We lived here in 2011, I don't recall any major issues with power that we experienced or what was reported on in any news broadcast. The only thing about weather I remember for 2011 was the excessively hot summer.
- hurricanes hit eastern states every year and the US taxpayer helps
- wildfires hit western states every year and the US taxpayer helps
- tornadoes hit the mid-western states every year and the US taxpayer helps
Although cups has a hardwired dependency on libsnapd-glib1 so you can't remove that library, but the nosnap.pref file will prevent snapd from ever being installed again.
It certainly is. And every time a program is forced to have the crash reporting be opt-in because of the region I live in, I sing Ode to Joy. Don't get me wrong I'm no invasive telemetry enthusiast.
But I wouldn't mind being _able_ to make that choice for some projects I trust. If it were up to me, Linux maintainers would be looking at enough (opted-in) user stacktraces in their code that they'd start thinking of syzbot* fondly.
(* Fuzzer that Linux maintainers love to complain about due to the deluge of rare bugs and crashes it drops on them)
A number of Linux distros and software have automated bug reporting tools, they just tend to require an explicit confirmation before submittingn anything.
E.g. there's Ubuntu's Apport, Fedora's ABRT, KDE's Dr. Konqi.
I haven't read the privacy policy (who does?) But I am willing to bet that it doesn't restrict MS to these purposes and in fact allows them to do whatever they want for any reason.
>So devs can see what I've been upto on my own computer.
If you consent to sharing the error with Microsoft. It may contain some information about what was running to assist with finding the issue. There is a strict privacy policy for what this data is allowed to be used for.
>I assume the problem is the default is "send" rather than "don't send"?
I've been using Gentoo Linux (which is also a rolling-release distro) since the early 2000s (maybe 2002?).
Even taking into account the libpng upgrade disaster in the early-to-mid 2000s, it's the most sane, most stable, least-trouble-free distro I've used.
I've wanted to find some other good distro, but all the ones I've tried either
a) Only ship ancient packages in their official repositories, requiring me to go to unofficial sources to get oh so many up-to-date versions of things.
b) Inevitably do something pants-on-head retarded as part of normal operation (nearly always during upgrades) and require me to bust out my Linux sysadmin skills to unwedge the system
or (sometimes) both "a)" and "b)".
You don't like rolling-release distros? That's fine, more power to you. They've been working fine for me for (oh dear god, I'm so old) ~20 years.
Gentoo stable (aka not ~arch) might be rolling release but can also be surprisingly conservative, often getting new versions even after Debian stable.
Gentoo testing (aka ~arch) does come with occasional surprises (although most common is some package update failing to build) but still worth it compared to having to deal with big updates or even reinstalls.
I run testing on my desktop, and stable-with-some-exceptions on my servers and router.
For the past couple of decades, I've been periodically looking for other equally-no-surprises distros so that I can stop burning so much power on building from source, and, man, I don't think I'm ever going to find one.
Of course it will be, that's what the Decks run now. They don't update in the same way or pace as regular Arch, though. pacman is basically disabled. You're encouraged to do everything through flatpak and appimage, and then the occasional blessed system update comes through for the other parts.
Using a non rolling release distro as a desktop makes 0 sense. You're holding off on upgrades, forcing 1 gigantic upgrade at once that will never be tested. Do you have a dev or staging environment for your desktop upgrades? Why not do small incremental updates all the time?
I deleted my LinkedIn account when it started becoming more like Facebook (nothing against FB, Wide likes it) but FB isn't for me.
Also, I removed my public open source projects from GitHub after Microsoft bought them then removed them from GitLab too when the AI warnings about stealing copyrighted code started to sound more real.
