suicidaleggroll

Something I haven't seen mentioned yet - if you're in the US, lock down your credit at all 3 agencies. It takes 10-15 minutes and is free, it's easy to do.

The issue is that many of these leaks include things like your full legal name, phone number, parents' full legal names, your social security number, and your entire address history. This makes it trivially easy for somebody to steal your identity and start opening up credit accounts in your name. You need to lock down your credit before that happens. If you need your credit run in the future (opening a bank account, getting a credit card or loan), just ask them which agency they pull the report from and temporarily unfreeze it so they can run the report, then re-freeze it when they're done. It adds 5 minutes of work once or twice a decade, but could be priceless later on when someone tries to steal your identity.

A lot of it comes down to the Just World Fallacy

They believe that, fundamentally, the world is just and good (mostly that stems from religion and a just "god", but not always). This means that when something bad happens, they assume the person must have deserved it, because bad things don't happen to good people. They also believe they are a good person, and therefore bad things won't happen to them. When something bad DOES happen to them, they start screaming from the rooftops that some radical injustice has occurred and somebody needs to do something to make it right! Completely unaware of the fact that nobody from their "tribe" will believe them, because the fact that something bad happened to them meant they must have been a bad person who deserved it.

I bought my house in 2014, $224k at 4% APR, my monthly payment including taxes is $1400/mo.

It's only been 11 years, inflation is up ~35% in that time, so buying the same house now should be ~$1900/mo. Actual price if I were to buy it now? ~$3500/mo. And wages have barely budged. No wonder young people entering the workforce can't buy houses anymore.

Sure in a decade or so it might have matured enough to have shed all these issues

That's the point. They want to set themselves up so that when the issues are shed and it becomes a realistic product, they're already in a place where their product can be the one that takes over the market. If you wait until a product is viable before starting on development, you're too late.

I abandoned Google when they started throwing shopping links at the top of every search, even when searching for things that have no relevance to shopping, and they started artificially promoting scams and paid material above actual results.

Google Search was best around 10-15 years ago when their only focus was providing the best results they could (remember when you could actually click the top result and you would be taken to the most applicable page instead of some unrelated ad or scam?). Now their focus is on providing the best product possible for their actual customers (paid advertisers) even when it means trashing their own product in the process.

Profits dropped by 71% compared to the same quarter last year, but the stock price went up 68% in the same time frame. Because that makes sense. Who are the idiots still buying TSLA at these prices?

Nah, turns out you don't actually have to change it at all. If nobody is willing to enforce the rules laid out in the Constitution, then it's just a worthless scrap of paper that means nothing. He can just do whatever he wants now, nothing matters.

2-4G for swap (more if you want to hibernate), the rest for /. Only add a boot/EFI partition if needed.

Over-partitioning is a newbie mistake IMO, it usually causes way more problems than it solves.

They won't. Musk has a hard-on for doing everything with visible cameras for some stupid reason.

Uh huh, and then what? Wake me up when he actually experiences any kind of consequences for his actions.

I don’t like the fact that I could delete every copy using only the mouse and keyboard from my main PC. I want something that can’t be ransomwared and that I can’t screw up once created.

Lots of ways to get around that without having to go the route of burning a hundred blu-rays with complicated (and risky) archive splitting and merging. Just a handful of external HDDs that you "zfs send" to and cycle on some regular schedule would handle that. So buy 3 drives, backup your data to all 3 of them, then unplug 2 and put them somewhere safe (desk at work, friend or family member's house, etc.). Continue backing up to the one you keep local for the next ~month and then rotate the drives. So at any given time you have a on-site copy that's up-to-date, and two off-site copies that are no more than 1 and 2 months old respectively. Immune to ransomware, accidental deletion, fire, flood, etc. and super easy to maintain and restore from.

And? Who’s going to do anything about it? The stupidest people in this country gave a con man unilateral power to do anything he wants, what did they expect?