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Their pocketbooks were morons for three generations, too.

A generation seems very generous. The only path back to US hegemony I see is Fascism: we've burned our bridges and I don't think the world will be willing to work with us for a long time. But I don't even think the current batch are interested in US hegemony.

Honestly IMO the big threat to them comes from the right. They've spent a generation cultivating violence and gun culture in their own followers.

I think it's an accident, but not a surprise, that the recent Trump assaignation attempts were all right wing. The left has no monopoly on ADHD and depression diagnoses. And they teach their folks conspiracy thinking.

worth exactly a much as you paid for it.

It's mostly right, though. Except that a platform often comes with best practices that can be easier to follow for things that need to be updated quickly, like security.

There's little reason to think you'll need to. Most anything you'll want to do you can use Linux native apps

Thanks. This helps for thinking about it.

I haven't used latex in 20+ years, so it's not real fresh for me but this looks like a great alternative.

35 snaps installed and the only real pain is with the 2 web browsers.

The only places I've felt the pain were firefox, chrome, and eclipse. I'll check later to see what snaps are installed but the sandbox is mostly not noticed. The main issue is that the app with this biggest attack surface (Firefox) is also the one I explicitly want to access my whole system.

Chrome I only installed because ff didn't work, but it was no better.

It's so easy to use openjdk. I think the lesson is stop using oracle

Idk, I thought we were pretty far from the current level of conversation.

If it's connected to a network it's not enough that it's an internal tool. Don't open yourself up to a coworker executing code on your machine as you.