I gave up running an email server long ago - I thought it was basically impossible because too many spammers were doing it for nefarious purposes.

The second one gave me a message that the domain has been seized. :(

I’d add that quite a few of them have also been intentionally misled. They’ve been fed a diet of shit information over the past few decades, and it has an effect.

The whole page is the point. You don’t seem to be very informed on the situation; you claimed it was just a few friends. I was trying to tell you it was a systemic issue, and the long page is evidence of that.

I’m guessing you’re religious and trying to avoid facing the fact that religions do bad things, too. Well, guess what? They do.

“Ragging on religious institutions” lol. Seems like you just want to bury your head in the sand.

I’ve scrolled through your comments and realize now you’re a Trump fan, so I now realize I’ve been wasting my time. There’s no point in trying to explain something to Trump fans, you guys are beyond help. And I’m guessing your “government school” comment is referring to the (insane, untrue) claims that schools indoctrinate kids to be trans or whatever the hell they are claiming today. So, don’t bother replying, I’m just going to add you to my block list, and I won’t see it any way.

Trump fans. Just keep drinking that Flavor-Aid. Still supporting that jackass after all of the stupid shit he has done. The “party of law and order” supporting churches that covered up pedophiles for years. Insane.

And yes, he is racist. If you think otherwise, you’re burying your head in the sand, again.

Please read up on it. I’m sure now they do have that policy, but…it was an extremely widespread problem, literally all over the world. Any claim that they’ve fixed the problem is going to be met with skepticism for a long time, and rightly so. They worked HARD to hide it.

I do think the Catholic church was right about one thing - it likely happened in other churches as well.

Uh, it was more of an institutional policy. That’s why it was such a scandal.

Unfortunately some churches have a reputation for covering up the crime and not punishing the perpetrator.

It’s one thing for the crime to happen; it’s much worse when a bunch of people decide to hide it.

You’re missing the point. That compromised xz made it into some production distributions. The point here is that shit can happen to Linux, too.

I love how quickly everyone has forgotten about that xz attack.

I use and love Linux and have for over two decades now, but I’m not going to sit here and claim that something similar to the current Windows issue can’t happen to Linux.

How I imagine that would go:

Or a statistician. looks around nervously

I bought a Lenovo about 2 years ago that I’ve been really happy with. I wanted something with a metal shell because I carry my laptop around sometimes and use it balanced on one hand, and my previous Dell (plastic) started flexing and having weird issues with the TouchPad as a result. The Lenovo has been solid. I’m running Kubuntu on it, but my plan is to go Debian at some point.

Our state has speed cameras in school zones. I would like to see before-and-after statistics showing that fewer kids have been hit since the installation of the cameras.

Of course, said data doesn’t exist, because no one bothered to collect it. It “feels” safer and generates revenue, so they do it.

All these comments, and I’m wondering who would ask someone about their height like this…it’s pretty easy to estimate someone’s height just by observation.

Great question - during the pandemic there were a lot of memes about how dogs are loving the humans being home all day, while cats were hating it. Our cats were glad to have us home all day (as was the dog, who kept demanding walks at odd times until he settled into the new routine).

When we get home from errands, the dog will of course be at the door - and there’s about a 85% chance the one cat will be nearby, too. Another cat will often show up as well. (The third cat, never. He’s too busy hiding.)

News, businesses, and celebrities continue to use it for some reason. It won’t die until they stop.

Look how deep Twitter is in sports reporting. Any article about an event in a game (a goal, a hit in hockey, etc.) has the video… from Twitter. It’s the default and just won’t stop. Until that mindset changes, I’m afraid Twitter will continue to exist.

Yeah, we bought a new LG washer and dryer set when we moved to this house in late 2016. The washer has been trouble free. In fact, it actually saved us from washing delicate clothes in hot water (the handles on the spigots are reversed - the blue is hot; the red is cold) - it filled up, recognized there was a problem, and drained without doing anything more. I thought there was an issue with the washer at first, but then I realized how warm it was inside the washer, and I figured it out from there. I don’t think it’s technically a smart washer in the current sense (there’s no app or anything), but it’s definitely smarter than the ones I’ve had before.

The dryer’s tension pulley failed, so I had to replace that, for ~$20 from Amazon. It was making noise for a long time, but like a dolt I waited until it actually failed to replace it. The replacement has been trouble free. I found a video on Youtube from someone that showed how to disassemble it to get to the part - it’s easier than it looks.

There’s a bill in Congress now to insert a citizenship question into the next Census. I assume it’s unlikely to go beyond the House, but they definitely haven’t given up.

Yeah, I think you’re right. I forgot to add that there’s no mucking about with drivers and all of that, it really just works. Older scanners usually aren’t a problem with Linux, but Vuescan almost certainly supports them as well.

I paid for Vuescan. There are a ton of Linux scanning apps, but pretty much all of them require editing all pictures to some extent after the scan. Vuescan applies a useful set of defaults that work for most pictures, speeding up the work flow. I had over 4,000 pictures to scan so anything to simplify that was worth it.