Well, a Smith is probably more related to another Smith, or even a Schmidt or Herrera than a Nguyen.

Yes. And that doesn't excuse it; a moderator should be better than the community they moderate.

"childish trolls in this community", "this community is full of trolls", "90% of folks here dont get the issue and rather troll"

The people who coined the term "open source" are the same people who founded OSI. If you don't like their term, don't use it.

It doesn't actually contribute to the discussion.

Yes. You are free to distribute it in any way you wish. Some methods, like printing books, have a raw material cost. You can choose to pay someone to distribute via that method, or if you really want to, you can do the printing yourself at no cost but your own time and effort.

If you don't want to give it away for free, then just don't make it FOSS. It's that simple. People use free-libre licenses because they want to use that license model. If you don't want to, then don't.

Depends. What are you planning on using a VPN for?

That's not a meaningful comparison because it splits Ubuntu by version but all of Arch is a single category. We'd need to roll up the Ubuntu users for it to be apples to apples.

If you're in the position that the NSA is in your system trying to bypass SELinux, you have much bigger problems.

Besides, in that case, having it disabled is going to make it easier for them anyway.

Someone is going back over their contributions, right?

Right?

Debian and Fedora have ports, though not all packages are available, and you'll probably be doing a lot of porting if you want anything else.

But this bit from the uConsole R-01 product page might be relevant to you:

uConsole R-01 is a highly experimental model and requires some experience with Linux systems & FOSS. We strongly recommend all beginners choose other models.

A lot of this stems from instances running old versions with loose registration requirements, like no captcha. This is a problem in a federated system because there's no barrier for a banned user to just jump to another instance.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if, when Lemmy has anti-spam measures implemented like rate-limiting and captchas for registration, it disabled federation with instances that are at a lower version, to motivate small instances to upgrade and enable the new features.

Good news, the GNU Image Manipulation Program is designed for manipulating photos

swapoff, reformat, swapon?

Also make sure the drive isn't dying.

CTR is great, but what's the bounce rate?

The employer doesn’t claim any intellectual property rights over my work product. I’m not able to find anywhere that the proprietary vendor does either.

You're probably in the clear. Legalese isn't so opaque that you would miss a section about this.

Of course, that doesn't stop them from suing you if they decide your work could be very profitable for them.

I'm not sure there's a good adhesive that will accomplish this. What's the shape of the earbud? Could a piece of heatshrink on the outside accomplish it?

They have the whole world to trade with.

Well, except one of the biggest of all the countries that's right on their doorstep but refuses to trade with them.

Anyway, I'm not sure how you expect them to repay any debts when their economy is at rock bottom. The US expecting repayment for nationalized property is very much expecting to squeeze blood from a stone, and a stone of the US's own making.

Class action status has to be granted by a court. You can't file a class action ab initio. You'd have to file as an individual, get other people to file, then get a court to grant class action to consolidate the cases.