Sure, this time it only affected Windows computers, but Crowdstrike has also broken Linux installs this year:

https://stackdiary.com/crowdstrike-took-down-debian-and-rocky-linux-a-few-months-ago-and-no-one-noticed/

And with topgrade you can even upgrade flatpaks and your distros repos in one go

Ghost is open source. You can selfhost. It’s just that aggressively advertising their (paid) hosting services on the official website

Which is why the comment you where replying to specified

in civilised countries

The implication beeping that the US is not. Because in a lot of other countries surprise clauses in your T&C’s is illegal

If you don’t want to do that, then you can buy a bootable drive (for example here: https://www.shoplinuxonline.com/mint21-usb.html)

Using a different tool to create a bootable drive is just a part of installing any operating system, not just Linux. If you ever need to install windows on a pc that doesn’t have it installed you will see the same process.

Also I would argue that he was famously not a famous painter

But if they are edgy misogynists in their teens and then they outgrow the edgy part…

… Then we’ll still have a bunch of misogynists on our hand, but now their beliefs are sincere rather than performative.

Warning: the holographic cheese may contain (non toxic) glue

They are the old fashioned menu. So “file”, “edit” etc.

You can get it by pressing Alt. I’m not sure why there are icons in the menu though.

You mean the outdated piece of software that everyone (on Linux) used, which is slowly being replaced by multiple different implementations all based on the same standard? Seems to me like an apt (no pun intended) metaphor.

There is this concept called “crityhype”. It’s a type of marketing mascarading as criticism. “Careful, AI might become too powerful” is exactly that

Why should we be sorry. Russia brought this on themselves.

Here is an example of how to use this:

The code ![Picture of a dune I embedded from Unsplas](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1688164987143-3938a38cf69c?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2071&q=80) produces:

(I’ve taken a random picture from Unsplash for this. It doesn’t mean anything more

One way to lighten the load on servers is to host your images externally. You can still embed the images into your post and nobody will be able to see the difference on first glance. The markdown to embed is: ![Alttext](Linktopicture.tld/picturename.filetype

Alttext is optional but encouraged. If you don’t want to use it keep the first set of brackets [] empty