People become nicer on the east coast of Florida as you go away from Miami.

Wow I almost fell for this. Sounds so believable in today’s atmosphere.

You’re misreading the ..+? part. That means 2 or more characters, non greedy.

I don’t find this surprising at all. So many windows updates broke dual booting over years. They really don’t care and have no need to.

I think it depends on the intent in the groupings. Is it money flow? Then it makes sense. Is it editorial influence? Then it seems to make less sense.

I’m surprised YouTube and Google News are listed as news outlets. They don’t create news content, they aggregate it. Arguments can be made about biasing which content is shown first, but not about the content itself, which is owned by the other entities on the list

They don’t change things just for the sake of it. They change things so they can point at it and say, “look what I did! I deserve a promotion!”

You didn’t get any instructions before hand? Is this in higher education or earlier?

You having regrets depends on your expectations. If you want a very stable system with little maintenance then you’ll be happy. Packages will be older but that’s what makes it easy to keep stable.

I’m not personally a fan of vanilla Debian because the stable versions are a bit too outdated for the things I like to work with. I do use Debian derivatives though the LTS versions.

The numbers in the chart seem suspicious. In two instances there is very clearly bad data because they represent maximum values for a 32-bot integer. Another one says 611 MILLION PERCENT increase for a population of 12 thousand. That doesn’t make sense to me. Open the tab labeled Data Table for Wastewater Surveillance Percent Change in Last 15 Days

And sort by the last column

I knew someone who did this but swapped out the physical hard drive each time. I wouldn’t dual boot because then it’s much more obvious to IT what you’ve done.

This is only realistically feasible though if the hard drive is easily accessible. If it’s something like a Mac or soldered in dual booting is your only choice. As others have said, this could get you in a lot of trouble with your company. Check the docs you’ve signed

Ublock origin on Firefox. You’ll be shocked at how fast pages will load

It shouldn’t break if you just install packages from the main app installer. It’s more of a concern if you’re trying to install anything from source.

Also make sure to try a live cd or live USB to make sure the OS is compatible with your hardware. VM is not sufficient for this last one. This is usually only an issue if you have very new hardware.

I would get comfortable with the idea of breaking things. Make regular backups of your data. The best that I’m aware of for making it easy to work backwards from breaking things is NixOS, but I wouldn’t consider it beginner friendly.

You learn a lot from trying to bring a system back online. But it depends if you’re trying Linux to learn it more or just to take advance of privacy.

Yes, though this is true of a lot of the easier distros.

I was newish to Linux and had just run rm -rf ./.* to remove all the hidden files/dirs in a directory. I then wanted to run rm -rf ./* to clear the rest, but I accidentally ran rm -rf . /*. By the time I noticed it was taking too long and hit Ctrl+C, it was too late.

What IT guys did you go to?

Android phones block most of my spam calls and texts.

You just described the phrase “ignorance is bliss”, which has been around for a very, very long time.

It’s WAY better than batch (not to be confused with bash) scripting. It’s got some really nice features though and lacks a lot of the small paper cuts inherited from legacy shells. Look at nushell for something similar on Linux.