Proton isn’t for profit? Huh TIL. Anyway, they both support Trump, so both aren’t great. Make of that what you will, sliding scale of ethics and all that…

Sooo… Maco? Or are we reserving that only for the big guy?

It didn’t get enough attention or make enough money, so Canonical dropped it. Its still on life support and slowly having some features added by the the open source community under the name ubports, but its slow going (they just updated the entire codebase from Ubuntu 16.04->18.04 and most recently 20.04) and not the best approach in my opinion, as i think every app has to be specifically developed for ubports, unlike postmarketOS where you can install anything in the repo. It also uses halium which is a translation layer for the android kernel that allows rhe Linux side to interact with hardware, since a lot of the drivers to make these phones work, aren’t mainlined.

Also like any project like this, device support is severely lacking (especially in the US).

Though admittedly, I didn’t realize you could get fairphone in the US now, and that it might work on us bands. So ubports on fairphone 5 might be good, dunno.

http://ubports.com/

Sadly the CEO of Proton turned out to be not a great guy.

Design a Linux phone. So sick of google and android. Currently looking at Fairphone 6 in the US as postmarketOS just got initial support, still need cellular, WiFi, camera to be functional, but considering it just came out a few months ago, pretty impressive.

Sounds like a quick way to make half a billion dollars 😅

Someone should just re-make all the products google killed off and by the end you’d have a competitor to google. Literally no thought needed to have a business plan or model, they’ve already killed off everything people love, lol.

Kinda seems like he does the opposite, but I haven’t been personally checking when his cronies sell. He seems to say some bullshit to tank a market then buy cheap knowing it’ll go back up, because taco.

A dump and pump, if you will. Which is very fitting for 'ol Donnie.

To clear up another point:

If you don’t pay off your monthly credit card statement in full you will have to pay 25% interest until its paid off

You’re not charged 25% interest until you pay it off, you’re charged 25% interest split over the year, daily. So .25/365

So if you’re balance is $1,000 and you don’t pay it for 2 months, you owe:

$1000 + $1,000x(.25/365)x30 days = $1020.54 the first month

$1020.54 + $1020.54x(.25/365)x30 days = $1041.51 the second month

My favorite story about best buy is in the early 2000’s, a family member gifted me a $20 gift card to best buy, which unbeknownst to them, I had stopped shopping at because it got too expensive and I started buying from newegg instead. Anyway, I walk in and am thinking 'well I don’t really need anything big right now, like a full PC, laptop, etc. Maybe I’ll just get a DVD or something."

Even with a $20 gift card, Best buy prices were so marked up, they were either still more expensive, or the same price as other stores. I think other stores were selling DVD’s at like $15 (not new-releases) and best buy was $35. I walked out and never ended up buying anything. I’m shocked they’re still around to be honest.

So to actually give you some amount of answer about why what you’re doing is historically not a good move: most apps and services that allow you to charge a credit card to get cash, is called a cash-advance and it usually comes with extremely high fees and higher than normal apr that make it not very attractive for people to use, and downright predatory for people that don’t know about the high fees.

For example, here’s what capital one says about it:

https://www.capitalone.com/help-center/credit-cards/get-cash-advance/

So maaaybe you’re not being charged this fee/apr, maybe you are, I’m not sure because i don’t use cashapp, but if you aren’t being charged this fee from cashapp or your credit card directly, its probably because cashapp is losing this money, trying to entice customers to its platform, as a “courtesy service” to its customers.

Digging into this further, here’s the fees I found for capital one:

"The Capital One cash advance interest rate is usually 29.99% (V). The interest rate applicable on cash advances is typically higher than what is charged for other card purchases and it will start accruing as soon as the advance is granted as there is no grace period for it.

You’ll also be charged with a cash advance fee of 3% or a $5 minimum."

So instead of paying 25% APR on your old balance, you’re now paying 30% APR with a 3% fee on the new balance.

https://wallethub.com/answers/cc/capital-one-cash-advance-fee-1000237-2140768055/

I now understand so much about my country if this is the financial literacy people have…

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Part of me says there’s no way the world agrees to participate in the Olympics in LA in 2028 based on how fascist we’re becoming, but then, Hitler had the Olympics in Nazi Germany and the world stage still came. So… Guess history repeats itself eh? Eh? Eh? God we’re so fucked.

Upon reading the Wikipedia page, only Ireland and Spain chose to sit that one out. But more nations showed up to Nazi Germany than the previous 1932 Olympics, 49 up from 37 nations. Fun!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics

The only way demand drops is when people die… So yah I guess this is about right…

Not a gimp expert or dev here, just a long time Linux user: presumably you’re editing an existing original image in gimp, right? What does the original image look like compared to the saved gimp image when viewed with mint’s photo viewer? Do they both have the same level of saturation? Just trying to rule out Mint’s photo viewer unintentionally adding the saturation, or gimp removing the saturation when viewing in gimps editor, etc.

Also what happens when you open the already saved gimp image, in gimp again? Does it look just as saturated as viewing in mint’s photo viewer, or does it look like the left side of your picture here?

Lmao trying to hide porn in the late 90’s early 2000’s is what taught me the concept of steganography. There was a windows app you could hide a file vault in an image using steganography, I tried it but eventually the file got corrupted and my stash was ruined, lol.

Would you mind elaborating on why go for an older pro vs newer -a model?

Mixed with syncthing to sync your database file across your devices and its chef’s kiss

I’m not sure I would agree for arch if the OP wants low maintenance. I’ve never run it myself, but the way I’ve heard arch described is the further you go without regular updates the more likely you are to have a problem when you do update.