That’s a shame, I rather like bauh

It works ? I mean what necessary functionality is it missing ? Magnet link goes in, files come out, happy face.

Generally most people get recommended to start their Linux journey with Mint as it is noob friendly (while still having full functionality) other options to consider would be popOS Ubuntu & Fedora.

qBittorrent is the most recommended I’ve seen, although I use transmission.

Given the TOR part is kinda the point of tails you may wish to expand on what exactly a “tails like live os without tor” looks like.

The standard Mint iso will boot into a live session with no persistence, click on network icon to join tge wifi and away you go. You can setup a script to install stuff that isnt on the stock build (pretty sure firefox is there but a vpn config for example).

Without a use case description that sounds like what you’re asking for.

I’m sure the other distros that offer live usbs will be the same.

A billion has to be enough for them to notice it you’d hope ! They also got a €251m and a €91m fine (in 2018 & 2021 iirc on the dates)

Appeal never lodged as far as I can find searching tje Irish high court lists. They lodged appeals against a €90m fine though which started hearing last week, and withdrew an appeal against a 2018 €251m fine

Yeah sorry, €1.2bn was USD $1.3billion at the time and about 1.25bn now, so hardly misleading though.

How about a $1.2 Billion fine ? Would that perhaps be consequential ?

They got hit with that 2 years ago

https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/

I just checked, it’s 4% of revenue and apparently Meta has already had a €1.2 Billion fine yes that B is not a typo.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/

Actually GDPR fines can reach 3% of revenue if i recall my compulsory training correctly. That’s a lot more than $20m for farcebook I would expect

Ok. So I found on announcements at https://community.signalusers.org/ that Signal added obtainium to the download options (due to google delays on releasing through play store). I also got another update notification from Signal app this morning, which went away once I upgraded to the latest version. Could be related ?

I had the same “that’s weird” reaction too. So not just you, would be good to know if it was kosher or a malware. I might have a dig now

I had the same at the same time. I ignored the app request and updated from app store

If timeshift is not already installed, please do. Do a snapshot before you update and set the settings to auto delete / keep only a certain number (or do it manually) so you don’t fill your hard drive. I usually keep 1 monthly, 3 weekly and 3 dailies on a rolling basis

If you do the snapshot religiously then when an update breaks it you can just boot a liveUSB and restore (mint iso is a live USB and has it already installed).

You do of course then need to work out what broke and why once you’ve rolled back to the prior working state

Sorry, proof of concept, i was being lazy

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While KDE plasma can be made to work on Mint (I’ve done it as a PoC) it is NOT something a beginner should be doing because a) it’s an unsupported config and b) you need to pull in non mint repositories to get the plasma files, and then you’ll be fiddling around to get it working again when an update breaks something.

If Mint has been troublesome then popOS ubuntu and Fedora would be better choices.

Watching a video is still a pain, 10mins of rabbiting on to make a point that usually can be summarised in 3 sentences (ie 20secs reading tops). And THAT ignores the shenanigans YouTube are up to forcing logins and blocking VPNS.

I still consider it rude unless there is information that really does need to be visual.

Ditto on both age and disinterest in watchinh videos. It takes so damn long to get to the point and you need headphones which I have to dig out