That's why I'm here. All the corporate owned social media are blatantly far-right fascists. Everywhere else is just thick with Nazis and racists.

Misleading headline. They still want to export it, but they want to process the minerals locally, and then export the processed rare earth material.

I do prefer to use a headphone jack when my phone is the source of music for my amplified sound system and large room speakers.

I was just trying (and failing) to imagine a distribution and development framework which was limited to those entities which agreed with a set of social parameters.

Fascists always use "protecting children" as the rationale for implementing mechanisms of social control. Their willingness to allow school shootings shows that they really don't care about protecting children at all.

Ubuntu is massively overrated. It's a bloated distro owned by a greedy corporation.

That's alot of effort to go from one horrible programming language to another horrible programming language.

DuckDuckGo is not a wrapper for Bing, but is in fact a distinct and independent search engine. DDG does grab some results from bing. but it also grabs from other sources and it's own crawler.

In today's skewed political spectrum, "Left" is what would be considered moderate in a reasonable perspective.

As others have said, most people don't install operating systems. They just buy a system, likely a laptop and run whatever OS is on it. Hardly any laptops come with Linux preinstalled unless you look pretty hard, or are searching specifically for one.

Missouri is represented twice in the list, with St Louis as the worst, and Kansas city not far behind.

From the charts in the article, it looks like levels of infection are up to where they were in May/June 2023. Were you wearing a mask then? It really begs the question: What is the threshold level of infection in which the wearing of masks is critically important?