and usually being an asshole is not the best way to do that. Do some introspection.

I mean its pretty simple. I dont trust software controls to control the cameras being on or off. So i cover them. Its a foolproof way to make sure your cameras are off basically. Id like to just not have the cameras but its basically impossible to find some types lf devices that dont have them. Like a phone for example.

The dolphins should do democratic centralism

idk the logistics of it bother me. I just get 1 sweater? Then it would need to be enough money i both wouldnt have to work and could hire someone to wash it for me every night. Also can i wear a shirt under it to prevent nip chafeing?

DEI is just a dogwhistle for homophobia and racism. The issue with the Trump voters is he courts lots of just like pissed off poor white people and he redirects their anger at liberal elites towards immigrants, trans people, gay people, POC, etc.

If the economy wasn't set up in such a way that these people are so poor theyd be less likely to buy into all that nonsense. Happy people dont join cults generally. Its the desperate and angry that join movements like that and then get radicalized to the right.

But ya i mean the whole degree or no degree is really just a "did you have 25 grand to get this piece of paper with at 18?" signifier. Its a class designator. Just like how in ancient times higher classes wore different colored clothes and whatnot.

Like for example take a retail worker vs someone at head office. The retail worker makes dirext contributions to tons of sales and if theyre gone for 1 hour shit starts to fall apart. Yet they make minimim wage usually.

The one at head office has pointless meeting all day, and if they stop working for an hour no one notices. Yet they make significantly more money.

The money made by a job isnt based on the value of the work in companies like this its based on the class of worker that applies for said job.

Now outside of large companies this isnt always the case as you can have trades, and sole proprietorships, etc. But those are some rare exceptions.

In general they place "high class" or "middle class" jobs behind a degree requirement even if the job isnt really very hard and a highschool education would be fine to do it.

Even highschool's in the US are classed. Since they're largely funded by property taxes high property values means better schools. And we have different curriculum in different schools too. There are highschools in rich areas which emphasize thinking outside the box, social skills, etc then in poor areas its more do as your told, heavy punishment rates, keeping people in line. This plays into the school to prison pipeline too. Prison is the lowest class in America as it is used for slave labor.

Americas classes are generally like this:

Capitalists: The ones who own everything billionaires 100+ millionaires etc

High class: some politicians, CEOs, people who typically act as a proxy and serve the will of a capitalist. Altho some capitalists choose to do these jobs themselves.

Upper middle class: People making significant money living very comfortably but who arent filthy rich. These are typically your highly skilled professional types. Doctors, Lawyers, etc.

Middle class: This is a very mixed bag but one of the main jobs of the middle class is to manage the lower classes. So its common for them to fill managerial roles.

Lower class: your poor workers who do whatever job they can to make ends meet.

Prison Labor: The millions of people in Americas prisons who do hard manual labor for pennies as a slave workforce. Usually in prison for some stupid bullshit that shouldn't be illegal or shouldn't have such a harsh sentence.

There are lots of signifiers to let people know what class you are that are baked into the system. Money being an obvious one, but degrees, criminal records, the way you dress, car you drive, phone you have, etc all play into it. And people subconsciously take note of it all the time. I personally find it to be an inhumane and gross system so i dont try to participate in it.

Store brand the cheapest available cuz i dont like to waste my money

if he wants to try it on the pi itll def work and all just maybe explain the experience wont really be the same he would get on a regular pc also to really try linux out id suggest letting him try a bunch of different DEs and see which he likes. Personally i think on small screen mobile devices like a laptop that Gnome is best, and on a desktop id go with KDE plasma. Cinnamon is also pretty good just depends what you want.

I dont know what that app is but in general if your employer has software on a device assume they can see everything on it.