The short rant:

1. You don’t need to ask which distro, ask which mint version
2. The answer to #1 is MATE or xfce.

The longer rant:

I’ve been using xubuntu a bit, for guest OS in desktop VM, but I don’t really know if I like it enough to recommend it. It’s less rough than Arch, but so is 24 grit sandpaper.

Like others have said, there are many contenders for your use case, but mint stands out. I’m probably gonna go with mint once windows 10 stops getting updates. Mint or parrot. But TBH I don’t want to daily drive parrot either.

Which version of mint then? That’s really the question to ask. And if you ask me then I don’t care for all the bells and whistles, I don’t need animations or semi transparent windows. And when Ubuntu went with unity back in the day I walked. So I guess I want my GUI to stay the same. So I’d go with MATE or xfce.

All this talk about human trafficking, smh. Sad.

What about we sell his mother for a commission?

It’s death by a thousand cuts and nobody seems to care. Smh

If Europe gets into a war of course the US will help.

How sure are you of that? Sure, if Russia marches towards the Atlantic Ocean, but if Russia decides to create a security buffer zone in Finland? Or the Baltic countries?

NATO has only survived for as long because of the commitment of the US. Come January NATO is dead as well as a sovereign Ukraine.

I was going to say that the lil dude just got here, and should probably just shred the reddit trolling-for-karma mentality … then I saw their posting history. Maybe they’ll get the message when all their posts are below -80.

Sorry, I removed what seemed like a rather long tracking ID, but apparently you can’t load the page without it. Anyway I’ve updated the link for anyone else who’d like to know what we do with your car in Denmark if you speed.

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I don’t know what the other countries will do, but Danish police will auction off the car … and throw you in jail as well as taking your license and fining you 2000€.

“What if the car isn’t mine? What if it’s leased or borrowed?” I hear you ask. If it’s not your car, then you owe someone a car, because the police just sold the one you went more than 200km/h in, and the government kept the money.

Don’t believe me? Check out this guy who had his Lamborghini for less than a day (in Danish, use your preferred translation service) https://www.boosted.dk/koerte-228-km-t-i-danmark-nu-skal-hans-lamborghini-paa-auktion/

Of course, that’s a Skoda. The elastic band probably snapped.

I don’t know about 270, but I may have second knowledge suggesting that a sprinter can get an average of 160 across Denmark if it’s Friday evening and we’re playing Sweden in men’s football.

Also he’s doing 270 going into a stretch limited to 120. IDK what German traffic laws are like, but the image I have of Germany is that you guys have even harsher punishments than us in Denmark. If you did 270 in a 120 in DK, you’d get a 2000€ fine (15000DKK), as well losing both your license and your car. You might even get jail time.

What’s even worse is that as a foreigner (maybe not a Schengen citizen, but definitely Americans) we don’t trust you to pay the fine, so you’d be detained until you get the money. I’ve seen policeshows where foreigners are even driven to ATMs, and it seems a bit like extortion.

Not if you’re using a bridge.

You’re the one who got mad that I didn’t know that you live in China. You hadn’t told me, or given me any clues. I mean there’s 1.450 billion people who speak English either natively or as second language. 10 million of those live in China. That means there’s a 99.3% chance that a random English speaker doesn’t live in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population

But do go on, keep staying pissed at me for something you misunderstood. I never said that you (as in you, not one) or anyone else for that matter, should not buy a Chinese EV. I said that I wouldn’t, and gave my reasons why. In the meantime, while you stay pissed, I’ll continue to not own a Chinese EV, maybe while telling my students about what happened in early summer 1989 on Tiananmen Square, and how Winnie the Poo is treating the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

As I indicated by using first person singular in my comment, I was talking about me. What car you (second, singular) get is up to you.

While I did write “If a car has the option of spying on you[…]”, I hope my usage of “you” as an informal pronoun was clear. I do realize that I could have used the word “one” instead, or rewritten the sentence entirely. I wrote like I speak, and I unfortunately do not speak like an English professor.

Please remind me, where did you tell me that you live in China?

I’d buy an XPeng or a BYD or the like.

Well, good for you. Personally I’m not buying an internet connected Chinese car. If a car has the option of spying on you, and potentially be used in a hybrid attack, I’d prefer to get a car from a western manufacturer. And not Tesla either, Musk is too unstable and seems to be influenced by the same powers that has Trump’s ball in a vise.

My current car is an internet connected EV, but it sure isn’t Chinese or a Tesla.

That’s just inefficiently stupid. Don’t burn bridges, burn entire cities.

If you want to go down the blunt force road, don’t down vote manually, let a script do that … for you and your 10 closest alt accounts friends.

If you want to be a bit more sophisticated you have a bot run your alt accounts, commenting with short LLM generated content at random posts. And whenever your mark is active, you use one of these accounts to come at them. Maybe have your replies rewritten by your AI, so you don’t give it away by using the same phrases.

You can take it one step further, and analyse your marks interactions. Does a username pop up more than others consistently? Then your mark may have both poor OPSEC and an alt.

I was so psyched when it was announced that somebody had picked up the fallout series. Then I got FO3 and 4, and then I swore never to buy another Bethesda release. And I then bought a backup disc of the originals, because I’ll be damned if my kids will grow up and think that their father wasted his late teens playing Bethesda’s FPS versions.

Fun fact: allegedly you’re legally obligated to rip the noice excreting device from their dirty little paws and throw it into the ground.

I guess that you must be French then, because to me, as a Scandinavian, that man looks disgusted. Like he’s about to ask why he was handed battery acid for a refreshment.

I noticed that I had blown the front left speaker in my first car when bohemian rhapsody was missing vocals. I don’t remember when “a night at the opera” came out, but I’m going to be bold and say the 70s.