some would even argue no modified stone tools

I think the most compelling theory is we mated them into our communities, while outcompeting for food

What, no socks?

Good to know! TBH, I'm specifically excited to see it was present in the fertile crescent. I really like clay tablets.

it's like you've never heard of roommates. If you get a third job and find a couple people, i'm sure you could afford to rent a shed

Voting with your dollar is a myth (it's a myth that workers have any vote, not that the dollar controls the imperial core). China offering a viable alternative to not being able to afford cars because companies have arbitrarily inflated prices is great. Arbitrarily spending a lot more money that will mostly go to shareholders in the US is not going to help the worker

Because I am Billgamesh, king of Uruk, the walled city

Runs KDE and xfce fine.

Yeah. I'd recommend using ssh keys and disabling password authentication whenever something is exposed to a public network

I mean, that's one of the things that definitely needs permissions, right? You're overwriting system config and executables for all users on your system. Otherwise a malicious actor could just replace firewall configs, or embed malicious code into your executables. If not /bin and /etc what else should need privileges?

I'm in a similar boat, but tend to mirror my important files across a lot of my drives. Also, whenever I move hard drives computer to computer, I first look at the drive and copy everything I don't wanna lose, just in case.. Basically, learned to be careful the hard way a few times lol

Yeah. F-droid's defaults for me have always worked well, and if I want a specific app to be up to date, I'll download it right from the devs (Shattered Pixel)