Compliance with sanctions from the US and EU IIRC

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Write yourself some package manager hook scripts that fire off root snapshots before package upgrades or installation. I keep like 10 of those in addition to my scheduled system snapshots. It makes rolling back a borked update trivial in case I don't have time to fix something that went wrong before important work needs to happen.

Separate partition or btrfs subvolume is my preference, that way I can take homedir snapshots on a schedule (every hour or two) separate from my rootfs snapshot schedule.

Nixon certainly didn't help, that's when Republicans really ramped up stoking discord for political gain. Our decision to get involved and then dig ever deeper into the Vietnam shit sandwich derailed so much potential social progress.

Not to my knowledge. The US is it's own special flavor of carrier-specific phone hell.

Look up the exact model of the phone then check GSMArena or a similar site to see which bands it supports - then check to see which bands your carrier requires.

Also, in the US I usually recommend eBay or swappa for phones - their buyer protections are robust and it's almost trivial to return the phone if there's an issue that isn't disclosed in the sale listing. Buying used/refurbed things on Amazon is a crapshoot in my experience.

It would have cost you nothing not to post this

They should have taken this approach 20+y ago

Fabricated working class sympathy

Dude looked at the Nixon admin's response to political opposition and said "yeah that's a good way to go!" 🤦‍♂️

I usually keep a second kernel (LTS or my own manually built package) around in case of driver regressions like this. Occasionally you'll see issues in the firmware package as well, Intel WiFi in particular seems to experience more regressions than you'd expect. If you want to help get things like this fixed faster collect log data and file bug reports before you downgrade so they can filter upstream to the driver maintainers.

I watched it again a few years ago and it's still pretty good

I moved my elderly mother to ChromeOS and I no longer have to deal with the IT burden of supporting whatever she installed or broke this week. Move your parents to Linux if you truly enjoy being an on call unpaid helpdesk

I work from home, I haven't worn pants other than Thai fisherman wrap and tie pants in like 3y

Well his great great great grandchildren's yacht collections aren't going to pay for themselves you know

Early fascism is pay to win, rich people love it

Just stay awake until you're exhausted, problem solved