That’s what I ended up doing. A dumb monitor is just fine, as long as you don’t need a huuuge screen. The main thing is to find a good external speaker though that doesn’t auto-sleep in the middle of one’s show…

Hmm, more yummy mushrooms in autumn here, so that wins for me.

Which came first, Weeping Angels or SCP-173?

Heaven forbid journalists do… you know, their jobs?

True. I hope it bubbles up to those who have ‘more to lose’ and they put country over career and party.

Fair point – she had the courage and 100% deserves credit for that! I wish more had her strength.

‘former officials’

… it isn’t courageous and won’t mean anything until CURRENT officials do the same, en masse. They’re mostly too scared of losing their cushy positions. Cowards.

A GIF of a ship? Oh, and an MP3 of “Message In A Bottle” by The Police?

Canada has always used paper, hand-counted ballots. Why anyone would trust their elections to machines which can be sabotaged is beyond me. Perhaps use them to check human-counted results, not the other way 'round.

Takes too long? Recruit more volunteers. Or, heaven forbid, pay them. Something this important deserves the resources to do it transparently and accurately.

Or, please consider Devuan as well, to ensure there are distros without hard dependencies on systemd, an expansive attempt to cement IBM/RedHat’s control over the direction of Linux through foundational changes to the init, filesystem, login, homedir, and other components…

Please don’t bother replying to change my mind… never gonna like systemd no matter what. If it works for you, fine. Some of us still find it wholly unnecessary.