FWIW, I have a galp5, and had a lot of stability issues with Pop. I used it for well over a year, as I thought using their own OS on the machine they sold me would give the best results. Ultimately I spent a lot of time opening support tickets, and trying to work around issues (desktop stuttering, crashes, touchpad randomly would stop responding, etc). I did not find their support team particularly helpful. I finally installed stock Ubuntu, and it’s been significantly more stable.

I don’t plan to buy from them again. If I were buying now, I’d be looking at Framework (probably their upcoming, larger model with the dedicated GPU).

What are you trying to use it for? If you just need basic mapping, you might look at Organic Maps.

Paraphrasing the waiter rule: a state that abuses any of it’s residents is not a nice state. Yes, quality of life is a relative scale, but I think it’s fair to put the states actively making worse the lives of it’s citizens (marginalized or not) at the bottom of the list.

Your right to a jury trial depends on the service of your fellow citizens, as well as the judge, etc.

Your right to vote depends on the service of many volunteers to work the polls, count votes, etc.

Rights are granted and protected by governments; whether they require a service is irrelevant.

That sidesteps my point, which was that “rights” are granted by governments (the first of those two, jury trial, is literally in “The Bill of Rights”). You can disagree about what should be a right, and in a country with a democratic procedure for determining rights, you can vote to change what is considered a right, but whether it requires a service or not is irrelevant.

Healthcare requiring service does not preclude it from being a right.

Where do they come from?

I like pass, It’s just a wrapper around standard tools - gpg encrypted files in a directory, with git for version control. You can organize the subfolders however you’d like, and store whatever you want in them. You can sync the files across systems however you’d like - copy/paste, rsync, network drive… You can even go as far as to install a git server, e.g. gitlab, and clone, push, and pull into password synchronization bliss.

We can measure it in the release of hormones and watch our minds react to it in MRI. We can see it in our behavior and in the behavior of those who love us. A dozen different people can look at a couple in love and agree, “yup. That’s love.”

These are all true with respect to deities as well. We can watch brains light up on an MRI when someone prays/meditates/reads scripture; religions (purposefully) influence the way people live their lives; multiple people can credit a deity for something they see or experience.

“I know it when I see it” isn’t a good evidential standard, but it’s the best one we have for abstract concepts.

I think it’s a mistake to allow people claiming the existence of a deity to call it an “abstract concept.” At best, they could claim the way you “feel” (experience) a deity is abstract (as are all feelings, hence the question about love), but the deity itself is not. Religions, in general, insist on a specific deity with a specific feature set be worshipped in a specific way, to attain specific benefits and avoid specific punishment. Calling that abstract is a cover, a tactic, a bad faith argument designed to trip people up. It’s akin to a strawman, in that it gets people attacking the wrong thing - defining or failing to define love doesn’t get anyone any closer to proving or disproving the existence of a deity.

I switched to Liftoff because is this.

See https://youtu.be/GCVJsz7EODA and https://youtu.be/V82lHNsSPww

There are a few problems, but I believe the biggest issue is that .zip and .mov are valid and common file extensions, and it’s common for people to write something like ‘example dot zip’ or ‘attachment dot mov’ in emails, tweets, etc. Things like email clients have features where they automatically convert text that looks like a web address into clickable links. So now, retroactively, all those emails etc suddenly have a link, where they used to just have text, and the domains that are equivalent to those previously benign file names are being purchased by nefarious actors to exploit people unaware of the issue.