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  • This is true, but also there’s no way this wouldn’t have been reported rather quick, like not just online but within 5min someone would have been all:

    “Oi 999? The bridge on Crumpet Lane 'as fallen down, I can’t get to me Chippy!”

    Or

    “Oi wot was that loud bang outside me flat?! Made me spill me vindaloo! Holy Smeg the bridge collapsed!”

    Or like isn’t the UK the most surveiled country with their camera system? Is this bridge not on camera already? For that the AI telling location would probably be handy too I’d just be surprised they don’t have it on security cams.














  • I:

    A) Try Wine. No? Ok…

    B) Hello windows using friend or relative, can I borrow your PC for 30 min? No? Ok…

    C) Hey work IT man, so, I know this is dumb but I need to run a program called pkhex. Yeah it’s a hex editor specifically for pokemon hex files. Yeah I can get you anything on your cart. I can get you a legit Mew, even change your OT name from whatever you thought was cool in 1998. Ok so I need admin to download that real fast because I run Fedora, you bring your cart tomorrow and we can do this on lunch.

    Typically option B is enough lol.




  • So, I’m gonna be a bit of a contrarian here, but my main advice is to abandon requirements 1 and 3.

    As to 2, you’d be looking for an immutable or atomic distro, those are harder to fuck up.

    BUT I urge you not to be afraid of the terminal, it isn’t as scary as it looks! Try watching/following along with a couple “linux terminal for beginners” or “bash for beginners” videos on youtube like they’re a class. They’ll teach you the basics you need to be a LOT more comfortable within like an hour, and you’ll be a lot better off for it. I did the same and now a few years in I prefer the terminal for many things and cringe when I have to use the windows GUI at work for something that would take seconds on linux by typing one command that amounts to a sentence. It’s a very powerful and convenient tool and I reccomend not shutting yourself off from it.

    No matter the distro, you’re likely not going to fuck it up so bad it can’t be fixed, but do be careful when using sudo in the terminal as that is when it’s more likely. That said, no matter what (even if you stayed on windows), you should keep offsite backups of your most important files, things you couldn’t just redownload again. That way if you do fuck up, you can always just reinstall and replace your files no problem, it’s free! Sure nobody wants to take like an hour to do that, but still nothing gets lost which is the most important part.

    As for not requiring a password, no. You want the password checks. Security is important, and what’s more the password checks themselves can act as a “be careful this could fuck your shit up” warning. As annoying as they are, it can be a good thing!

    I’m sure you’ll get plenty “try this distro” responses so I’m not even going to go there, but my advice honestly applies to all distros equally.

    Tl;dr: Passwords safe, terminal good actually.



  • Of course, afaik almost no billionaire’s money is liquid either, it’s in properties and businesses and shit.

    Like I’m sure bezos has plenty liquid, but most of his billions is just a valuation of amazon/aws/whatever other shit he owns.

    Like, if we wanted to take all his money we’d have to completely liquidate amazon and aws, and his house etc, selling the assets off to whoever can afford it, it’s not just breaking into his Scrooge McDuck vault full gold coins.

    Not that it’s impossible, it just seems that many people don’t realize this and think it is just the Scrooge McDuck vault.