This is the way. Money will always get peoples’ attention.

Russia has had its ass kicked with western hand-me-downs. Once they roll out the real kit, the whole thing will be over within days.

The cruelty is the point. They’re doing this to intimidate people and they enjoy the suffering they’re causing.

This is the correct answer. Also, try to find areas where there is a labour shortage. Those might not be the most attractive options but it may be a way to get a stable job with a decent income.

The people who call you girly are idiots. Having said that, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being girly. I much prefer that to toxic masculinity.

Large corporations don’t buy small companies to make better products. They buy them to eliminate the competition.

The main advantage Facebook has is the network effect. Everybody’s on there so it makes little sense to go anywhere else. That will be very hard to overcome no matter how good the alternatives get.

Just when you think they couldn’t possibly get any more devious.

If you disregard some minor hiccups, like the civil war, the multiple colonial wars, the famines, the purges, the gulag and other such trivialities.

You mean violent overthrow of the existing system and establishment of a totalitarian empire? That’s sure going to help.

And they can’t even spell.

Use sunscreen.

There’s probably some lightweight Linux distro you can get to run on it. It could be used for some edge computing, like Pihole.

Mint is still a great choice if just for the ease of installation. I agree they’re lagging behind a bit in the transition to Wayland but for most users that’s not really a big issue. Mint also has one of the largest communities so getting support will be easier. To me Mint is still an excellent choice for getting started with Linux. I’ve been using it for years and I see no reason whatsoever to switch.

If you’re anti-Antifa, you’re fa, as in fascist. It’s really as simple as that.

Al-Sisi. Modi is certainly working on it.
And would you seriously claim Iran and the Emirates are democracies?

Ah, how silly of me. How dare I smear great Leader Putin like that? I will refer myself to gulagreeducation camp post haste.

BRICS is a dictator’s club. They hate each other and don’t trust each other one wit. It’s one of Donnie Poopypants’ great “achievements” to actually bring them together.

Thanks.

I have no idea what any of those things are. Which is not to say, you shouldn’t post this here, but a bit of context would be nice.