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ext4 for system partitions and zfs for anything dedicated to personal data storage.

I recommend installing a Linux distribution that requires a hands-in approach like Gentoo or Linux from scratch. If you don’t have an extra computer you can do it on a virtual machine on the computer you do have.

The process will require you to use the various incantations and rituals of using the terminal. As you do so, learn what they do by googling them or using their man page.

For more practice, write a shell script or otherwise choose a task you want to do using the terminal like browsing through your files or searching for a file whose name matches a pattern and so on.

Dems voters openly accepting 99% Hitler rather than do literally anything but whine about the people fighting back:

Wrong

The girl reading this comment

That’s a storm drain. It’s already filling up with an incredible amount of tire debris and whatever fun fluids leak out of cars on the road.

It’s good to not litter but the fault really lies on the supply side, creating products that inevitably produce non-biodegradable waste.

It’s enough but you’ve gotta be ready to pay for a $1 million small bungalow, so $200k up front and a $4k/month mortgage.

Finally someone is standing up to the woke mob. Thank you, WB conglomerate! You are the true underdog.

Get a load of this slava ukraini

You did cite Wikipedia itself.

Did… did you forget? Already?

Buddy nobody is impressed with your media criticism process of regurgitating Media Bias Fact Check and Wikipedia. It’s actually an announcement that you have no familiarity with any of this and don’t know how to critically consume media yourself. Ironically you’re going to mislead yourself by simply uncritically accepting what is written in those two websites.

Rather than searching around for someone else to tell you what to think about The Gray Zone, why not critically engage with the content? What do they cite? What topic are they discussing? Do you know anything about it? To what are they responding? Are their criticisms valid?

There’s no reason a random dude with a bachelor’s in physiology can’t be good at media criticism. It’s not like the big nerds that go into journalism or join think tanks are beacons of truth. Media criticism is about flexing your skeptical and investigative muscles and being highly informed about the topics in question so that you can do the hardest thing in it: identify what was left out, what was neglected, and what articles were not written instead of what is before you.

That said, this particular random dude physiology major is not good at media criticism.

There is no such thing as neutral. That site is a good example of it: they’re personally highly biased towards “centrist” liberal positions to the point that they conflate it with writing “just the facts”. They have no consistent methodology, they’re just showing you their own inability to detect bullshit when it’s something they agree with.

For example, as it has often done in its history, The New York Times has been carrying water for fascistic settler colonial narratives, including hiring an obvious racist to write implausible articles about alleged sexual assaults by Hamas on October 7. Articles contested by the people interviewed, the families and friends of those who died. They censored their own attempts to admit fault and their workers creating media about the errors. Only in the last week have they fired the author in question, which will surely be used to imply that this is the only thing wrong with their consistently biased coverage that focuses almost exclusively on interviewing state department officials, Zionist NGOs, and Israeli government officials.

Did you find any of that on “media bias fact check”? Did it rank the NYT lower than The Gray Zone on its ability to report factually? For having a Zionist bias? Even this one example I’ve provided is far more damning than anything you’ve listed.

You can’t outsource media criticism, you have to do it yourself and engage with it.

Bankruptcy can kill Reddit. Give the C-suite some credit, they can still drive that sucker straight into the ground.

Gentoo is good for learning. It’s not really a privacy or security-focused distribution per se. It promotes you being comfortable with the command line, configuration files, networking, unix-ie things, and of course compiling programs. If you’re tired of the compiling there is basically no downside to switching to Arch as a “one step up” distribution.

If there’s anything to retain concern for it’s Chinese companies sharing data with the US gov. On the plus side, that will probably decrease as the US tries to isolate (read: undermine and create a cold war against) China.

Westerners are so propagandized that they don’t even recognize propaganda when they see it. They just internalize it as fact and fight when someone points it out.

Right? Nothing from their political class.

Propaganda says both: first that Russia did it, then that Ukraine did it. The former is insulting stupid and the second is more subtle but still makes no logistical sense, as Ukraine lacks the specialized equipment and personnel required. The “Ukraine did it” narrative is one that’s still safer for the NATO bloc group that certainly did it, as even if they acknowledge it as true (which they don’t need to and have avoided doing), it’s easy to brush under the rug as Good Slava Ukraini Resistance.

This is why these countries doing investigations are mum. They know neither narrative is true.

lol no. You’ve made the classic blunder of believing a propaganda narrative.