You’re forgetting FLOSS. That wisdom only applies when the product is made for financial incentive and is free, and not always then either.

Good! I’m proud of 'em.

Be careful with your sources. Laced drugs are dangerous. But I’m with you.

I recommend FOSS alternatives to Adobe’s garbage. GIMP for a photoshop alternative. Krita for digital art. Inkscape for an Illustrator alternative. Ruffle for the Flash Player Standalone Client. So on and so forth.

Mint is based on Ubuntu.

Use Debian if you want a system like Ubuntu that isn’t full of Canonical’s corporate shit. Ubuntu is based on Debian.

Good. Anyone foolish enough to write code with a slop machine produces only slop. That garbage should’ve been deleted anyway.

That’s entirely ignoring the fact that this person didn’t have any backups elsewhere.

If you can’t think, you can’t code.

Brilliant.

cutting edge

🙄

Perseverance.

In the US that’s called a “wintry mix.” I always heard it called “slush” here in the US.