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I think maybe it's a short term thing. They're trying to expedite getting off wikidot and having a read only copy of their data is the fastest way to do that. I'm assuming the plan would be to then transition to a write enabled implementation as soon as possible. That's my best guess anyway.

That would be incredibly unlikely. As a general rule the US military does not use foreign made gear, particularly anything from China. More likely it's human error, someone fucked up the maintenance.

It's because of how bifurcated the American economy (and society) has become. The absolutely gargantuan wealth inequality leads to a situation that for the majority of Americans they've been experiencing a recession for years at this point if not decades, while for the wealthy things are going great. The US economy is literally being propped up by the continued funneling of wealth from the poor to the rich. The problem is the poor are rapidly approaching the point where they have no more wealth to steal. The middle class is almost entirely drained, and even some of the lower end of the upper class is starting to feel squeezed. It's not sustainable and something is going to give one way or another. The economy can't continue to function when over half the population can no longer afford basic necessities.

They probably could have kept the plates spinning for another decade at least, but then a moron got put in charge of everything and started replacing people who were greedy and corrupt with people that were greedy, corrupt, and barely smart enough to remember how to breath. This recent shutdown in particular is very much going to force the issue as all the people reliant on SNAPP and Medicaid (or is it Medicare, I can never remember which is which) are going to find themselves unable to meet their basic human needs from their meager salaries (if they're lucky enough to be employed). Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised to see an increase in theft and rioting if this doesn't get resolved real damn soon (might I suggest stealing the tacky gold plated shit from your nearest Mar-a-lago or Trump affiliated business). Even more unfortunately that might be exactly the excuse Trump is looking for to declare martial law. This is what nearly half a century of Reaganomics has gotten us. Maybe we can finally convince some of these idiots that cutting taxes on the rich and removing regulations on corporations does absolutely nothing good.

That's the great misconception and lie of Social Security. People think it's like a government run 401k, that you're "investing' in some retirement account every paycheck. That's not at all how it actually functions though. Social Security is two entirely independent things. First it's a benefits program like SNAPP or Medicaid. In that regard Congress votes every year on how much budget they're going to allocate towards paying people Social Security. Literally everyone receiving Social Security cheques in the following year are reliant on Congress deciding to allocate enough money to make sure those cheques don't bounce. Secondly it's an income tax. The two are not connected in any way. The amount of Social Security income tax that the federal government collects each year has absolutely no bearing on the amount of funding that Congress allocates for Social Security in the coming year.

Let that sink in.

Social Security is the world's biggest Ponzi scheme. Always has been. That's a huge part of why a lot of Republicans, particularly older ones (like ones around retirement age) are hand wringing about falling birth rates. Social Security always counted on the idea that there would be more people working and paying into Social Security than the number of people currently collecting Social Security. In a country with a positive population growth that would always be true. It ceases to be true the moment you have a negative population growth rate though.

It's very popular to the point where multiple other distros are starting to offer its patched kernel on their distro. It's very focused on gaming performance, particularly around Steam and Proton.

Yeah that should be completely fine then. Try dual boot, if you don't have any issues you can always go 100% Linux at some point in the future and in the meantime the old Windows partition can provide some amount of reassurance if something does go wrong.

Is it a newer Nvidia GPU? If so I believe it pretty much works the same these days. It was mostly the older Nvidia GPUs that seemed to have a lot of problems.

So the standard setup these days. The regulation won't be used to actually regulate the industry but instead will be used to set up a series of roadblocks that protect the major incumbent players from any smaller competition.

Pretty sure I wouldn't get donations from Aipac to start but if they're stupid enough to donate to me I don't see why I shouldn't spend their money and go about my business.

The reason not to is because of the optics. People will always assume anyone you're accepting money from you'll show favoritism towards either consciously or unconsciously. That is generally how ~~bribery~~campaign finance works these days. Large corporation, state, or billionaire "donates" to a politician, and in exchange they get to write whatever legislation they want or get the politician to vote for or against anything they want.

Cachyos seems like the general recommendation. Haven't used it myself, but I've used its kernel so I guess that counts for something.