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.

This is only for Thinkpads which are offered as customized units and have a longer shipping time.

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.

Lichess actually has some stuff not there on chess.com. One of the heavyweights in open source world.

Is it time to write a new open source software?

Obsidian.

For an entity hat already has monopoly over violence, how difficult is it to claim monopoly over the collective will?

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

Thank you!

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