This is a straight-up national security issue for Taiwan. Its chip factories are an integral part of its defence strategy and it needs to be able to use them as leverage to survive.
The answer to why you weren't excluded but Russians are is simple: vae victis.
Some countries do things that others don't like. Other countries retaliate. But some retaliation is more effective than others.
I'm curious to know about the interactions that caused OP to post this meme.
If you installed it via your distribution's package manager, the maintainers should either push the package or backport the security fixes within the coming weeks.
I think many major instances prohibit NSFW communities.
Software is software. You're downloading shady software off the Internet anyway, but there's one key difference:
- Torrent sites (such as The Pirate Bay) usually have systems of trusted uploaders. These are marked with a green/purple skull next to the file in search results.
- A torrent with a large number of seeders (think: hundreds or thousands) is less likely to contain a virus because nobody honest would seed a malware torrent and it'd cost a lot to fake that many seeders across the world.
- Torrenting software verifies the integrity of downloaded data. It uses a cryptographic hash function for this so it's impossible for a seeder to send you a tampered file (that is different from the file you intended to download). When you use a torrent file or magnet link, it contains the hash of the file so if what you receive does not match the hash then the torrenting software will discard it.
Although I don't own and never will own an HP printer, I've found that I've never had to install printer drivers on Linux. Sometimes the printer is not automatically found or it gets forgotten and needs to be re-added, but other than that it really requires no setup at all. I'm not sure if this experience is common.
This is what crypto wallets recommend you do. I don't see why that's a bad solution for backing up.
Some people don't want their computer to be a challenge. They don't want to be able to notice the operating system at all. For most people, the operating system is a means to an end.
Daily reminder that you can opt out of Google's advertising "personalisation". They don't advertise this ability for obvious reasons.
Is it really that hard to do your own taxes? I was taught to do this in school and it's really not hard if all you have to do is write in how much money you made and then claim the standard deduction. If your taxes really are that messy then you can hire an accountant to do it, and they'll do it ten times better than any tax software could, because if the software could do it better then they'd bloody use the software.
Edit: was mostly referring to people who work a job and that's it, which is probably 80% of the population
NateNate60
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Imagine trying to sell a computer to some old lady with a subscription OS:
Salesperson proceeds to recommend a Chromebook or a Mac.
The technically-savvy would look for Windows 11 machines, those who could and know how would install Linux, others will buy a Chromebook or a Mac, and only the truly stupid would pay the subscription.