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Rose City 'Til I Die. Go pound sand fascists. Traitors to the Constitution.

I've been on Mint Cinnamon for probably close to 10 years now after spending the first half of my career developing applications for Windows platform with MS tooling and backend. I saw the direction they were going with Win8 and made the switch and have never looked back.

My main desktop went out of support earlier this year, but it has been so stable I can't be bothered to rebuild it. I have apps for everything I need from photo and video editing and management, to gaming, to productivity and development. My newer laptops have more recent builds and likewise have worked without issue. Really the only speedbump I have are a couple of Windows only things like a Dymo label printer and some automotive tuning software, so I run a dual boot on one XPS 15.

Unfortunately at work I can't run Linux so I use a MBP as it's far better than Windows, however it still infuriates me regularly and I don't use any other Apple products. I've previously contributed to Mint and was recently thinking I need to send some more money, so thanks for the reminder!

Well my previous Mint LTS install just went out of support so guess I'll be rebuilding and might be able to try Supernova.

I hate the message list pane on the left but IIRC in the prerelease press they said you could swap the layout, so I'm hoping that remains true. I've been a happy a happy Thunderbird user for many years with no desire to move to webmail. Glad to see it getting some love!

I've been using Photoprism for perhaps 18 months, primarily as a basic way to categorize and browse my photos. Not a power user by any means but I found it easy to use and upgrade over time. I had a couple small issues like image deletion and easy sync to s3, which may have been addressed in recent builds. I actually need to get back into it to upload my recent summer vacation pics. Overall I was a happy user and the tool met my needs for a photo catalog that I control and run locally.

Mint Cinnamon has been so good to me as a daily driver since I left Windows when Win8 came along. My older watercooled i7-7770 mini-ITX 1060 GTS has been chugging along on 19.03 LTS for years, and I've adopted a complete ecosystem of Linux tools for everything from development to photo/video editing to gaming due to its stability.

Recently picked up a Dell XPS15 with a new i7 and nVidia 3050 and the latest release worked with everything out of the box.

I would prefer rolling release to avoid the situation I'm in with LTS, but otherwise I'm a very happy Mint user and financial contributor.

The proliferation of gambling is driving me away from sporting events. I won't take my child to an event where gambling is repeatedly promoted front and center. Ditto for broadcasts and the excessive ads for FanDuel and whatever. Recently visiting family in Michigan I was appalled at the nonstop gambling ads during sports broadcasts. I had to leave the room. Combined with escalating ticket costs I have completely tuned out of things I used to watch regularly. Its sad that everything is monetized to the point of ruining it.

Appreciate the feedback, glad to hear that I am an anomaly. The camera is on WiFi and I have a mesh network with multiple UniFi APs. Both get good signal where the camera is located. Even in the same room as the AP my max uptime is about 1 day before it disconnects.

The Access Points, PoE switch, and firewall work fine. My only dissatisfaction has been the G3 camera. As others have stated its a big investment so not moving off the ecosystem today. However when its time to upgrade everything I will certainly shop around.

No. At least not by default. I don't believe in pervasive surveillance however so I only really use it when away from home for extended periods.

I use UniFi devices throughout my home but the cameras (G3 specifically) are buggy and frequently disconnect, and don't auto reconnect. Basically useless.

Over the year end holidays I was traveling and set one up to monitor my front yard. There was actually an incident while I was gone and I remoted in to find the camera offline, totally missed it when it should have had perfect perspective. The police asked me for video and in this case I would have shared it, but alas could not. Sucks as I have the CloudKey box for video storage, but its very undependable in my experience.

I had a similar issue and ended up deplatformed by FB. I hadn't logged in for a couple of years, but some friends had tagged me in an event photo. Figured I might go checkout what was posted over time.

When attempting to log in, my password was not recognized. I successfully reset my password, but upon logging in I was presented with a validation prompt demanding I get several people to vouch for me, from a selection of 6. Only problem was I only knew one of those people.

At that point my entire profile vanished from FB. Friends and family no longer see me in their lists, even my wife. There's no way to contest this or get support, so I vanished.

Later I found out an astroturf profile of me was created, but its not me (I have a globally unique name). There's no way I will ever use a Meta product or account in the future based on this experience.

I have been using Thunderbird for so many years across a variety of platforms. Happy to see continued development while maintaining my ability to customize. I appreciate the ability to hide tags and local folders in the new interface. I look forward to trying Supernova.

I use a Dymo to print bar code labels for inventory. With my current printer the Dymo labels are significantly marked up with no difference in quality. I've used thousands of third party labels with zero issues.

