I’d offer people bargains to enrich themselves at the expense of others and then use my trickster powers to make them regret it.

Or if I could change shapes, I’d just rob bad people and do petty vandalism.

Pain? No that feeling is wonder.

It is wonderfully early 2000s.

M0nkrus is probably safe, that’s why people recommend them so frequently.

I lack the technical knowledge to say whether splitting the file to scan would work or not, but I suspect not.

AFAIK, you don’t. You might be able to validate the actual software package’s hash against official sources, but the crack won’t validate because it’s different from the unedited files.

That’s why picking a site and uploader you know is important. You’re kind of just hoping for the best.

Most of them are “just” a racket. They’re pointless middlemen who raise prices, but they generate sales tax so governments mandate their presence.

That being said they’re greasy as hell and deserve every bit of ire they receive. It is a very uniquely scummy business.

I’d recommend opensuse tumbleweed. Codecs can be a little weird, so I recommend installing a flatpak for VLC and your browser. Otherwise, I’ve found it to be a very similar experience.

Arch has a cult like following because it emphasizes simplicity and customizability. If you have the time to fully administer your own system, there is no better choice.

Ubuntu is corporate, frequently out of date, and sometimes incompetent. They got big a long time ago when they were a significantly easier option than their competitors, but I really don’t think there’s compelling reason for a new user to install Ubuntu today.

No. Imagining an independent future for any state (including California and Texas) is pure cope. The states are so interdependent that attempting to secede would be ruinous for the state in question.

The only exceptions I can think of are Alaska and Hawaii, which might be able to survive if they found another country to keep them supplied and economically connected.

That just means they need a sex room to experiment in.

This is bad for us too. A cratering stock market slows down hiring which depresses wages and makes it harder to find work.

Both systems are purposefully inefficient and byzantine because it increases tax revenue for the state (and bribes for the state government).

The 3 tier system is where alcohol must be sold by the producer to a distributor, by the distributor to a bar/liquor store, and by a bar/liquor store to the consumer. This effectively allows the state to collect tax 3 times on any one serving of alcohol. Unfortunately, it also results in higher prices and less choice for consumers. You can’t just buy liquor on amazon and have it mailed to your home, you (sometimes) can’t just buy from a local distillery, and you have to pay extra for the distributor to do a lot of not very much.

The dealership system allows local government to collect sales tax on resident’s cars and allows local government officials to collect bribes from car dealers whose entire business relies on their competition being illegal. Without dealerships, you could just order a car from a manufacturer to be shipped to your home and you could buy it without cutting a dealer in, but the local government wouldn’t get the sales tax income and your mayor or whatever wouldn’t get to collect as many bribes.

Automatic weapons are regulated and cost more than a new car. Our firearms laws are lax and have many problems, but that isn’t one of them.

They eat crops and are considered a disease vector here. They can also damage your home by trying to build a nest inside a wall or something.

The little bastards are still so ugly they’re cute though.

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It would be very useful to people who don’t consume multimedia, especially writers and certain types of hobbyists and office workers.

I’m very surprised the top answer isn’t pocketbook. Their entire business model is reworking Chinese e ink tablets to make them GDPR compliant and privacy respecting. I’d recommend the pocketbook verse pro if you want a lit screen and USB C, but they have a cheaper model without those features.

Here is a good spec comparison table for ereaders in general. I’d point out basically all e-readers have great battery life.

https://ewritable.net/comparison-tables/comparison-table/

That’s covered in the article. If you are a noncitizen, you just have to provide documentation that you are here legally.

I don’t know how common they actually are, but they should be fairly accessible. Most insurance plans provide them free or at a heavy discount.

Hot take, but your local community matters infinitely more than the construction of your house. Build somewhere you have neighbors yoh get along with who will stick their neck out for you.

That being said, you can do the following:

• Plant/build near large trees to cover from satellite/aerial photography

• run conduit throughout so you don’t have to rely on wireless networking

• install security cameras that feed somewhere local (I’m assuming nobody who breaks into your house gives enough of a shit to fins and destroy your recordings)

• buy actually good locks, doors, and doorframes. Make sure you’re aware of what to expect from these, they wont actually keep someone out, they just make entrance louder and slightly more cumbersome.

• build a secret sex room for you and your spouse. This is less of a privacy asset, and more just a fun thing to do.

Our local PD literally have access to stingrays, cellbrite/Pegasus (I don’t actually know which one they pay for) and military weaponry. In the suburbs, they have armored vehicles as well (tanks and APCs, not armored swat trucks).

Obviously it varies by where you live because different departments will have different levels of funding and will ask for different toys from the feds, but you’d be surprised how comically over equipped many PDs are.