Nice try, Mr AI.

Meanwhile, as of fiscal year 2026, the US budget deficit is projected to be 5.8% of GDP.

How about the bees, birds and aquatic life?

You don’t have to be 1337 to install arch, but you do need to be pretty 1337 to keep it running. I use arch btw, but I also use Mint because I don’t always have time for Arch’s shit.

A reminder that Mossad’s motto is: ‘War by deception’

So, you’re the bee killer. Bifenthrin is banned throughout the EU because of its impact on pollinators. It is toxic to birds and highly toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects. Recent studies in mice suggest bifenthrin exposure contributes to the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease and is linked to autism. I hope you don’t let your kids play around it.

Use Mint and you’ll be fine.

Oh my god. Do people really live like this? I’m going to be sick…

Let me put it like this: Imagine you’ve won this beautiful pristine house full of potential and it cost you absolutely nothing. You can rennovate and decorate and do anything you want with it. Endless possibilities.

Instead, the first thing you decide to do is call up Larry Ellison and invite him to personally come and shit on your kitchen floor. And one day you forgot his shit was still on the floor and you stepped in it and now Larry’s shit is all through your house. And then the phone rings and it’s Larry because he’s been monitoring your house and now his lawyers are suing you for stepping in his shit.

In addition to VirtualBox being a fucking awful piece of software, Oracle is the absolute antithesis of Linux - anti-user, anti-freedom. Why would you put that closed-source, privacy-trampling, proprietary bullshit on your pristine Linux install? . Use KVM virtualization instead, or even a more modern docker-ish like solution.

Finally, some sense.

Excellent OS choice - great for noobs and veterans alike.

If you’re running Virtualbox on Arch you deserve everything you get.

Artix is great if you don’t mind Arch. Devuan is great if you like lightweight Debian (server install). MXLinux is nice if you want Debian with a usability/UI focus. As for security focused, I don’t know what that means. A machine is either secure or it’s not. Chuck SELinux on there if it helps you sleep at night.

They say it like it’s a good thing.

Not at work. Certainly not.

No it’s not. It’s very relevant - it’s the reason I’ve never recommended the software to anyone outside of close friends.

outside US and UK (and few others)

If we’re considering just the US, Canada, UK, NZ and Australia, that’s at least 470 million people for whom the name is problematic. As an enthusiastic Australian user, there’s no way I would recommend a program called GIMP to my higher-ups.

Unlike the towns of Bra or Fuck in Austria, the acronym GIMP was chosen specifically because of its edgy double meaning.

It’s not just awkward for Americans, but for the entire English speaking world - at least 470 million people. How can anyone seriously recommend a business use a program called GIMP? It is a massive hurdle to adoption in the corporate world. They should change the name, or at least create a business-oriented alias.

Agreed. XML has been dead for at least 10 years. Still, at least it’s not YAML.

Lidar. China uses this to track aerosol and carbon dioxide distribution in the atmosphere. Likely some similar US-based scientific monitoring. Almost certainly not Elon - he hasn’t tweeted about it and there’s no X branding.