I read about this recently when trying to download the driver package. In one brief act, Dymo ensured I will not buy their products again. The 'value' of this feature is zero to me, its just capture.

I would never buy a Keurig product nor a HP printer for this reason. Guess the list keeps getting longer.

"When patents expire, you'll see many generics come onto the market at reduced costs, and cost to consumer goes down."

This assertion is simply not true. A prime example - Insulin is 100 years old. Those who need it are paying sky high prices due to corporate greed, and many simply can't afford it. No competition, no affordable option. People are dying due to this greed.

This system also made it impossible for me to ever log in again. It had been a few years since I used FB but some friends tagged me at an event, so I figured what the heck.

I was presented with a system I had never configured, which asked me to contact people I don't know to get them to vouch for me. At the same time my FB profile was blackholed, and my wife and long time actual friends can't even see that I exist anymore. Just some person that astroturfed my name with no content (I have a globally unique name).

So I no longer exist from FB perspective, which made both my decision to not use FB as well as never use any FB products like Occulus much easier.

That's not accurate in any form. The Mustang was not a sedan, but a coupe, and Ford has not stopped making the Mustang in the current form. You can still order a GT500 with 12mpg city. They added an electric version, the Mach-E, which is more of a crossover format.

Our 5yo daughter loves looking through our old paperback versions, but we generally won't read them to her yet as the story and comedy is way over her head in most cases. She can grow up reading them over time as I did daily in the paper growing up.

One day we'll let her read our first edition color hardcover boxed set. But she probably should start acting a little less like Calvin first.

GovCloud is a separate partition from Secret. Different regulatory framework alignment and customer onboarding.

GovCloud customers only need be a US person or entity, beyond that any further regulatory alignment is up to the customer. AWS does not audit the IAM user base for nationality or any compliance requirements.

Disclaimer: I am an AWS Public Sector Solutions Architect.

Great tool for both safety and entertainment. I foresee printing many stickers for my garage/shop and general hijinks.

Which is exactly what I did coming out of undergrad University here in the US. I started work and then for fun I went and formally studied German at a local college, taught by a native speaker born in Köln. I was educated to use Sie out of respect and only use du with close friends, children, and only when instructed by co-workers and other associates. In my travels I have had many discussions in German and have not once been repremanded, only on occasion told I am fine to use the informal form.

Business Associate Agreement, which defines the legal requirements between two parties sharing HIPAA data.

I still have 2 of these in my old hardware box. I used to run them at 4.5x100MHz on Abit BH6 single CPU mobo. Great way for me to bump performance as a poor CompSci student. And yeah, I ran SETI@home on them as well.

I agree with this sentiment but archive.org didn't work for me anyways, I got slightly farther down the page before the paywall obscured the content.

I was a paid BeOS customer and still have copies of multiple versions in the original branded shipper envelopes. I have fond memories of using it back during my college CS days. Really loved the interface, that was quite the time when I used NT4, Solaris, Irix, and BeOS all at the same time.

I actually see this on my home Dell 4K connected to a MBP13 via Thunderbolt to DP. It happens when I'm not using a chair (adjustable desk) but now I'm going to be very observant when sitting down. I'd lean towards my cable being the issue however.

I used to drive down there from Portland to get parts that I needed right away. Haven't been there in years though, as it had definitely started going downhill in the early 2000s. I always hated the receipt checkers and used to walk right by the line of people waiting to get out after they paid for merch.

I did go to the AMD roadshow in the parking lot one time, and both my friend and I won Athlon CPU/Mobo combos, that was cool. That may have been the last time I was there. Sounds depressing.

I work for a major cloud provider and I'm remote as is the majority of my team nationally. Teams are often distributed and even if I went to the local office there is nobody from related business units to talk to.

AWS is already powered over 50% by renewable energy.

A couple weeks back we were on vacation in Hawaii, and one night at dinner the table of San Diegans next to us was having a rather loud and animated conversation. It seems they had rented out their property back home on Airbnb and they very clearly talked about not disclosing the cameras they had onsite to the tenants.

The tenants had discovered at least the doorbell camera and covered it up, to which the owners were not pleased and were debating calling the police on the tenant.

We were aghast at their complete lack of knowledge regarding undisclosed video surveillance of tenants and the violation of airbnb policy. My wife badly wanted to interject but we let it go. We did talk about how to mitigate these threats, made for some interesting vacation dinner conversation though.

I'll anecdotally contribute in agreement. I live in Portland and put all my returnables at the curb with recycling. Not worth driving to a return center to get $2 a month. The bottles are usually gone by 6am when I wake up.

Some local breweries are moving to reusable bottles that are washed and used many timees before recycling. We're building a washing plant in PDX this year to grow the program.