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I'm using a combination of Postfix and Cyrus IMAPd.

Granted, probably not what OP was asking for, but privacy wise, this is almost certainly more water tight than any of the other options.

Right, the head twit, the one who "doesn't need" to ever consult with domain experts from his own companies, because he "knows" he's right about everything anyway...

Not necessarily, more like GoDaddy was the domain swatter that was holding on to that domain until Musk decided to pay the ransom. We cannot tell from the screenshot what registrar he uses for that domain now.

We can, however, tell from whois, and what do you know, it's godaddy...

In fairness, DNS entries do get cached for a while (usually 24 hours), so you might have gotten a stale version of the resource record. It's even entirely possible that whatever DNS resolver Musk uses did have the up to date version already while yours did not.

Still, Twitter should double and triple checked that this works even from other resolvers before announcing it like this.

Do you believe that law-related aspects related to this could or should just be ignored? Or that doing so would lead to positive outcomes down the road?

The older I get the more I think RMS is rather full of himself insisting that this OS must be called "GNU/Linux", or even just "GNU".

Here is my own take on the situation:

GNU was a - for its time - very ambitious project in the 1980s to create a UNIX-like free operating system, that never actually succeeded in its goal (ignoring some borderline unusable alpha versions of GNU/HURD that came out long after people stopped caring), but produced some useful general purpose computing tools in its attempt. When the first Linux distributions came out in the early nineties, they took many of those tools plus many other tools from other projects and bundled it together with many tools of their own for installing, booting and managing the whole thing into an actual, complete and working OS. These days, everything single one of those components from the GNU project can be and sometimes is replaced with something else while still keeping the whole thing recognizable as a Linux system.

To say the whole package is now "the GNU system" or "GNU, just with a Linux kernel" is borderline at best. If you squint a lot you can maybe see there's a point hidden in there somewhere, but presenting this interpretation of things as a straight-forward fact is disingenuous at best. The truth is, RMS tried to make an operating system but failed. (And all jokes and memes aside, Emacs is not actually a full operating system.) Later, other people who also wanted to create an operating system took some of the pieces from the GNU project, plus the Linux kernel, plus various other pieces from elsewhere, plus some stuff they wrote themselves and succeeded. Admittedly, their success was due to, in large part, those GNU components, but that does not mean that the resulting project is the GNU system.

The car also has a Dutch license plate. While I am generally a big proponent of bike friendly infrastructure, even at the expense of car amenities, the Dutch of all the people don't need any more prodding in that direction.

Fortunately for me, both my printer and scanner have worked flawlessly with Linux from day one (notwithstanding some CUPS shenanigans where it had problems finding USB printers, but that has nothing to do with the printer). Unfortunately for you, that means they are both fairly old already and probably not available as those specific models anymore.

My scanner is a Canon Canoscan LiDE 220. It's a fairly small model with a scan area just barely bigger than an A4 page. That suits me fine as someone who rarely actually scans stuff, as I can just stash it somewhere when I don't need it and pull it out when I do.

My printer is a Brother HL5340DL. It's about as big as you would expect for a personal laser printer (so not exactly handy anymore, but most people should be able to make it fit). It's ten years old now, cost somewhere around a hundred Euros when new, survived two moves and still works flawlessly, including the duplex function. When setting it up in CUPS, I found the generic PCL drivers to work much better than the Brother-specific ones. Just as a hint for others.

When looking for a scanner, check the SANE database: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

Edit: I forgot something, my scanner does not work "flawlessly" after all: If I scan at low or medium resolutions, the scan results get messed up. It looks like the scanner software gets confused about how long exactly each scan line is supposed to be and puts the line breaks in the wrong places. That's probably a bug in sane-backends, but I have never followed up on that one, because my workaround is simple and works fine for me: Just scan at 1200 dpi and then downscale stuff. Still a bug though, and saying the scanner works flawlessly would be wrong.

While I support the framework laptop, OP did also say under a thousand dollars. You cannot really get a framework laptop for that price.

Edit: Thousand, not hundred

Funny, over here in central Europe, I had no problem at all...

Any employer anywhere can fire you for a legal reason. Employers in at-will states can fire employees for no reason. In fact, that is the main practical distinction of at-will states in this regard, it's what "at will" means.

Even in an at-will state, an employer can still not fire you for an explicitly illegal reason, but unless they are stupid enough to tell you (it happens), good luck proving that it was for an illegal reason.

@OP, sure contact an employment lawyer, but ask if they provide a first consultation for free. I would not actually pay for a lawyer if I were you unless I were much more certain that there is a chance of success.

Unfortunate reality these days. An employer can be sued for firing people for the wrong reasons, so if they don't have to, they won't tell you any reasons, and if they do have to, they will make up bullshit ones.

VS is clearly an IDE, VSCode... is more arguable. For me, it's somewhere between a heavily souped up editor and an IDE. But that's just my opinion.

What is your region?

Batches 4 and 5 are also sold out by now.

Meanwhile, batches 8 and 9 have been added to the list. Looks like they did not anticipate this kind of success.

There are two people in there over 80, but the oldest baby boomers are "only" 77...

Uh, what's happening here? The post shows no content for me, and clicking on the title only redirects me back to the post itself. Yet other people in the comment section are talking as if there was some specific content here, other than just the title "ravages of socialism".

Am I missing something here? Is there a malfunction, or did OP edit their post after the fact so that the actual content is just gone?