I can’t help you with full encryption after the fact, but if you do decide to do it, make a snapshot first. Clonezilla makes it easy, and you can encrypt it.

If anything goes wrong when you do the encryption, you can always roll back to your snapshot.

You may already know all that, but I thought I would mention it.

I use the same tool to make snapshot when I change OS and drives, and use the snapshot to make a VM. If I forgot anything in the new OS, it’s all their in the VM of my old OS.

Really? I always considered irfanview to be tolerable if I had to use windows but nothing special, and the licensing has issues.

Only ten years?

KDE, better then ever.

You need a Smart TV

No.

Nobody in their right mind connects their TV to the internet. If they do, well they are already fucked.

I would never give that clown a dime.

floatplane

With Linus? You couldn’t pay me to watch that.

Edit: I did grab a subscription to Nebula for a year for €25 because I like someone on there. Seemed reasonable for a whole year of everything they have, and I do like watching Legal Eagle these days.

YouTube is such a great source for adding skills and knowledge

Slowly though. Watching is wasting a lot of time, and nearly everyone on there stretches it out in the name of “content” and sponsers.

There are a few that don’t, but realistically, that knowledge is elsewhere. It’s a shame people don’t self host videos as much any more. I just embed them in my web page if I absolutely need to.

Or simply make the files available, which if you look around, a lot of them are out there, so download and watch at your pace, and delete when done.

got it. It is as simple as them adding the channel. It doesn’t have a lot of features, but it is serviceable.

Its done for me, there is nothing there I need to see.

Personally I think it’s time to just move on you tube is done.

But if it’s roku they can add the playlet channel. Youtube without ads.

Why? They can terminate you at any time why can’t they change terms at anytime?

Believe me, I like your optimism.

We’ve come a long way on environmental protection in the past half century

If you are talking about the US, it is actively dismantling those protections now. I mean look at the fact that they are still growing corn(!) to make ethanol to put in gasoline. What a waste.

I agree LA looks better now than in the 70’s, but even with all the effort it still is US’s smoggiest city for 25th time in 26 years.

But look at all the other places were the pollution is dust and heavy metals like the Salt Lake in Utah. All the water diversion, and climate change, is going to come to a reckoning. Look at the water system that feeds LA (Owens Lake), it is the largest human-caused dust storm sources in the United States. They are trying to fix it, but what can be done?

This is happening all over the world. I think we are well beyond being able to mitigate this.

Warmest artic temperatures ever, with more than double the global rate of temperature change. Melting of permafrost and ice at an all time record high rate. Lowest sea level ice, June snow cover extent is half what it was 60 years ago. 200 Alaskan watersheds are now orange with iron and other elements that are polluting them that were not there a decade ago. Whole communities are being relocated and we are just starting to see the effects. Something like 250 million people will be displaced from rising water by 2050. 45 million people were displaced in 2024 from heat, with a projection of 2.8 billion likely to become heat refuges. The worst part of both of those things is that also means crops are going to be displaced too.

I believe all of this will cause the wealthiest to see opportunity to extract and plunder instead of understanding the implications and trying to mitigate it. I believe people will be convinced that they need to take it before someone else does. People seem extremely stupid or selfish. It makes me wonder if we aren’t seeing long term covid brain at this point.

We could go on and on with environmental problems, and we are stating to see impacts like I mentioned before:

Youth and Young Adult mortality rates are increasing. Heat related mortality for people over 65 is up 85% since 2017. That’s half a million people a year from it being too hot to live where they grew up.

I think we are way past the point of no return.

All people will die, so does it really matter if its sooner than later? When the prospects of actually living are under the global control of the few? Their chances of having food, a stable climate, and freedom are getting reduced every year? When they will likely face servitude to those with wealth, a surveillance state, mass incarcerations, and if lucky simply become a wage slave?

Twenty years ago I might have agreed with you based on statistics. Now I don’t think so.

Since you mentioned infant mortality, for the first time in twenty years the rate is getting worse. Worth noting that in the US Mortality rates are especially high in states where laws were passed to restrict abortions after overturning Roe V Wade. In Mississippi there was actually an emergency declared when the rate nearly hit 10%. It skews the statistics, but the point is that people are making horrible decisions.

This is not the US alone, although they are leading the way in misinformation, anti science, and populism for power. Its a global phenomenon, and does not bode well for people at all. Diseases are coming back, war is back, and the consequences of global energy and food dependence are extreme compared to the past.

Globally, it is estimated that about 7 million people will die prematurely every year from air quality alone. That means in just 3 years, more people will die from breathing than in WWI. And we are not doing anything about it, in fact globally it is just getting worse.

We have breached the boundaries of climate change, freshwater use, ocean acidification, and biological diversity. There has never been a worse time on the planet than right now.

Edit: this doesnt even begin to cover the issues of chemical persistence or plastics in nearly everything including our bodies. Nevermind PFA’s and other forever chemicals.

Part of the issue isn’t necessarily any one of these things, but seen as a whole, there is little to no will to fix it. Profit matters, and those with the most profit are setting the rules.

1. So how often do you post and make the change you want to see?

2. Hmm.

3. Can you give an example of this “weak source or false claims” in the news here? I see the usual suspects when I look: Reuters, guardian, AP, BBC, Al Jazeera, etc.

I never browse all though, I only go to the 50 or so groups I belong to, and remember to sort by scaled once in a while.

I do believe there are more bots or at least propaganda accounts, or maybe people causing friction. Don’t know if its state sponsored or just a sign of the times.

He says its likely Greta.

No joke.

How the fuck do governments not at least check out the plan? It isn’t a secret: Theil is a moron about people and believes in the theory that people need to be controlled and monitored, but also believes that a single world government is bad.

Therefore the only solution (in his mind) is that HE monitor everyone because only HE knows best.

Exactly how?

Simply: Windows XP began the enshittification and it has only gotten worse since then.

I used duckduckgo for a long time, still a good choice. Now i am using that and Kagi.

The nice thing about either is you can use !bangs to search and get to specific sites quickly.

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs