I run Deb testing, in the spring a change in Pipewire broke sleep/suspend for me, the upgrade came along with 100 other package upgrades. It took FOREVER to roll back just the right packages to the point where everything worked again, 0/10 would not recommend.

I'd rather be backseat.

After 500M net worth, security becomes a personal matter and protection of the law is lost. Murder of billionaire becomes legal and their assets are the bounty. They can sink their money into a personal army OR roll all excess over 500M into voluntary taxes!

Godamnit

I am quite preachy about it and am universally met with "but why does it matter?" The future is gonna suck.

If a user is that far down the technical literacy ladder, they do not need Debian, they need Ubuntu or Mint or one of a dozen other distros that prioritize UX over production.

Come to Toronto/The GTA, the lack of investment in public transit is on par with the rest of North America.

They suck to edit but you can create them in most Free/Open/Libre software. It's my favorite way to distribute drawings so that they print the same on every machine.

It's nice that an ad company lets us know when we might accidentally die but, yeah, not a first line of defense. Local government should be beating commercial sources to the punch every time vital information needs to go out.

I originally switched out of privacy concerns, not that MS or someone else was stealing my personal data and work directly but that it would just inadvertently get leaked with some massive cloud fuckup as seems to happen regularly.

Since then I prefer it just because I can run it on decades old hardware, it's consistent between different versions of the same Distro (W7 through to W11 gives me anxiety), and I don't have to worry about a hardware change invalidating a product key so I have to re-buy my damned OS. Shit, yeah, it's an ideological thing.

Yes! I have been running Zoneminder since 2020 with no complaints.

For first time/new users I would suggest one thing, try it in a VM first and take notes. Some of the settings take a little tweaking and when you have it all hammered out you can just follow your notes to set up your production machine. When I upgraded my server I was able to set up a brand new ZM instance with 8 cameras in about a half hour because I had my notes.

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