The port number on the outside doesn’t have to be the same as the port number on the inside.

You could build Debian from scratch and use your preferred compiler settings.

https://github.com/scottwilliambeasley/debian-from-scratch

The question is even more fraught than you might have considered.

What if you report them to your rideshare company and they do nothing?

As a passenger of a private vehicle where you observe or experience dangerous behaviour, are you required or obligated to report the behaviour to the police?

What if that driver came to collect your teenage child?

I don’t envy your situation, but their income is not your responsibility, your personal safety is.

The platform is owned by Google. By using YouTube in any way, watching, liking, subscribing, commenting, searching, clicking, all of it, you’re “using Google”.

So, the answer is that you cannot use YouTube and not use Google.

If Google is broken up, that might change, but I’m not sure if that will ever happen, what form that might take or if it would ever happen at all.

No it’s not.

It’s a rising star with climate change deniers who wave it around as a “viable” “new” energy source that competes with the, in their opinion unviable solar and wind energy alternative which are already running and generating power at a fraction of the cost associated with building nuclear power plants.

How many more Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Sellafied and Fukushima will it take for people to get it through their thick skulls that running a nuclear plant on Earth is not reasonable?

Sellafield happened in 1957 and they’re still cleaning up the site and aren’t expecting to finish this century, and that’s if they don’t run out of money.

Chernobyl is in the middle of the war between Russia and Ukraine and continues to be threatened by idiots with small dicks and big guns.

Nuclear power is not a viable option.

It goes well beyond bother.

In my opinion, the biggest issue is that software with a GPL licence is not permitted to be distributed without making the source code available, which Red Hat restricted to only paying customers, and in doing so added a licence restriction which is not permitted by the GPL.

They are now profiting off the work of every developer who ever contributed to the software they’re selling and none of those people are getting paid.

That’s a big question, but I don’t trust Red Hat after the stunts they’ve pulled over the years. Here’s a taste.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/red_hat_centos_move/

I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I’ve been using it for 25 years.

I’m not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.

Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.

Never used OpenSUSE.

PSA to disable Google Assistant:

1. Launch Google.
2. Tap on your user icon in the top right.
3. Tap on Settings.
4. Tap on Google Assistant.
5. Tap on General.
6. Tap on the Google Assistant toggle.
7. Tap on “Turn Off”.

I wonder how much damage that little stunt caused to that borehole, which I suspect cost a pretty penny to create.

Black Friday is a marketing exercise to get you all riled up about the massive savings you will receive if you buy something RIGHT NOW.

Suffice to say that the actual bargains on the day are far and few between.

If you actively track pricing you’ll discover that the price goes up before the event, then drops to the same or slightly lower pricing on the day. The “bargain” is notional at best.

Then there are the “pre Black Friday” sales, and the “Cyber Monday” ones afterwards. It’s all just marketing.

If you want an actual bargain, find what you’re looking for, set a price watch on it and track it for as long as you have patience. When you’re ready, buy it from your preferred supplier and get them to price match the amazing price.

As far as refurbished goes, ask yourself what is the upside for the supplier to give away any bit of return on their spend to refurbish the item in the first place?

I’m beginning to suspect that the recent election results can be explained by one word: Entropy

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

I’m not eligible to vote in your country. In mine, voting is mandatory and there are no stickers, just democracy sausages to aid in the funding for local polling places like schools and community halls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage

The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.

In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.

Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.

Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.

Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.

Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.

That’s like asking for an elephant stamp for wiping your butt after going to the toilet.

Voting isn’t an accomplishment, it’s your duty and the reward is the society you live in.

It appears that the OP is incapable of discovering Adobe Acrobat.

It’s not an app, the technology you described is called a “PDF form”.

The thing that you’re looking for is called “PDF forms”.

If you don’t have any hair, it won’t change colour…

(It’s a joke, laugh)

Also, not for nothing, the human body changes daily. I’d recommend that you get used to it before you have an unhappy life pursuing battle against the inevitable.