LOL. You made my day!

The thing is EV owners have more money left for food.

Or, in my case, cyclists - a am mid-fifty now, and never hada car. When I feel the need to smile, I sum up the money I have saved this way.

The terms on the right to use user data in section 4.1 are also a bit surprising. I’d expect that from a social network like Facebook, but not from a text editor.

Oh, and I suggest to search the Arch wiki for suggestions for Linux software that match what you want to do. The packages named there are usually available in other major distros, too!

That also happens to be good advice if you want to reduce addictions that are caused by “addictive by design” platforms and parasocial media.

In a nutshell, it is like controlling smoking: Not doing it at all is often easier and costs much less energy, than controlling the extend of usage.

One reason for this is that such a decision shifts your sub-conscious fous from "Should I do this on Linux or Windows??“ to: “How do I do this in Linux - or what might I enjoy doing instead?”

Looking at young people and having sad thoughts about their future - feeling we owe them something I can’t give them.

My feeling is that might be a lack of choice here. So, just my 0.00002 cents, to supply you with a few more options:

• Just use Debian. It is boring but it will work.
• Or, Tumleweed has been named. But it is not maximally stable. Better, use Tumbleweed in a VM on top of OpenSuSE leap. That way, you have both superb stability and a very current system.
• You could also sell your nvidia card (let’s be honest, it probavly will only bring you grief), and get a AMD radeon which is fully supported by a libre kernel. Then, you can install Guix on it. Then you have a truly reproducible, very lean and organized system.
• If dropping the nvidia card sounds too extreme for you, you can also install Debian, and install Guix as a package manager on top of it. That will work because the Debian kernel supports the hardware. But don’t forget that NVidia is a nuisance, often. Well, you might have luck.
• Let’s say you are short on money and you don’t want a system that consumes too much RAM, since that has gotten expensive, man. So, you could get Debian with XFce as Desktop environment. Or, even leaner, you could get ICeWM.
• Or in case you want a very fast Lisp-based window manager with very fast, manual tiling, try StumpWM, say, on Debian.
• Or, if you want an automatic tiling WM, give i3wm or sway a try. Or GNOME with paperWM extension.
• GNOME would also run on Ubuntu, or on Mint. Actually, it is all Debian under the hood, mostly. Just easier to install.
• Or you want a privacy-focused Distro. Try Trisquel.
• Or, you just want to keep it simple, perhaps. In that case, I’d recommend Debian. Or, perhaps for the start, Debian-derived distro that is easy to install. There are plenty.
• But when you want to have it even simpler, get rid of the nvidia card. This really simplifies things.

Accusation in a mirror

I want that one:

How is the distro called?

Can you explain why? I am from Germany … we don’t have that kind of pickup.

But when Copilot can share it, it was already exposed?!

Do you have a picture?

Yeah I think it is a bit optimized for comfort.

What do they mean by using the word “confidential” ? Considering the word in computing means something like “technically strongly protected against unwanted access by third parties” ?

Debian is also one of the most secure distributions in terms of user control and security against vulnerabilities, since it is the same OS that runs most of the servers in the world - and therefore gets very quick and reliable security updates.

How would SuSE Tumpleweed in a VM on top of OpenSuSE Leap look? (That is a system which is a very stable base (a bit like Debian) but with a very current rolling release edition on top of it - which is a great solution for combining productivity (shit just works) with a highly actual development environment.)

Which one is GNU Guix?

Guix is enthusiastic, principled, lean, very reliable, it is rolling release, completely defined and automatically built from source, but with cached binary standard packages. You have something like Python’s virtual environments in a terminal/shell, but with any distro package, and you can go back to any old version.

You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don’t want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn’t car dependent or you’re gonna have a Bad Time™.

This. The two most important places are the home and the workplace. It is ideal if average daily commuting is less than one hour. But you can factor in that healthy humans positively need about one hour of daily excercise per day, so you can subtract that as gym time.

Everything else flows from chosing the right places and making it a priority to be able to get there either by bike or public transport.

Having done that, you will invariably find that you do not spend more time on errands and getting around than people which own a car. Inhabitants of Copenhagen or Amsterdam do not spent more time commuting than inhabitants if Houston or Los Angeles.

It is also great to chose a place with a community which has local social interactions. Most humans need that, too.

I live in Munich.

I bike to work. It is only 14 kilometers (about 9 miles).

If the road is to icy to cope with studded tyres, I take the fast commuter train… it is a tad slower, because bikes are often more efficient.

BTW I have doing that since the last 15 years and the last five jobs, in five towns or cities. That may shock you, but I am 58, and never had a car.

To go to places farther away, I use the train. We have a decent train system here (though it’s not as good as Japan’s or Switzerland’s - these countries lack bribe money from the car industry.)

I use the train for travel and vacation. I have been in a large part of Europe by train, including Greece. For example, in the last years, me and my partner traveled to Scotland, Netherlands, Croatia and Slovenia, and to Denmark - by night train.

BTW it also saves a ton of money. Cars are fucking expensive. In the last ten years, I spent about 3000 € on bikes (I have two, a normal trecking bike and a recumbent one), and about 1200 € on professional maintenance (I repair and clean most stuff myself, but I let look a bike mechanic for it every year, for safety and because it saves time and unplanned repairs). So, my costs are about 420 € per year.

I am coming more and more to the belief that Trumpism and the world-wide rise of the far right is to no small part a kind of fossil industry endgame. Virtually all of these far-right goverments try to block the transition to renewable electricity and electric vehicles.

And they are funded in no small part by the fossil energy industry. That industry knows it has no future in democratic societies. So they seek to destroy democracy - using fascist playbooks from the 1930ies.

Our world is more similar to Mad Max than we want to realize.

Here another article on this: http://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/gemini.html (written in 2020)