Snort isn't notifying me of new messages. I guess I have to keep looking,

Okay, I started using Ubuntu yesterday. I keep getting this "Authentication required" popup. It doesn't matter if I give a password and hit unlock or just hit cancel. It doesn't disrupt anything else. So at this point it is just annoying, How do I fix it?

Wow. You have a mighty nice company. It sure would be a shame if something happened to it. How about I give you protection for half your business? - said a gangster Sometimes the mask just comes right off.

I know this is the wrong place to tech-brag but I don't know who else to share it with. My coworkers won't care, or perhaps even understand. I got my new (refurbished) Thinkpad T495S and installed Ubuntu on it. Looking back it was so easy, but from before that, it created serious apprehension that I might just brick it. BTW what's the best Linux client for Nostr?

Okay. I want to buy a notebook running on Linux. Where's can I buy one for Bitcoin? (Agorist Preferred) I normally use a Chromebook at home, and Windows at work. I have a little experience with Linux, running in a sandbox on my Chromebook) So this will be a transition for me, so it should do most things, doc, Web, coding without being very expensive. Any ideas or recommendations?

Is anyone here into IOTA? I have a seed from a few years back. I can't access it on my phone anymore. Is there a Linux system I could use? Please advise. PS I just want to flip out into Bitcoin.

Please explain to me how a consistent Christian can swear fidelity to a godless organization like the State. No one can serve two masters.

HODL what's good. #bitcoin

Voting brought us to this.

This podcast came over my feed this morning. No, I haven't listened to it, but it generated in me a thought. -- Whole milk has nutrition designed to take a ~50 pound calf to a 500lb full grown cow in six months. Maybe this isn't what humans should be nurtured on.

Yes, that's my comment.

You guys know this is not the first time FEMA has failed the American people. Right?

Your vote doesn't change the outcome of the election. It changes you.

I think it's more persuasive to remind people about the things they know, rather than overcome what they think.

So during the last election, if you had voted differently, would it have changed the outcome? ... It changes you.

Sunset in Minnesota

# Why should people vote for your preferred political party. Despite marginal differences between political parties. 1. Which party will stop committing war crimes? 2. Which party will observe all of the moral rights that people exercise? 3. Which party will stop coercive confiscation of personal property? 4. Which party will allow competition for monopoly government services?

# EVIL >One must choose the lesser of two evils. >-Pope Francis There is no "lesser evil", there is just evil. Voting is itself an evil act. The attempt to lord over others through a monopoly of violence and submitting to the winners if you lose the election is an evil gamble. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/pope-francis-trump-harris-abortion/index.html

# Voting changes you. > **when you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change, the devil changes you.**"

# All Tyrants > "Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could." > -Abigail Adams