I check their other comments to see if it is just a one off, or their overarching personality type. Majority they are dicks to everyone.

Yeah I don’t get it, some people have 100s, dude that is what bookmarks are for.

I switched from reddit awhile back. It is similar, but so far have seen a lot less hostility than reddit. I don’t have time for those types , so if they turn to insults rather than proper dialog I just block them, even if they weren’t talking to me directly. It makes it a much more pleasant experience

He and colleagues wrote an interpreter to use BASIC on the Altair system. They didn’t write basic from scratch

Somebody set us up the bomb

Is your system writing logs?

There’s also over diagnosis where people want a reason for their personality traits and doctor shop. Sometimes people are just quirky as part of life experience, and not everything is a disorder.

Binary blobs

Binary blobs

I thought about learning Dvorak, but at this stage my fingers just do what I’m thinking, I’m not sure I can unlearn Qwerty.

It is very expensive, so ideally join a uni or school program that has acedemic licenses.

FreeCAD is a step below the AutoCAD suite. On shape is comparable for mechanical design. Siemens NX is top tier only matched in high end functions by CATIA. NX and CATIA dominate in Automotive, and Aerospace.

They have better marketing and establishing user benefit, their next project is GRID which is supposed to be for an IT admin to mass deploy software,patches and policies from a dashboard, like you do with Windows. So they will gain credit with IT pros

It is Ubuntu with some attention to the UI and UX, and just like Ubuntu the “pro” version has a price. Which you pay a premium to have things preinstalled.

The Zorin prices are donations to help pay the distro maintainers. You can choose 0 dollars, or atleast you used to be able to

That’s the fun and terrible part about Linux, too many choices :)

Depends what he’s looking for. I think Onshape (browser based CAD) has a free version. Your data is public though unless you go with a paid version.

If he wants a free Linux CAD there is FreeCAD and a few others.

If he is attending a university, as some retirees do to audit courses or enrich life, then Siemens NX (what GM, Stellantis, SpaceX, etc use) have an academic license for around $100 a year. It is now Windows only based, unless you run Linux headless version, but if you use any version NX12 or below there is a GUI LInux version that runs on REL or SUSE (or openSUSE since it shares SUSE binaries)

It’s one of the reasons my distro hopping kept bringing me back to OpenSUSE. GUI system apps, and a failsafe revert with snapper rollback if you tinker too much and break stuff.

:) since your are starting all over, what about ZFS?

Wasn’t bcachefs being removed from the kernel, due to some shenanigans with the maintainer? Maybe it is unrelated to your issue, or maybe something has been altered

Best thing would be for you to just search what exploits a firewall protects against because its not just open ports. I would link stuff but you are discounting what I linked earlier that Ubuntu ships with firewall off; by nature the most popular distro is less secure because of that.

So no point me wasting time if you aren’t interested in it.

Edit: sorry if tone seems bad, its not intentionally that way.