The value in LLMs is in the training and the data quality… so it is easy to publish the code and charge for access to the data (DaaS).

So you would click accept on my self-signed https website? Want some land in Florida?

Personally I would have used a sarcasm escape: /s

Stable (Debian) means that when you get it working it is less likely to break when you update. A broken installation on a server is quite stressful. Downside for desktop/laptop is that it may not support the latest games and hardware.

Ubuntu is probably more stable than Mint, but less stable than Debian. Which you choose may be more personal preference than objective value.

Yes, but if you are happy with Ubuntu don’t worry about it.

• Open-source purity
• Stable
• Traditional
• Upstream sources for much of Ubuntu

This is why they invented emoticons and emoji. On the Internet, no-one can tell you are smirking unless you tell them

Mint loaded Steam via the package manager and it worked out of the box for me. There have been some games I had to try different versions of Proton with, but I have never found that to be not true for some games.

Suggesting that her risk is going to drop by dropping soothing words for the lefty radicals falls to acknowledge the danger from righty radicals. Having the Cheeto pasting a target on her back means that such words will merely inflame the right even more.

Awww. /s

Web search engine of your choice.

Keep in mind that every open source project scratches a different itch… they don’t exist because people wanted to collaborate for collaborations sake… they exist because someone (or some people) wanted a particular software capability. This means that many of them started because one person had that itch, but there are millions of itches so the projects that need your help very likely won’t fit into a convenient “top 100” list. Think about what you are interested in and search for open source software related to that topic.

The best approach is to not run untrusted software. Second best is to be a security expert and run it under the control of a debugger and analyze each instruction before it runs.

This is probably not what you wanted to hear, but every sandbox has flaws and software that is written by someone aware of those flaws can conceivably exploit them.

Tools like firejail are often useful early to mid software life cycle… before exploits become common for them. But there eventually comes a point where a zero day exploit is released and your peace of mind leads you to think you are safe. Their utility varies over time, and it is the nature of zero day exploits that they surprise you.

I think flatpak is a configuration management tool… not a security sandbox… but really the question comes back to what is your use case… do you want to become a security consultant, or are you just looking for a bit more protection from common exploits? There is no magic bullet… even dealing with the minutiae of locking down specific system calls will not protect you perfectly yet it can significantly increase the hassle of onboarding new software. Simply relying on signed software packages most of the can reduce the chance of encountering malicious software significantly over using unsigned packages if you are an ordinary computer user… and getting wrapped up in security issues when you are not aiming to be an expert can just add overhead to your life without making you significantly safer. Beware of the rabbit hole… it can feed your hypochondria rather than protect you if you let the wolf in through the front door and hope the locks scattered around will stop it from harming you.

seeing this will almost certainly top whatever stress she thought she had before.

I wasn’t aware that ABC was the government. They may be acting like Trump’s personal toadies, but I am pretty sure they are a private organization.

Vasectomy is like inflation… when it is zero the value we assume is described doesn’t go up or down.

Odd…

Edit /etc/default/grub to include a timeout so the grub menu will be displayed before the default OS is run.

whoosh!

In my view, the choice is about whether you are better off with her or alone, including the financial implications of divorce.

While there may be “other fish in the sea”, that is a poor basis for deciding whether a marriage is worth saving, and it will likely bite you in the divorce if it comes up.

Keep in mind that you will have to reconstruct your relationships with your family and friends along the way… which will likely be easier if at first you don’t have a new partner.

Good luck!

I don’t know… but it was what precipitated their last exit from using Linux, and it is a defunct, insecure platform that should be unnecessary these days.

Sorta. If you put a FAT32 disk or sd card into a Linux system and mount it, it will ignore case because of the way the filenames are stored in that filesystem. However, there are a lot of important features you lose working on filesystems like that, so really it should be reserved for sneakernet with other operating systems.

I don’t suppose you repeated the mistake of trying to get Flash working this time?

Glad it is working for you. There a lot of fascinating software options in Linux… but expecting to be able to run arbitrary Windows software on it is risky, so when you don’t drag your history with you it is usually a pleasant experience.