lol.
Just search for Purism customer support experiences.
I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.
All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.
Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.
Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:
Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.
Customer pays
Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.
Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”
There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.
Butterymales vibes.
Also, Trump isn’t the President. So whatever he may, or may not do, is hypothetical… It’s also irrelevant to what Biden is actually doing…you know, because he’s the current president…
This is mostly just public posturing and open diplomatic signaling.
Nuclear weapon submarines are always deployed, and have been since the advent of the Nuclear triad.
That’s as true for America, as it is for China, Russia, UK, etc. Basically every county with both nuclear weapons and a capable submarine platform/program.
You are leaving out the historical context of hyper violent insane independent action for honor mindset of the soldiers within the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy (IJA/IJN).
This culture of insubordination included a widespread belief that they did not to have obey civilian commands, and is largely responsible for ground level soldiers deciding on their own to kick off the war in Manchuria.
It’s entirely reasonable to envision a counterfactual version where either one of, or both the IJA and IJN refuse to surrender, or even just large contingents within either.
I’m not saying this to invalidate anything you’ve said, but I do think it’s highly relevant context when considering any alternative ways that could have gone.
Look, the worst that could happen is that he murders you, but honestly, he probably won’t.
It’s more likey he’ll probably just wear you down emotionally until you support him financially, while he stays at home and takes out credit cards under your name.
On the plus side, I bet he’ll fuck like a racehorse on the rare days when he isn’t too dipped, or shit faced.
Edit: Just noticed you added that he’s a veteran with PTSD, and yes, that changes my answer: he will probably murder you.
Not just because he’s a veteran with PTSD, but because he’s clearly a massively damaged and dangerous person AND has war trauma.
Most likely outcome: strangulation.
No, it’s a way to say that Mint has become bloated and not a great experience.
I just switched to Fedora from Mint, and was impressed.
I recently switched my main Linux laptop to Fedora and I have to say, it’s probably the most stable and clean distro I’ve ever used.
Interceptors haven’t been a thing since the cold war. BVR engagements have been the air to air norm for many years, and that requires a weapons grade targeting lock.
No, my assertion is that airspace is very dynamic battlefield.
Just because you can track a possible stealth aircraft several hundred nautical miles off you’re coast, does not guarantee your ability to intercept it with aircraft before it drops it’s payload, or that your SAM sites will be able to get a missile targeting lock.
It’s just a first step.
Your second sentence is mostly accurate, your first is not.
Just because tracking radar identifies something, does not mean it’s automatically vulnerable to interception, and it definitely does not guarantee that targeting radar will be able to create a missile, or weapons, lock.
But yes, the ability to track something is a critical first step in an anti-air kill chain.
Radar detection is not the same as weapons grade lock for anti-aircraft targeting purposes. Still helpful to know something is there, but the article doesn’t provide any additional information on how actionable that information will be.
Exactly. There’s no way that could ever go tits up.
Absolutely. Everyone here is acting like PDF and JPEG exploits on Android don’t exist.
I agree that OP shouldn’t pay for one, and that most AV apps are, at best, garbage, but there are also reasons to have one, and reasonable ones to install - Hypatia being one of them.
You toss a better word salad, I’ll give you that.
However, you probably should have read the conversation to understand the context behind my dismissive “mic drop”.
OP said something kinda dumb.
I corrected them.
Instead of owning their mistake, or moving on, they try to explain away their dumb comment with a large block of tangentially related regional facts and observations, logical fallacies, and a bad metaphor/analogy about the meaning of a kiss.
Maybe their are situations when a rambling word salad is the right answer, but I haven’t come across any, yet.
Do you think groups like radical Islamic organizations only attack targets when they’re associated with American actions…?
Russia has a long history of conflict with these types of groups, both internally (Caucuses) and externally (Syria, Afghanistan, etc.).
A history I might add, that predates American influence in the Middle East, much less the War on Terror.
Relative valuations aren’t the key differences, it’s what the companies do, and what they support.
ARM technology powers the vast majority of mobile devices, and is estimated to have upwards of 30% of the PC CPU market share by 2026.
It’s sale, or acquisition, is more than a pissing match between two great powers.
Uh…TikTok is not ARM, or anything close to resembling it.
The US justification for forcing the sale of TikTok may be horseshit political theater for dubious reasons, but that doesn’t close the gap of making a TikTok sale anywhere close to resembling ARM.
Damnit. I hate when my local city government’s finances are too fucked to pay the energy bill, but still have money for military weapons procurement.
Wait a minute…local city governments are able to purchase air launched cruise missiles and anti-tank weapons!!! And they can export them to!!!
Dude I think you might be onto something, that is pretty wild…makes you wonder what the dog catcher is really up to… probably moonlights with gig economy wetwork.