Same. I've always added Ubuntu to my list of "where to start Linux" with a suggestion to move on once you get comfortable with how Linux works, but I think I'll be removing it completely from my recommendations.

I was mostly annoyed at the constant ads for their support in my server every time I logged in, so I moved over to Debian on that. Desktop was changed later on to fedora/opensuse for some reason.

If I may put on my conspiracy theory hat:

With all the DOGE-starlink-russia shit I've been reading about, I wouldn't be surprised if Russia has a data pipeline directly to the US government, no Musk required. I would guess it would be more of a "he might tell the US government what/how we know" which would require coming up with a new golden pipeline.

Kinda like how the Cheeto Taco unwittingly showed the world the US satellite capabilities in his first term by showing a picture. There's a lot of information Musk could tell the US about his visits with Putin, where if he was in Russia, the US is stuck guessing what made it out and what Russia has access to.

From the article, I wish them the best but this line of thinking is not the Linux way:

The first app I installed on Ubuntu (on both my machines) was Chrome browser. While Chromium, the open source version of the browser, is available in Ubuntu's App Center (its app store), the official Google version is not.

If you're wanting to give Linux a try, you gotta be willing to let go of the Windows way. Chrome is not better than chromium because Google. Don't complain that a specific app is hard to get running if you aren't willing to try the alternatives, especially if there's literally a Linux version maintained by the same developer

Sounds like you're looking for something sitting around soul music or smooth R&B

Sounds like this is a no brainer to me. I'm a step parent to a brilliant kid who's father is a complete narcissist, and I'll tell you this, if a parent tells you to dislike the other parent, don't trust them without evidence. Make your own decision, and listen to the parent that let's you make it. A caveat is that a better parent probably won't tell you all of the bad things they've had to deal with, and it's important to remember that everyone is human and makes mistakes.

It's ok to have a relationship with both parents, and it sounds like you know which parent to trust. That doesn't mean you need to cut your mom out of your life, you just get to have a different kind of relationship with her. I'm a fan of honesty, if either parent does something you don't like, tell them so and ask them to stop. If they won't, you've got a real good answer as to who you want to spend your time with.

(I'm not actually this old, but I'm old enough that I've used this one)

Exactly, if I bring bullshit to a party, and the host tells everyone to eat it, I'm not going to associate with anyone who doesn't tell them to fuck off, even though I brought it to the table.

Yeah, but would you want a law firm who caved to obvious bullshit that you might have been involved in creating to represent you?

Ok, how about we turn this around since you have very high standards for what you consider an accomplishment. What have you succeeded at?

Let her have her last few years of relevancy.

So what's your opinion on Andrew Tate?

You could check the Wikipedia entry for her, there's a few accomplishments in there. in any case, I'd say attempting to bring food to starving people under death threats and attempts for doing so makes any of her attempts at doing something, whether the goal is accomplished, far better than whatever you've got going on.

I'm not seeing nextcloud mentioned in the article. If they are moving to nextcloud, I wish them the best. It's great for my personal use, but from my experience it's lacking in what I would expect in a work environment. With a government entity coming to use them, it would be fantastic to see some improvements on them because they're almost there.