Atemu

Atemu , 3 months ago

If you’re using NetworkManager, I’d recommend you to use it to create a VPN profile instead and connect to that on startup through the unprivileged nmcli.

Atemu , 3 months ago

Just download TOR browser?

Atemu , 4 months ago

Assuming constant moderate growth (compared to the historical world-wide average), with even as little as 20currency/month over your entire working lifetime (* 45 years = ~10k), you can expect to gain about ~30k through stocks.

How much you earn scales linearly with your savings rate (the ratio stays the same), so this can be scaled up or down.

Even if your ability to invest isn’t great, it’s still worth doing.

Atemu , 4 months ago

I bought enough stock that the dividend covers my monthly fees.

That’s already a good bit of capital locked in stocks just for banking fees. Not saying that’s not worth it but not everyone has the luxury of having that capital.

it’s up like 18%+ since I started the other year so I’m not going backwards there either.

Note that this is mostly due to the current economic situation. As the world as a whole recovers from the pandemic, global indices rise.

With this sort of strategy, you must expect draw downs of just as much however; a crisis usually sends stock prices down faster and further than a recovery period like ours sends them up by. As an example: The start of the Palestine war last year sent the FTSE-All-World index down 5% in just a week or so.

Historically, the stock prices as a whole have grown around 7% p.a., so if the historical average growth continues, investing in a broad spectrum of stocks is a winning strategy.

Atemu , 4 months ago

God bless America…

Atemu , 10 months ago

You don’t need to think about your DE choice w.r.t. performance on their class of hardware. It can run the heaviest DEs just fine.

Atemu , 10 months ago

The 710M will give you trouble. Like, pain in the ass. See if you can disable it in BIOS; you won’t be using it for “serious” gaming anyways.

Distro doesn’t much matter. It’s fully up to personal preferences. Try them all (using Ventoy like @b9chomps recommended. Some distros make the installation and management of the Nvidia driver easier than others but you should ideally be disabling that GPU entirely.
I personally recommend Fedora to newcomers but as I said, that’s personal preference.

Note that if some piece of hardware (i.e. wifi) doesn’t work in one of them, it most likely won’t work in any distro.

It has the option of UEFI but the GeForce (I think) doesn’t support it.

This doesn’t make much sense to me. The GPU plays no role in that part of the boot process.

I’m planning to upgrade the RAM to 8 gigs and upgrade to an SSD

Get an SSD now. Even a dirt cheap one. 4GB is tenable with careful management but a hard drive will make everything excruciatingly slow, even on Linux.

Atemu , 10 months ago

Smells like a DNS issue.

Atemu , 11 months ago

Distros that don’t respect your privacy are hard to find, so privacy isn’t really a factor here. You’re just going to get everyone’s favourite distro here, regardless of whether it fits your other requirements.

What kind of hardware do you use?
How stable or fresh would you like your distro to be?
What wind of desktop experience do you prefer?

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Also note that the apps you use (on your PC or in the browser) usually far outshadow the OS w.r.t. privacy intrusion.