Implying they don’t talk funny all the time :p

I guess it should be overwhelmingly average.

Food being cheap != cheap food being the norm

Spez announces they won’t tolerate competing astroturfing, only shareholder-approved bots will remain.

It does, it’s a very weird thing if you’re not used to it, you’re not dumb or anything. I recognize it’s a completely alien concept, there is no analogue in English, and it stacks on top of the singular and plural "you"s being different and having gendered words making it extra difficult to fully conjugate a sentence for speakers of languages that lack those features. But 90% of the time the meaning gets across anyway and we don’t care :) (unless you’re French /j)

Italian has a similar thing, where it uses the “her” (“Lei”, often implied and capitalised when explicit) pronoun conjugation as a formal structure, regardless of the person’s gender. From what the other Spanish commenters have said I would say it differs from it in that it conveys respect more than kindness, so it would sound weird in your context - but it might also be because I would translate the “command” version in the 2nd person plural and this only applies to the singular.

It used to be used with your parents not that long ago, that is almost completely gone now but it is still very common when talking to your teachers, businesses, officers, old people, in letters, etc. It is also the default between strangers, but that has been slowly changing since the 2000s. It’s called “dare del lei” (lit. “To give the her”), and “possiamo darci del tu?” is a common question to “handshake” use of the regular 2nd person.

Italian: “Per favore, aiutateci ad impilare le sedie alla fine della giornata”

Direct translation aside from “aiutateci” which means “help us” to make it more of a friendly request than a command - the verb goes into the indefinite form so it’s not “aimed” at anyone. I think “lezione” (lesson) would work more naturally than “giornata” (day) as that usually means either sunset or when you go to bed

But hey, at least both floods and droughts are becoming more common which is great for crops!

Sorry but both points are irrelevant, nonprofit foundations can still be forced to turn over user information. That is part of following the law so nothing that would need to be hidden to auditors, unless you were talking about encryption audits which is completely besides the point

All your phone number provides is that you have ever used signal? Not what tower you’re connected to and therefore approximate realtime location? Your full identity via your telco? Social graph and history of your calls and texts?

I’m not saying it’s their fault or that they are volunteering any information, but that’s how it is for any US-based corporation (doesn’t matter if it’s a nonprofit, any legal entity that can be subpoenaed)

I really don’t get the big “use signal” push at this point in time because even if it’s private and the encryption is solid, it’s a fucking American company. It’s so easy for letter agencies to get information on their users from them, don’t you realize that they can’t refuse to give out your number if they ask for it and that once they have that your identity and location are immediately and thoroughly compromised? If you are subject to US jurisdiction and could be seen in any way as opposing its government, I really don’t think you should be using it.

The Caps Lock LED being unresponsive is a good indicator the CPU is locked up hard. USB keyboards don’t send interrupts like PS/2 so the bar for operation is slightly higher, but it still signals something is very wrong with the system

Does your machine have a PS/2 port by chance? That should give you magic keys when USB keyboards won’t.

Does the previous boot log show normal or error lines when it happens?

What do you see as its advantage(s) over other Arch derivatives?

Yes, but support changes depending on your router. Not many in the consumer market support it, but you can run OpenWRT on either a supported router or a Linux box with at least two interfaces - a usb adapter works if you’re on a budget, and ethernet+WiFi also counts. I would suggest looking into VPN providers that support Wireguard, as that’s in my experience both faster and more reliable than OpenVPN.

For commercial alternatives you can just buy and import a wireguard conf file into, I know MikroTik routers support it and I believe GL.iNet does too. I’m pretty sure there are more, hopefully people can contribute their experiences.

I wouldn’t recommend TOR for this usecase btw, you’d be adding a lot of latency when you don’t need the additional anonymity layer.

Set swappiness to 5 or something similar, or disable swap altogether unless you’re regularly getting close to max usage

Regulating tech companies, not tech users right?

…right?

Yeah but we’re talking about API tools, not web browsers. People are using postman to see JSON, XML, or whatever horrible format the devs on the other side chose to use, not to render HTML graphically. If you query an HTML page using curl, you should get the HTML back, I don’t see what’s the problem

Testing if the current shell can execute something does not require looking at the installed packages, there are portable ways to do that

whereis is not a Bash built-in so it may itself not be installed, plus it exits 0 and returns output even on no match requiring additional logic/processing. which or command are more robust choices for this usecase