I don’t like it any more than you do. But a former president is still a very significant national security concern. Assassination is quite honestly the most minor concern there is for a former president. Extortion, blackmail, sabotage, espionage, all these things (and more) become a viable threat once USSS protection is gone. There’s a reason why we protect our former POTUS.
I work with Linux and computers professionally. Documentation is written but almost nobody reads it. I can’t count the number of times I’ve bailed out colleagues stuck on a problem by spending a few hours reading the docs and then like magic some parameter in the API solves everything. I’ve been bailed out countless times in the same way. Software and computers are complex and even those who do RTFM miss things, because documentation is information dense, often written as an afterthought to the code, and APIs are not always even internally consistent with the documentation.
But the toxicity culture around that needs to go. I love it when people geek out over distro-hopping and whatnot, but superiority complexes over what distro you use (“Arch, btw I’m so much better than you”) is fucking stupid.
Hmm. Attorney charges by the hour and at least 3 discovery hours will be attributed to the time spent learning to exit vim let alone exit with preserving changes.
He should not be allowed to leave US soil. Too many security vulnerabilities that our enemies would love to exploit. Once he’s gone; especially if to a non-friendly nation-state; it becomes near impossible to secure.
At least with him here he can be monitored and babysat by highly-trained security personnel.
Don’t worry, no Americans need to buy these. Putin will buy all of them —off the books of course. In an unrelated incident, there were reports of a large fire on DJT’s Mar a Lago property next week.
It’s just a fancy list of fancy lists! :D