That's some orgy. You'd need a decent multi storey car park with them all going round and round that exit spiral thing.

Maybe they were Teslas and you could hope for a particular mild electrical design fault. At least it would be filmed.

Typically only the ones from my local doctor's surgery are legit no number (UK). Government agencies provide numbers these days as far as I've seen.

So I haven't/can't blocked no numbers on the Google phone app.

I think you're starting too big, to use your phrase.

Get used to the basics first: what's different (to whatever you're running now), what's the same. They Linux distributions almost all have GUIs (KDE, GNOME are the main ones but there are many others).

Run a live USB version from a usb stick to get used to it until you have the confidence to install it on an old pc. Personally I do not recommend dual booting; data gets lost that way. Install it on an old pc and learn how to restore your backups to a Linux filesystem (not the fs of what you're used to on Linux platform). I write that because you said that want to end up with a Linux server.

Choose one of the top few from distrowatch.com/

Your aim is to understand what's going on under neither the GUI; how permissions work.

I started by installing a VoIP product into a VM on Windows 2000, but there are better ways now.

Good luck. You shouldn't find it that difficult.

Upvoted.

Appreciate the reply, but I don't mind some proprietary code. There are very few reviews of open code by respected bodies (I'm writing in generality here). I'm certainly not qualified to review code. Just being open is only the beginning of the journey.

As we've seen with some open software recently there are some active hackers successfully targeting open software because it is open. Such exploits are not always discovered in good time.

https://thenewstack.io/why-so-much-open-source-software-is-vulnerable-to-hackers/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/github-desktop-vulnerability-risks.html

Etc etc.

I place store by the warrant responses and action of government entities against some software.

Have you not heard of Google's legendary ability of ditching products? If you were able to buy those movies, how do you think that would go when it closes down?

Or use cutlery properly.

To be honest, Cockpit is the only (Web) one I know about.

RPM slave here.

PM proposes he has a tax cut.

Nothing to see here.

Tesla is too funny.

Perhaps a better question is: asking why Apple isn't mainstream?

Linux almost always needs to be installed, whereas Apple is plug n' play. Plus Linux has a reputation of being much more complicated than it actually is.

The disparity between the proportion of iMac sales vs the people who could afford an iMac is rather enormous, but I have this idea that for iPhones and Androids, this is reversed.

I find that conundrum, assuming it's true, kinda interesting.

Have you been to Vietnam? 😂🤣

I'd known that about the US, but always assumed that England had English as the official language.

Mind you, the aristocracy and royalty spoke French for 200 years so I'm wondering whether English, or French come to that, was ever the official language.