My tip would be to try a few distros before you settle on one. Ubuntu was it for me about seven years ago, but I used mint for a few years and am using MX with xfce now.
Also, sudo !! is pretty useful when you forget to sudo the previous command. It means "super user do the last command I just boneheadedly forgot to do that to"
I think you missed all the important bits related to the headline:
A businessman cheated a council out of tens of millions of pounds and went on a spending spree with the cash, an investigation has discovered.
Leaked documents reveal how Liam Kavanagh used Thurrock Council's money to buy luxury goods, including a yacht and a private jet.
The council has been made effectively bankrupt after investing £655m in Mr Kavanagh's solar farm business.
Mr Kavanagh's lawyers say all the payments were permissible.
They say they were approved by his company's finance team and auditor.
Thurrock is one of a number of councils that have got into financial difficulties since the coalition government gave local authorities more freedom to raise funds and invest in 2011.
Woking, Slough and Croydon have all been forced to stop all non-essential spending after losing public money on risky investments.
The Audit Commission - a spending watchdog that stopped councils taking too many risks - was abolished in 2015.
Conservative-led Thurrock Council started investing cash with Mr Kavanagh's business Rockfire the following year.
The idea was that the council would get regular interest payments from the profits and its cash would be safe because it was secured against the value of the solar farms.
But the interest payments stopped after Mr Kavanagh wound up his companies and the estimated value of the solar farms is less than the council thought.
Administrators are now selling the solar farms and Thurrock is facing a £200m shortfall on its investment.
The council has been forced to cut services and put up council tax.
If you are willing to use Signal, you already don't mind a tiny userbase, so why not use Session (or maybe Matrix) and enjoy privacy, security, AND anonymity?
Signal has always been clear that privacy!=anonymity and regards people who want both as both stupid and unusual. Its always been a weird dance to watch.
When I unblock the Facebook address, the app opens as expected.
I'm not blocking any NTP. My home servers rely on it (just TrueNAS checks time every 3 minutes...), but I do block DNS outbound to force using my own DNS.
As corroborated by leaked CIA cables provided by Wikileaks, there was no fighting in Tiananmen Square. No students were executed, and no tanks drove over people.
I didn't tag anyone--its a link to the support community. If you don't get any traction in a day or so, you can look at some of the names of admins posting in there and tag them with "@user@lemmy.world"
You still on the list of folks we can tag for squatters? There's another post in !general@lemmy.world about a user squatting on dozens more cmmunities.
I've had BT disconnect issues on a 2015 HP EB 840 G2 paired with my ancient Logitech UE speaker. Not sure if it's the implementation of bluez on mxlinux or my actual bt hardware on the laptop. The result for me is similar to yours: laptop is flaky, so my phone remains my playback source of choice.
A literal shower thought