Oh, now you done did it!!! Them's fight'n words. 
Of course there's never enough food at the buffet regardless of the quality. 
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Kids I swear!! You give them ice cream, they want pizza. Calgon take me away!!!
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Plasma 5.26 has landed. Includes new features for widgets (and new and renewed widgets), wallpapers that adapt to the theme, better support for XWayland apps on Wayland, and a lot more...
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Why The Question You Asked SUCKS! - YouTube news because new video
Maybe add this to some important place in the forum?
(Where discussion topic or tag?)
People do not read the template or the stuff on download page, do you think they will read the text above? 
Do you think these people watch a 13 minute video?
BTW, we prefer here in forum
Easily found again under
https://start.garudalinux.org/
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Just when I was about to say I had seen it all...
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I am reading this as an insult, as I was never very good at Pong.
Damn you, PAGER!! 
On a more serious note, this scares the hell out of me. Look for the key words..."machine learning." Pretty soon the gov't is going to hack into my brain and know about all my ... porn stuff.
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What scared me about the Pong article, is that the braincells weren't playing against each other, they were playing Pong against the scientists. What's missing, however, is who was winning the most games--braincells or scientists?
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Not Linux, but still Tech news is what Dell wanted to do (and I let it) with my desktop machine (this one) with it's 'SupportAssist" technology. And that is to create and install a recovery partition on the existing Windows operating system SSD. It's in NTFS, reportedly 1.06 gigs and I haven't explored the partition other than looking at its primary stuff, but I find it very "interesting."
It is not Windows own "recovery" tool, and Dell said it does much more than that, now supplying a GUI and various file system tools in addition to they system recovery function.
Gee, I wonder if maybe they got this idea from...Linux? 
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Probably not. WinRE, the Windows Recovery Environment, supports modifications by OEM like additional drivers and additional recovery utilities. Custom recovery tools for Windows have been around for a while, since at least Windows 8.
Nothing beats a live Linux disc, though.
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LOL! Well, I suppose that goes a long ways in explaining my lack of familiarity with current Windows & OEM status.
I quit using Windows on all of my personal and often company business machines quite some time ago--well before Windows 8. It has only been within the past year that I began exploring Windows 10 and now 11. I have done that solely because Linux does not yet support 1080p (or higher) streaming from all of the services I subscribe to.
I'm only familiar with Linux recovery tools, having had occasion to use them due to operator-error.
Thanks for the clarification.
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The whole Rust thing
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yeah.....
and a google employee is in love with a living AI.
Alexa, translate for me "we want more money in marketing speak"
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Wow, that was a very interesting read! Knew Chrome was pretty spooky, but not that spooky. I wonder if the same sorta stuff happens with other Chromium browsers to the same or similar extent (that aren't Ungoogled Chromium)? 
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So... that Android and Chrome are kind of evil bitches I already knew, but reading the comic reinforces my will to switch to Lineage or /e/OS on my phone. Of course I don't use Chrome or Chromium or anything like that, have been using Firefox for decades by now and am happy with it.
Does anyone have experience with LineageOS? I do realize that my banking-app won't work there anymore. Probably will keep the Android-device only for that around turned off and only switched on when I need that app. But other than that, I don't think I use exclusive apps.
It's kinda strange how on the mobile market there are basically only two big players having the entire market share, one worse than the other.
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Wow. I avoided Chrome already but the comic and its references are just way too striking. I hope Chromium (with sign-in disabled) doesn't send as much data as Chrome.
If someone asks me why I use Firefox, I am sending this.
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The timecode might be important
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Well, not only this, but all the major brands do it. All the major brands!
And, recently, even some country governments started doing it .... coughs
I would say, stay away from technology as much as comfortably possible. I mean use only as much as necessary. One should prevent mindless scrolling on any device, on any website. It doesn't matter which website, which device are you using. No device is secure, no company is reliable imho.
They always have a privacy policy, and literally nobody reads it before accepting, except very very few people. That gives them immense power to control the world.
I myself have reduced my smart phone usage, as much as possible....
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