Sadly I fear worse, the bulk of people will adapt in the stupidest way...

What's coming... is obvious. When the AI bubble bursts, there will be an absurd amount more data centers than use for them... and all the hardware is in forms that aren't going to be convertable into consumer devices.

What's going to happen is what microsoft, amazon, and google have been dreaming of for a decade... Remember google Stadia, Luna etc...

People won't be buying PCs... they will be buying, thin clients. Your PC will just stream your hardware from a data center. The music and movie industries will be happy because the providers can scan for pirated content... governments may flat out ban individuals from owning personal computers, that's a security risk they can't control, they are already looking into bills to prevent personal AI systems. No worries of people bypassing age verification, or running custom OS's or firmware that can't be controlled.

Best of all it's super profitable, instead of a few grand for a one time purchase, they can hit you up every month... and gradually raise the prices like cable, like movie streaming. Maybe even vendor lockouts... you gotta stream an MS computer to get access to office 365, but you'll also need an amazon subscription to run some other applications, or games or whatever they locked in exclusivity for.

Awesome, welcome to the club :) always fun to get new linux users, and also always great to find new uses for old hardware.

USB should work fine assuming the system itself can boot to usb (googling it looks like it can, you may have t hit delete to enter the bios to tell it to boot to usb first though)... distro inherently isn't a huge varient in terms of resources used however desktop environment is. You absolutely want something with a very light desktop manager, LXDE, XFCE etc... So depends, if you are looking for something very simple... I'd say probably Linux Mint XFCE edition, if your goal is to learn how linux works, don't mind reading up some documentation, arch linux is amazing.

If you have experience with any distribution or like something, almost every distro has a version that's distributed with a light weight desktop manager. The desktop manager is where the bulk of the system requirement weight is.

I guess depends on the risk factor you want to take. For me I'd go VPN. You could go port forwarding, or you could even do something like temporarally use something like anydesk depending if you want to trust a corporation for remote access.

Not really, this administration doesn't have any problem asking for resignations and firing people, as long as they aren't white men.

Edit: my bad in thinking about it... Patel's still there so.. perhaps the white isn't quite needed for immunity.

Why not, just take that as a lesson? Small time creator fine... but, we're talking a thumbnail here, take a random screenshot from the video, toss a text overlay. Boom you are done. and honestly you'll stand out MORE, because everybody's doing the Mr Beast style thumbnail, you don't need to badly imitate the big boys... just do your own thing.

ah my bad, it's at the server end, point still goes from the user end, there's almost nowhere that they would go in which they have to type in the www.

Mainly because it's lost it's novelity. all browsers automatically search for it so it's not something people need.

I hate it because it goes both ways. IE the worse part is it more or less doesn't give a way to get proof.

IE the long and short of it is "we don't have to go to court and spend the money to argue if we ran a fair election, because the law doesn't require us to run a fair primary".

IE it's not "we cheated but we're allowed to cheat", it's "we're allowed to cheat... so we don't have to spend money proving that we didn't". Sadly that's a key problem with the laws in general, or the party system in general.

Ethics is kind of a personal viewpoint, there's no "agreed upon table of ethics". So of course be aware you are just getting opinions here.

Now my opinion, I do fall into the "if it's worth the money pay for it", if it's not, don't, and the Pirate now decide later is IMO a totally valid way to do that, and quite a few independent developers, etc... flat out encourage that method. Of course that doesn't mean they all do. But to me my personal ethics say it's more ethical... paying for a bad game, at the cost of not paying for a good game, is a travesty. My ethics say the best games should be the ones purchased... not the ones that had the best marketing and tricked the most people.

The left need to understand Israel has been a majority rightwing country for over 25 years now.

It's kind of the same view as billionares corporations etc... "yes we know they are giving far more to our opponents than us... but do you want them to give ALL of it to them instead".

This election specifically Democrats are hopeful they’d get votes from a large portion of traditionally Republican voters so they are pushing a bit on Trans to please Republicans but not too much that they lose their Democrat voters

But at the end of the day it doesn't matter. It's what they do on all of the "controversial issues" since the dawn of time. Biden and Obama both ramped up deportations and poured more into the border than anyone before them. What did it get them... all republican voters still believe they had "open borders".