Sure, this time it only affected Windows computers, but Crowdstrike has also broken Linux installs this year:

https://stackdiary.com/crowdstrike-took-down-debian-and-rocky-linux-a-few-months-ago-and-no-one-noticed/

https://forgejo.org/faq/#is-there-a-roadmap-for-forgejo

And with topgrade you can even upgrade flatpaks and your distros repos in one go

Ghost is open source. You can selfhost. It’s just that aggressively advertising their (paid) hosting services on the official website

Which is why the comment you where replying to specified

in civilised countries

The implication beeping that the US is not. Because in a lot of other countries surprise clauses in your T&C’s is illegal

If you don’t want to do that, then you can buy a bootable drive (for example here: https://www.shoplinuxonline.com/mint21-usb.html)

Using a different tool to create a bootable drive is just a part of installing any operating system, not just Linux. If you ever need to install windows on a pc that doesn’t have it installed you will see the same process.

Warning: the holographic cheese may contain (non toxic) glue

Luckily they don’t have to switch. Your good friends from the European union have a solution for you (And the latest beta for whatsapp features the skeleton for their implementation of that standard)

Technically they don’t even have to give you the option to refuse cookies if they have a legitimate interest to collect them. The idea being that if a company’s business model depends on them collecting a certain data point then you shouldn’t be able to get the service for free.

All of this means, that if a site offers you to refuse cookies they have a legitimate interest on then it’s probably bullshit and they are just using the general confusion to get more data than nessesary.

They are the old fashioned menu. So “file”, “edit” etc.

You can get it by pressing Alt. I’m not sure why there are icons in the menu though.

https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/