IriYan

Have you tried/installed nvme-cli and/or xnvme

I wonder if your issues come from buggy nvme modules

How to choose a browser - see link in bottom

If MS was to sell less licenses than there out there, or claims more than actual, I would suspect there would a tax-ivasion liability against them. So if they have claimed sales of 3bil then they brag of 4bil users, someone would notice.

On the other hand, in terms of anonymity of browsing you’d rather be identified as one of the many with the exact same setup than being unique. TB actually used this to even the mozilla version that was most popular, and even advised not to adjust the default screen size or window size to merge with the “croud”.

But you have a valid concern, when rags come out and say 97% don’t use linux/bsd when in fact 14% do.

Using vanilla ff or chrome is the worst possible way to protect your personal information. https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers

I participated in clinic defense and pro-choice organizing from the late 80s till 09, and the most vivid memory was a case from Loyola Univ. (Baltimore) where a student had gotten pregnant and admins/clergy found out about it. They advised here on getting an abortion quietly or leave the dorms and school as it was a bad example for catholic women/students. The hypocrisy of marketing a myth while clergy having no moral constraints and were more interested in the school’s reputation and fame was enough to tell people what this is all about.

Why are republicans against choice? It fits the rhetoric of conservativism (although Ge.Bush the father had cleared out that under his administration the then status quo was not to be challenged, clearly for choice) BUT!! A vast majority of democrats are catholics, and some are more traditional jews, and they are all against choice, among other religious groups within the democratic mainstays (Maryland & Massachusets especially). So republicans use this as a wedge to break up democrat’s votes to shift anti-choice voters their way. Otherwise they wouldn’t give a penny on morality, since morality is cheap against the interests they serve.

Why are democrats pro-choice? Because half of the republican voters are women, and women tend to get sensitive on an issue that absolutely has to do with a productive woman’s choice. Given the population of the US, nearly half the female voters are not of productive age, but together with men they have a say on what productive women should do with their bodies.

A rich woman can have a baby or can always get a safe abortion no matter how illegal it becomes. A poor woman may not even have enough to travel to the nearest legal state to get one, if she could afford and there was no subsidy.

Fascists always locate a powerless or less powerful target group to mobilize the powerful against an easy enemy they can win and gain political power and legitimacy. In this case it is economically challenged productive women who are against the rest of society on moral grounds. Neither democrats or republicans will go out of their way not to lose them.

Representative pro-capitalist anti-communist democracy: It is a dirty job but someone has to do it.

I hate to burst your bubble but when it comes to 6-7digits of cash at stake what does “trustworthy” even mean? You mean between millions and his word to you he will choose his word? His previously stated values and principles?

The guy who made waterfox seemed pretty nice, friendly, committed to the cause, then sold the project to a data-miner, and so did the honest people who made startpage, the trustworthy privacy minded search engine? Now they see waterfox is independent again and not part of the big multi-natinal data miner.

Mozilla once again made a sudden change that breaks your previous profile or other functionality and if you dare roll back the upgrade your profile has been ruined in transition, so you are forced to start from scratch reconfiguring, setting up you std tabs, bookmarks, history … Same stuff with TB, addons/plugins disabled, new “features” added, whether you trust them or not, added dependencies … you roll back you lose.

The google chrome-engine is so intrusive in the way it runs, degoogled or not, it is hell to have on a system. Maybe inside a vm without anything else other than specific browser session may be ?ok? for fluff work, nothing private I hope.

The naivity of people to accept and sometimes welcom large corporations producing FOSS is what got us to this mess, and I don’t mean users, but devs, distro managers, … if it is legally FOSS it is OK, even if it is a huge trojan horse manufactured by corporations to penetrate an other wise safe and secure system. FOSS - no corporate involvement - may be it, but will it boot? LinFound. gets millions and millions to have board seats to influence kernel, and it seems to be dancing with their wishes.

I’ve found it to be surprisingly stable

It sounds like you have used it extensively then, because the myth is spread by people who never tried.

Arch users HAVE to know

They do know this is a popular myth spread around by the antiquities of debian/mint/ubuntu users who wait a few years for Arch users to locate any bugs.

I’ve had to switch to mint.

That bad, huh? I am sorry, I hope you get better.

What’s a distro

an Americanization of the word distribution (software that is).

you guessed it, I use joborun, like arch without systemd, runit optionally s6/66