Still, huh? Yeah, that is why I stopped using it too.

How does OTR work on it nowadays, or have XMPP moved to some other encryption?

This is such an important thing to learn when using linux. If you want to be able to rescue your setup and not just reinstall: live usb!

To do a rescue on a system that does not boot, then you may also have to enter your environment and fix things, you do that by chroot. I always forget what steps are necessary, so I always look it up in the gentoo handbook: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Chrooting It is the same principle with any live media.

Look into a distro that you might like, and find a “live usb” of it, often it is the installation media itself. How it works is basically it is a linux already installed on a disk image you transfer to the usb, and tell the computer to boot from it. Instructions on all this usually comes with the live usb media. Then you usually get a “try it out” or “install” option, or it just leaves you at a pre-configured desktop. Click around, install stuff, browse the web, get a feel for it.

The bum on the rods is hunted down as an enemy of mankind
The other is driven around to his club, is feted, wined and dined

And they who curse the bum on the rods as the essence of all that’s bad
Will greet the other with a willing smile and extend a hand so glad

The bum on the rods is a social flea who gets an occassional bite
The bum on the plush is a social leech, bloodsucking day and night

The bum on the rods is a load so light that his weight we scarcely feel
But it takes the labour of dozens of folks to furnish the other a meal

As long as we sanction the bum on the plush the other will always be there
But rid ourselves of the bum on the plush and the other will dissappear

Then make an intelligent organised kick get rid of the weights that crush
Dont worry about the bum on the rods get rid of the bum on the plush

I don’t use .desktop files that much… But I guess xfce is X and not wayland. Check the DISPLAY env var for your user and set the same in your script there or run the binary with that env var.

The villages are mined the contract’s been signed
We’ll tell you one more time WE WANT YOUR OIL
Supply no longer guaranteed we demand security
Running out of Texas tea WE WANT YOUR OIL
Children of the CIA we want somewhere new to play
Better get right out the way WE WANT YOUR OIL

– Asian Dun Foundation - Oil

No, this is what causes high crime rates! If you want lower crime rates you just outlaw law.

Annie Lööf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lööf

While she is a crazy economically far right politician, who wants everyone to have higher rents, no welfare, and so on, the one thing her party (through many party leader switches since her) still stands against is the populist racist far right. While all other right wing parties adopted the far-right language and started collaborating with them, her party did not, and left their previous coallition to be in opposition instead. I have probably zero respect and understanding for her and her party’s politics, except for that one point. This position also led her to be a target of a planned neo nazi assassination, because of all the hate the far right (here I mean hate the actual far right party, which all the right parties collaborates with openly had for her) has for her and her party.

If you use debian, since it is a libre distro, they have anarchism to install instead

apt install anarchism

from the default repo https://packages.debian.org/trixie/anarchism

No Lives Matter is a violent subculture closely connected to Neo Nazis. They are responsibe for several knife attacks around the world, of which at least two happened in Sweden. More info here, https://expo.se/lar-dig-mer/wiki/764-no-lives-matter/ (swedish).

I do not claim that is what is referenced here, people should just be aware.

one can further prove that the sphere S**n−1 can be partitioned into as many pieces as there are real numbers (that is, pieces)

Would the answer to OP be some argument along the lines of defining the surface area of the ball as the sum of the partitioned balls surface areas then?

How long since you ran ‘apt update’? I have envountered issues where the local apt cache is stale, causing it to contain packages which are old and removed from the upstream repo. You need to update your cache and try to install again.

Windows XP had been out for quite a while, and I did not want to use it. Staying on 98SE was not going to be possible forever. Ubuntu was quite new, I had recently started uni, and some friends helped me get started. There was one thing that absolutely amazed me: package repository. Just the concept. Windows at the time, to install stuff was finding random pages, sifting through ads, locate download button, hope it is not a virus. Linux had it solved. So far superior it there was no way I’m going back after that.

History repeats itself

Ooo, is this where I find proper black socks and not just socks that are really really really dark blue?

Do you have to use Teams?

Well, I just wanted it as a secondary browser when troubleshooting firefox.

Nowadays the worst thing appears to be compiling chromium with X and Wayland support.

Then go for it! Gentoo is a wonderful option for that goal.