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Since Linux does not seem to work on my laptop (I have spent hours trying to find a fully functioning distro, it doesn't exist yet for Snapdragon), I am curious if there are different things I can do to keep Windows from tracking all of my shit.

I know that's impossible but minimizing it is desirable for me, at least. I don't want CoPilot, I don't want advertisement pop ups, anything like bloatware I fucking hate it, as we all do.

So pls let me know what you do to minimize this shit. Apps, things I should uninstall, settings I should change. If I have step by step instructions I'm not afraid to use command prompts since I got a little bit of experience with that while trying to install Linux.

Thank you all in advance for helping this luddite

My friends are trying to get back home to Albuquerque from Portland after having their car broken into and things stolen. If you don't want to donate to the gofundme directly (I think they take a cut), DM me for venmo info and I can forward it to them. Anything helps, $4 is a gallon of gas to get them closer to home.

They are both trans POC traveling alone across the US, I wanna make sure they are safe and don't get stranded

Thanks comrades

Nothing like hearing Captain Save a Hoe played by a live band

I have a Microsoft Surface 7 laptop and reaaaally want to try Linux, but everywhere I've looked seems to say that Linux just isn't there yet, with maybe the exception of Arch. I've also seen that Ubuntu is working on it but a ton of stuff still doesn't work (keyboard, volume, Bluetooth).

Can someone tell me I'm wrong and that there is something out there that will work for my laptop? Im not a programmer and know pretty much nothing about coding so....I am terrified of Arch.

From the Wikipedia page:

"Coil were an English experimental music group formed in 1982 in London and dissolved in 2005. Initially envisioned as a solo project by musician John Balance (of the band Psychic TV), Coil evolved into a full-time project with the addition of his partner and Psychic TV bandmate Peter Christopherson (formerly of pioneering industrial music group Throbbing Gristle). Coil's work explored themes related to the occult, sexuality, alchemy, and drugs while influencing genres such as gothic rock, neofolk and dark ambient.[7] AllMusic called the group "one of the most beloved, mythologized groups to emerge from the British post-industrial scene.""

I have been having a really tough time with emotional regulation for several months. Every slight irritation feels like fucking nails on chalkboard, where something like buying the wrong thing at the store and not noticing until I get home might make me want to scream and throw things. I don't, but a lot of the time with annoyances I just loudly swear as kind of a pressure release and when it's really bad Ive been white knuckling it so as not to hit myself or throw shit. Normally I just let out a loud "FUCK" or "GOD DAMNIT". Not screaming, but much louder than I talk

My partner is from a normal healthy family so me raising my voice or just exasperatedly saying "fuck", not at him, but at the thing, is really upsetting to him. I don't see the big deal because my mother is a fucking cyclone of screaming and chaos so I'm very tame in comparison. But, I know it's something I need to try to control, I guess, but I feel like I can't. It's just an instinctive reaction, especially when there are a couple mistakes/annoyances stacked on eachother.

Any advice if you struggle with this? I go to therapy and my therapist sucks so thats not helpful right now

So I don't know shit about Crypto, but someone I know may have had their stuff hacked recently (sounds like there was a breach a week ago). They haven't been able to get back into their account and the whole thing sounds fishy from an outsider perspective so I wanna get someone else's thoughts on how to approach this because I think they are being seriously hacked and that someone might possibly be trying to steal their identity.

This person reached out to customer support and provided the appropriate documentation after locking their account, but this person said that they submitted the docs over and over, and for whatever reason the person they have been in contact with has not yet verified that the documentation is sufficient. This supposed customer service rep sounds like they, for whatever reason, have access to this person's entire browsing history and told them the last time that they logged on to their email account, social media, etc. This person also told me that at some point since this all began, that the cursor on the desktop started moving independently, and that some weird shit started updating or downloading. They are totally distraught so that's pretty much the only information I have...And I don't know what to do with it but I want to help. So if anyone has any info/advice on the coinbase issue, or someone possibly having hacked the desktop I would super appreciate it

Bought a giftcard for another comrade which won't work for them unfortunately, so I thought I'd post it up here for someone. Apparently it can only be used with US Companies and is only for online, phone or mail order purchases. Message me and I'll send you a screenshot with the info, I think it should work. I'll update the post once it's claimed.

From the Lenin biography by Robert Service

I chose social (service) workers, because Social Worker is a protected title in many states in the US but there are many people who do not have their degree/licensure who engage in the same if not similar work so I wanted to capture that.

Gonna preface my ideas with the fact that I have a basic understanding of the classes so I could be off base and would love feedback/corrections if I'm not applying the terms correctly.

I think the kneejerk reaction from people when they hear that someone works in social services would be that they are petty bourgeois, but I believe that because the field is so broad, and there is so much overlap in work that it is both petty and proletarian. For example, licensed Social Workers can engage in private or group practice where they work for themselves. At the same time, they have the option of working in the public/private/nonprofit sector if they would like, doing the same type of work or different, where they sell their labor to their employer. They can also do both of these things at the same time, or do one and then the other as they choose to change jobs. There are also people who do not have these qualifications who do essentially the same work, but can ONLY sell their labor to their employer, and do not have the option of starting their own practice, therefore I would consider them specifically proletariat. Their wages are often very, very low, typically to the point of qualifying for different types of low income assistance programs.

I think this probably gets more complex, too, due to the fact that the work has been professionalized over time with the advent of the degree and the licensure requirements while non-professional workers are still widely used and exploited in tandem.

Or, would Social Workers and social service workers necessarily exist in different classes from one another due to the professionalization of one and not the other (in the eyes of the employer)?

So yeah I'd love to hear any thoughts on this

I'm trying to confirm whether or not there was an ICE arrest in my community. I think it is, but someone else online said that they had it confirmed that the agents were not from ICE, but they were unable to provide any hard evidence to corroborate that

I'm having trouble finding videos, but are they required to wear vests identifying themselves as ICE, or can they vary?