Beyond just the pedophilia, his (Epstein) operation was largely one of socialising, and securing (probably coerced) introductions from people he helped facilitate and now held blackmail over.

e.g. using blackmail material on a Bill Gates to secure an introduction to another wealthy and influential individual, offering them a “massage” and then producing kompromat at a later date to bring them into his circle.

Now don’t get me wrong, everyone who found themselves in this position was a willing participant, not a victim - but I can understand how so many oligarchs eventually found their way into his little black book.

There are apparently OpenVPN profile you can import, but as I said in my earlier comment - I just couldn’t get it to work (connection attempts would just time out).

I still have like ~18 months of PIA left (joined under a 100% cashback offer), but will likely switch to Proton or Mullvad afterwards - as they both seem to work better under Linux from what I’ve read.

I’m sure over time I’ll tinker more under the hood over time, but for now - I’m just trying to ease myself into Linux with pre-configured installers when particular apps aren’t available through the Cachy Package Manager.

30-odd years of Windows usage has dulled my IT skills!

I barely know what I’m looking at! 😅

Pretty sure I tried poking around that file on Bazzite also to see if I could locate the RPM to try and do a manual terminal install - but gave up after a few minutes.

Sample size of 1, here.

Bazzite was my initial entry-point into Linux, but I bounced off it within 48 hours as its immutable nature made it impossible for me to install the native PIA VPN client and for the life of me I couldn’t get the OpenVPN to play nice.

Currently on CachyOS, and seems to run just fine - giving an end user just enough rope 😅

Plus it’s Arch underneath the hood too, so I can still cheekily say that I run Arch!

ETA: I wonder if/how long I would count as part of this Bazzite cohort?

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone; we already knew Americans were full of shit!

Ba-dum, pssh!

I can understand a banking app such as Chime* wanting to obfuscate whatever bugs or potential exploits they’ve come across and patched - to prevent users on older versions from being targeted; but the rest of those examples are utterly bullshit.

I put forward Duolingo as another egregious example of this bullshit:

It’s literally sad that the only hope for EA to become less scummy as a privately held company, than it was as a publicly traded company, is for the Saudi Arabian regime to proactively use them to win over gamers through the digital equivalent of ‘sports-washing’.

It’s depressing to think that we are at a point where EA could be considered the lesser evil in comparison.

Does it ever make you think that when her parents were having sex that one fateful night, they would later be able to look back upon it and say that they were making Whoopi?

My first ever job as a high school kid was stocking the shelves at Toys R Us; I have found memories of that place, and those people to this day.

Fuck Mitt Romney, I will never forgive him for this treachery.

Again, I think it’s mostly because it’s iOS - but Brave seems to be the only browser that allows both Picture-in-Picture and background play while also blocking ads.

Both Safari and Firefox display ads, and struggle with PiP.

Ah yes, it’s heil past nein!

I’m on iOS so my options are rather limited, but I’ve had decent luck using Brave. Is there anything that the others do that a browser wouldn’t?

I still have my X6, with the modular numpad you could stick to either side.

Although nowadays I only use it for my test bench at home. That thing was truly ahead of its time.

Be sure to invite all of your like-minded friends, as well as that weird one uncle who still believes in QAnon - it’s hole -some fun for everyone.

Don’t miss out, it’s going to be a blast!

Oh yeah? Well, I heard that the real Epstein List, the one implicating the Clintons, Soros and Obama (and not the fake one that’s like 30% Trump) is buried under one of those trees.

Git your shovels, boys!

Dude’s being sarcastic, you know that - right?

I think it has just as much to do with the decline in population, impacting overall demand, as it does with not seeing housing as an investment- but rather a depreciating asset.

In Australia, at least in terms of housing - those in the know, tend to want to avoid new builds due to the sheer number of cut corners, sub-par materials and lax regulations.

Homes made in the post-asbestos, pre-2000s are highly coveted as a result.

Honestly, should send them with AirTags or similar hidden inside and track their progress - would easily get to the bottom of who the culprits are.

Just have the recipients of the shoes return successfully delivered tags in a replay paid envelope for a refund/credit.