Dampening is making things -wet- ...

moist, or slightly wet.
The meaning of this word stops short of "drenching/dousing something".

I had dual booted Ubuntu with Windows when I was in college, without having any prior exposure to Linux or any skill in coding or even scripting. The install itself was incredibly easy and I was wondering why more kids don't do it. All the core functions that a computer was supposed to, Ubuntu was doing it better than Windows save one - running windows specific software.

I guess Linux was good enough for education back then itself, but it ddn't run fancy games and I could not convince anyone else to dual boot their PC.

They have an agreement with MS, so they are definitely doing something there.

So what happened to him?

Download it now, then. Before it becomesa law.

To add to it,

Not META, but there are videos of small business owners explaining how amazon used their data to set up its own thing as their direct rivals, then manipulated their ratings, virtually stealing their clients too.

Tell them that selling their data to thurd parties is one of the biggest revenue streams of META, that you are NOT ok exposing your own business to such risks and that as a serious business, they should be wary of giving data to data selling / leasing social networks as well.

phone number isn't just any metadata; it is the anchoring data around which the rest of metadata is collected, and it is also connected to govt/corporate verified real identity.

why would anyone even claim to offer privacy around such an anchor ?

Windows is no longer for power users. With each version, it kills the power of users some more, and asks for more powerful hardware like a hungry beast.

Is it time to write a new open source software?

Is the data of specific distros available somewhere ?

Tesla and Tata Motors are exceptions noted, but noted highlighted in the article.

What kind of secrets are there that voters must not be aware about? Not one.