This guy knows how to do it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MvGKxDlXgvQ

I have a great idea. How about pasting this comment everywhere?

Had they not been arrested, they could have assisted genocide, committing war crimes every week or killing civilians, aid workers and reporters by the dozens. Only the worst terrorists could allow such things to happen.

Oh, wait…

Even though I’m aware Google would still have a lot of my data even if I deleted everything possible, one of the main reasons I swapped (apart from the manifest V3 controversy) was the privacy problem (yes, I know, I’m still using Facebook, regardless). I haven’t thought of the container aspect, though - thanks for that.

I switched to FF after having enough of Chrome’s shenanigans. I don’t make changes easily, and I took the sacrifice of not being able to receive calls over Facebook (desktop browser, and some of my acquaintances wouldn’t leave FB), and I still preferred Firefox after that.

And now they want to turn it into another Chrome? I could still just use Chrome and have the lost functionality. I mean I won’t, but they will just lose users with that direction.

After low hanging jeans, the new fashion style filtering out from jails to public will be sharpened toothbrush shivs. But hey, at least your kitchen knives will be nice and round tipped.

They want a backdoor to your emails while terrorism has been clear as day and they still haven’t done anything about it in Gaza.

Fuck that, just implant those mice on my scalp.

Yes, but this is why you break bad laws along with another 199,999 people for good reasons.

As a complete military noob: how does this affect the current conflict? By my naïve guess, it slows down the advance for a while, but ideally a well organised army has someone to stand in very shortly to minimise the effect. I understand it might lower the level of expertise, but considering such a large force (as in, many to pick from) I expect around the same level of competence from a substitute. Is it actually more significant than that? Are there other aspects I missed?

EDIT: Thank you all for the insights! It seems like it does have a tangible effect, and it actually takes longer to replace leadership than I anticipated. A life is a life, and nobody should die like this (especially when some power hungry megalomaniac sends you to), but you all helped me appreciate this news more, regardless.

If the next year’s elections fail and Orbán stays in power then we can start calling it Western Belarus from then on.

Around May next year. Might not be the right thing we’re both thinking of, but at least there will be elections in 2026.

Don’t worry, it’s only a matter of time and they will join you in not understanding.

I have played around before trying to install a few times, but I’m not sure if that exhausts the question: I brought up two terminal windows to ssh into my Raspberry Pi and to manage logs on the other, while I had a browser up to look up netcat usage examples. It didn’t freeze or crash during regular activity, if we’re looking for that.

If by live environment you mean the one running from the USB (before I start the actual install) then yes, the install itself starts from a live Mint, running from the USB already. Sorry, I’m not sure if that’s what you meant.

Yes, I have done a few things already, including memtest. I’ll copy from the forum:

The things I have tried:

• Updating my BIOS.
• The ISO I downloaded has been md5 checked, all fine. I have also tried 2 other ISO files from 2 other mirrors - same.
• Three (3) USB drives to install Mint, ranging from 8 GB to 24GB.
• Installing with or without multimedia codecs.
• Turning on secure boot before install (I was desperate, found a forum post with a similar error message, later I found out that it was for a different reason).
• Turning off secure boot before install (I found a different forum post where the exact opposite was recommended - later I found out that it was for a different reason).
• Installing in compatibility mode.
• Offering a sacrifice to Xebeth’Qlu, tormentor of souls.
• Running gparted before install, deleting the previously half-installed partition, formatting it myself to ext4, then running the installer.
• Splitting the aforementioned partition into a 16GB swap partition (I have 16GB RAM) and leaving the rest of it as ext4 (mounted at “/”).

• Running chkdsk -f on the SSD containing the MBR+Win10, then rebooting the PC twice, according to one of the error messages in my post below (then trying to install again).

That was the reason I decided to install Mint Cinnamon.

It’s been impossible to install for a week now. And I’m not even 100% IT illiterate. After ~3 days of struggling, I decided to do the walk of shame and post on the Mint forum, admitting my failure. It’s been unsolved for about a week now. >100 fails and errors, crashes, freezes.

I can’t even imagine where I would (not) be had I chosen Kali or Arch.

Also, there has been more than a few days’ worth of data proving that he can’t really be taken for granted for more than one and a half minutes.

Their home security IT system is a mosquito net made of paper with a post-it note saying ‘no hack pl0x’.

They had been caught letting the Russians take a quick comfy look around and promptly doing fuck all about it. I guess the Russians assume that it’s the same reason half of the EU/NATO would also know if Putty decided to take a walk in that country.

And this is where unregulated capitalism and the constant craze for GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH comes into the picture. With a failing demographic AND an aging society, economic collapse is inevitable. I mean, it could be just a long, smooth slope in theory, but not with this dystopian economic system where you have already spent the money you’re getting back in 10 years’ time, with the greedy shareholders dictating everything.

I mean, these demographic changes will happen regardless, but the effects of currently having such a flawed and short sighted system will be painfully drastic.