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About 5% of the male population died in that war. Shermans march through the south was particularly guesome. The south is a different culture then the north then and now. The cival war is still part of the south. Then there is the racism piece.

This is the answer. GrapheneOS still needs the binary blob updates from Google or probably more correctly Googles suppliers.

You have to be channel selective. There are popular channels I stopped following because of the propaganda issue for example. There are whole lemmy nodes that my node does not federate with for various reasons. The fediverse is a diverse shit show as a whole but one can choose to not follow crap or federate with nodes that allow crap. People can publish what they want but I do not have to listen to it. Nodes can moderate but if people do not like it, they can move to a node that better suits them. This diversity of content plus ability to filter the crap is a the huge power of Lemmy.

Learn about mutual funds and ETFs. I think the EU has these. Learn about 3 fund portfolios and the Bogehead approach. Adapt it to the EU. Avoid individual securities except bonds are sometimes useful.

This is why I do not use a rolling release distro.

Life has the meaning you choose to give it.

Why do you think someone 80 should dress any differenty? 80 is not even that old. My mom is like 95 and dresses the same pretty much she did decades ago.

As far as makeup and nails, that often looks foolish at any age.

Checkout this podcast which has an interesting take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o069oHLvDkg

Basically, they conclude that we all know who is implicated already and this is just a lot of meaningless distraction. They go on the point out that people from both parties are involved, and that even know we know by in large there has been no consequences and there is unlikely to be any.

Actually the safest thing is probably to choose a main system and run the other in a VM like with VirtualBox. For you, you could just install VirtualBox on Windows then Linux inside of a VirtualBox VM. Windows does have a builtin Virtualization solution too you may be able to use, but I have personally never done that. Keep in mind too that VMs are not as performant as bare metal. For video probably NO, for images fine, for audio maybe but you’ll have to see if you get the real-time timing you need in a VM. Good way to play in any case. 2nd best if you have a workstation, not a laptop, you could put in a hot mount SATA drive enclosure, and just swap in the drive you want and get full bear metal performance. Dual boot takes some tech skill. Be sure to back everything up if you do that. Should do that anyway before fiddling. Also if you use bitlocker and secure boot make sure you have all your recovery keys and know how to work with your bios settings too.

Maybe I am missing something, not sure why you care about NTFS. If this is a separate computer you don’t really care about that, just the sharing protocol (SMB for example). If it is on the main box, then you’d probably convert this to Ext4 or something similar. No reason to stick with NTFS with Linux. There are a lot of great FS options on linux plus BTRFS, LVM, or RAID to if you want redundancy.

Regarding apps. The alternativeto site is great. Linux has a bunch of audio and photo software. If your a pro, you may not find any of it sufficient. Especially a lot of people cannot do without Photoshop. The common quoted photo programs are GIMP and Darktable. There are many other photo and image programs. Common audio program is Audacity. Again, there are many others. Looks like some handle vst but I have no personal experience.

Keep in mind that you actually do have control over what you and your reports use for software and their license compliance. Otherwise not your problem. Beyond that, it is an issue for legal anyway and management.