Learn about mutual funds and ETFs. I think the EU has these. Learn about 3 fund portfolios and the Bogehead approach. Adapt it to the EU. Avoid individual securities except bonds are sometimes useful.

I know I originally subscibed to some popular feeds on lemmy.ml. Not sure now which ones but they were filled with what was probably Russian propaganda so I had to dump them.

If one password can take down the company, you do not have sane security. That is just stupid.

Usually openvpn via tls port 443 is the least blocked.

Not sure what they are talking about. Maybe sarcastic. The podcast mentioned various actors were spreading fake AI generated “official” reports within days.

This is why I do not use a rolling release distro.

Life has the meaning you choose to give it.

Why do you think someone 80 should dress any differenty? 80 is not even that old. My mom is like 95 and dresses the same pretty much she did decades ago.

As far as makeup and nails, that often looks foolish at any age.

The crime angle on immigration was always made up. Crime rates where lower than average among this group. So if you deport that group crime rates would go up.

Checkout this podcast which has an interesting take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o069oHLvDkg

Basically, they conclude that we all know who is implicated already and this is just a lot of meaningless distraction. They go on the point out that people from both parties are involved, and that even know we know by in large there has been no consequences and there is unlikely to be any.

I wonder if this has to do with the fact that probably for most Americans, it is not a number 1 issue. Now the administration as made it a big issue for everyone and in a way that is basically not acceptable to many of us and that they said they would not do during their campaign (Who could have known…). It is also kind of laughabe that on one hand there are people screaming about low birth rates, not enough workers, and on the other screaming about too much immigration. If birth rates are too low and there are not enough workers, immigration is a solution and it has always been a big part of the American identity. So has push back against it, and so has isolationism, and racism too. So I have more wonders about this then answers, but it is “interesting”.

I suppose this is because he ended the Russian agression in Europe months ago!!! \s

Tables are a great starting point. So is something like alternativeto.net and just go down through the list by popularity until you get to something sane.

There is also going to be disagreements about what is best. There is no best app. We all have unique needs and concerns. I know I disagree with many things Op said in such an absolute way.

Was he the one that went to Mexico during that big power outage?

Love how he and the admin do not want to take some ownership of this after wrecking the government. Saying Bidens fault or you should not be asking the question.

More of a rant. Post is kind of nuts. They are talking about a comparison matrix not a check list. How else are you going to compare.

Not surprising. The US is a petro state. It will never want to switch to something else. China and the EU are far more motivated.

Loyalty over competence again it appears. What a surprise.

I like Zim. Used it for years. The big advantages you can have many 1000s of pages and it just uses a folder tree not a database, so you have direct and attachment access if you need it. Zim is a true hierarchical wiki not a simple notes app. There a plugins you can enable for more advanced features.

Zim does get slower with more pages for some operations like searches and some changes. I have one wiki with 4500 pages and do feel it is getting a bit slower sometimes. You can however just create another notebook at any time as long as your content has reasonable dividing lines.

The poor health argument might be valid.

The low income argument on the other hand would suggest continue working and waiting until the SS, pension, and other income sources is enough. Even with poor health you kind of have to still do that to some extent. Don’t get their conclusion about all of that regarding how one can retire without enough income. Just bonkers.

The article was not US based so they really do not understand US retirement anyway. What they mean by pension is Social Security. In the US pension means another form of pension like a corporate or government pension separate from social security.

Actually the safest thing is probably to choose a main system and run the other in a VM like with VirtualBox. For you, you could just install VirtualBox on Windows then Linux inside of a VirtualBox VM. Windows does have a builtin Virtualization solution too you may be able to use, but I have personally never done that. Keep in mind too that VMs are not as performant as bare metal. For video probably NO, for images fine, for audio maybe but you’ll have to see if you get the real-time timing you need in a VM. Good way to play in any case. 2nd best if you have a workstation, not a laptop, you could put in a hot mount SATA drive enclosure, and just swap in the drive you want and get full bear metal performance. Dual boot takes some tech skill. Be sure to back everything up if you do that. Should do that anyway before fiddling. Also if you use bitlocker and secure boot make sure you have all your recovery keys and know how to work with your bios settings too.

Maybe I am missing something, not sure why you care about NTFS. If this is a separate computer you don’t really care about that, just the sharing protocol (SMB for example). If it is on the main box, then you’d probably convert this to Ext4 or something similar. No reason to stick with NTFS with Linux. There are a lot of great FS options on linux plus BTRFS, LVM, or RAID to if you want redundancy.

Regarding apps. The alternativeto site is great. Linux has a bunch of audio and photo software. If your a pro, you may not find any of it sufficient. Especially a lot of people cannot do without Photoshop. The common quoted photo programs are GIMP and Darktable. There are many other photo and image programs. Common audio program is Audacity. Again, there are many others. Looks like some handle vst but I have no personal experience.