NixOS is probably a bit more confusing than most Linux distros, but it has a huge amount of advantages too. It has very up to date software and probably never has dependency issues.
Hard disagree. Hate speech shouldn't be censored. I believe in freedom of speech. Prosecuting people for "hate speech" misunderstands what freedom of speech is.
As long as you don't threaten direct harm to a particular individual, you should not be censored or punished for it. If you do threaten harm to a particular person, you should not be censored but instead restrained, and what you said should be noted down and preserved for the date of a fair trial.
One person being upset shouldn't mean the other (who didn't know any better) has to spend the rest of their formative years in prison.
It was a conspiracy theory. So were Edward Snowden's documents. Hating conspiracy theories in general is an incredibly stupid take.
Yes to all your questions.
I've never blocked anyone. Maybe I would if they were spamming me on a chat for a very long time or getting super personal, and I would probably stop engaging if I didn't have the time or energy for them anyway, but that's pretty much irrelevant to what I think your point is.
I wouldn't care if I encountered your hypothetical forum post. Granted, I'm not black, but that doesn't affect what I'm saying much, especially when so many black people have already encountered a lot of racism in their lives.
Anyway, people can have whatever dating preferences they want. Just because you don't want to date someone doesn't mean you think of them as less of a person than anyone else. Do you hate your parents because you don't want to fuck them? The comment was admittedly written almost certainly by a racist, but I actually still don't think racist comments should be removed. Most mods do a little bit too much in my eyes, because it's kind of in their nature.
Usually it's highly uneducated people who go online trying to upset people or spread hate all the time, so why don't more educated community members try to teach them? They might not want to listen, but they'll probably go away if they don't.
Generally I think people need to stay level-headed on forums. Your mental health is always more important than what some idiot says online, so remember to take a break whenever you need to. Welcome to forums.
I'm not a Linux admin, but I think there are certifications you can get and exams you can take to show you understand stuff about shell scripting and related topics, if that's what you're interested in.
I think they have questions like "Make it so a welcome message and the time display when someone logs into your Linux server", among other, harder things.
I don't know a huge amount about the job market, but just saying you have those kinds of skills on your CV along with a bit of experience in some other tech/coding/data stuff might even be enough.
Right, but they could define a special behaviour so it doesn't immediately run a script you click on. It is kinda your fault if you get got by this, but it would be a bit more secure with mitigations in place.
Not every "conspiracy theory" is something stupid and made up. Have you not heard of MK Ultra?
There's a good chance some governments are still doing stuff like that, and I'm sure if you found some evidence of something like that and started talking about it, you would be silenced on any major platform because of these laws.
Also, if someone posts something online you think is dumb, do you really think it should just be deleted? Do you think that helps anyone?
Also it's easier to just exploit the keylogger in Windows I would imagine. At the very least make sure you don't select the "express settings" (or whatever it's called) in the Windows installer.
There's a setting called something like "improve typing suggestions" that basically says it sends everything you type to Microsoft. They admit it has a preinstalled keylogger and has for a while.
I think the Online Safety Act recently passed in the UK does technically make proper encryption illegal. Chat platforms are supposed to comply when UK law enforcement asks for logs, and it says something about them needing to be "readable".
This probably mainly just means they should be able to use the backdoors in major platforms. It would be very difficult for them to go after every obscure xmpp provider or whatever, and so far they haven't.
The law says lots of other dumb and quite dystopian stuff like policies every "social media platform" has to follow, which seem to really misunderstand how the internet works. The UK would need to block itself off from most of the internet for any of this to work. One of the main chat platforms I use is just a computer in some German tech enthusiast's house (I think).
Thankfully, Labour got into power in the recent election instead of Conservatives. Their candidate was often called a "Tory with a red tie" since he didn't believe in as serious left-wing policies as other, failed Labour candidates like Jeremy Corbyn. The point though is that hopefully they won't be dropping many more laws like the "Online Safety" ("Ahhh, protect the children because any website can have porn D:") Act.
Ofcom is supposedly in the stages of putting the law into practice though. I hope nothing extreme happens to the UK, but it all sounds pretty horrible to me.
Seems like your file worked properly and they were just a bit initially confused by it, but obviously you should export as whatever file format you're asked to if it's been requested of you.
Did the document have lots of equations, pictures or tables in it? Do the documents you make tend to?
Ubuntu is based on Debian, although they made quite extensive changes over time. Ubuntu and Mint are very similar, but Ubuntu is owned by a corporation called Canonical that people have had a few concerns about the priorities of, whereas Mint is community ran.
I've found that Libreoffice Calc in particular tends to deal with Excel files very well. It can do everything I've ever needed to do in Excel. The browser version of MS Office is good for full compatibility if you have access to it, but can be a bit annoying to use.
MS Word and Libreoffice Write never seemed to understand each other's file formats well for me, especially if you insert equations in text. You can end up with weird formatting that's laborious to correct. It might be best to avoid Libreoffice Write, especially for technical stuff, unless it's improved a lot since then. The online MS Office could help you a lot there.
Latex is arguably the best for that sort of thing, but can be hard to use, since you have to learn it. Still, anyone should be able to open a pdf and get consistent results.
WPS Office is another option but I've never used it. It has official support for a surprising number of operating systems and seems to work well on different file formats. I've seen someone else use it with no complaints, and it does have official Linux support, even though it's a commercial proprietary software, which can be inconvenient.
They are a form of law enforcement by definition.