This “just use linux” mentality is peak broke-brain logic.

You think spending an hour every day troubleshooting and googling how to fix it is some badge of honor? Congrats, you saved $0 and burned the only free hour you had after work. Hope the "Freedom" was worth it.

Linux isn’t free. It costs time, energy, and attention — the three things high-performers guard with their life. Compile time, Maintenance, debugging, dependancies, cleanup — you’re bleeding hours to save pennies. That’s not frugality, that’s time poverty.

You’re not a developer. You’re a tired guy distro hopping at 10pm convincing yourself it’s “self care.” Meanwhile someone else paid $100 for Windows, finished a deck, hit the gym, and got 8 hours of sleep. But hey, you configured your system by hand. King shit.

And don’t even start with the “but privacy!” cope. 90% of y’all using Linux aren’t toppling goverments or hacking banks. You’re watching Youtube, checking Gmail, Twitter, and scrolling the same niche subreddit every night. You’re not optimizing for privacy, you’re optimizing for feeling morally superior while wasting time.

Time is the only real flex. You get more of it by buying it back. If that costs $100 for Windows, that’s a steal. If you’re in any field where leverage matters — CAD, Excel, Adobe — and you’re still compiling Linux from scratch like it’s 1999, you’re not serious.

This isn’t about being rich. It’s about understanding what moves the needle. High-output people don’t micromanage their PCs — they outsource. You want to be productive? Stop pretending Linux is a virtue. It’s not. It’s a time sink.

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A Norwegian tourist has accused American authorities of denying him entry into the U.S. because he had a popular meme of JD Vance saved on his phone.

Mads Mikkelsen, 21, told his hometown newspaper Nordlys that he was subjected to “abuse of power and harassment” by officials at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Mikkelsen claims that immigration officials stopped him for questioning and quizzed him “about drug trafficking, terrorist plots, and right-wing extremism,” all of which he said was “totally without reason.” He says he was placed in a holding cell.

Tourist Claims He Was Denied Entry to U.S. Because of Vance Meme on Phone

Mads Mikkelsen, 21, claims he was pressured into granting access to his phone at Newark Airport. Agents then uncovered a popular meme of the vice president.

^{Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)}

The Trump administration's push to rapidly amass sensitive personal information about hundreds of millions of people living in the U.S. is extending to a rich new vein of information: troves of databases run by states. In some instances, the data could be leveraged to enhance the federal government's immigration enforcement efforts — a break with longstanding norms and practices that also raises legal questions.

"Every week we're seeing new examples of this administration demanding or sharing sensitive government data for unprecedented uses," said Nicole Schneidman, who heads the technology and data governance team at Protect Democracy, a nonprofit legal center that describes its mission as "defeating the authoritarian threat."

Schneidman said Americans should understand "the data that they have entrusted to state governments right now is truly a target."

The Trump administration's push to rapidly amass sensitive personal information about hundreds of millions of people living in the U.S. is extending to a rich new vein of information: troves of databases run by states. In some instances, the data could be leveraged to enhance the federal government's immigration enforcement efforts — a break with longstanding norms and practices that also raises legal questions.

"Every week we're seeing new examples of this administration demanding or sharing sensitive government data for unprecedented uses," said Nicole Schneidman, who heads the technology and data governance team at Protect Democracy, a nonprofit legal center that describes its mission as "defeating the authoritarian threat."

Schneidman said Americans should understand "the data that they have entrusted to state governments right now is truly a target."

An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).

Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August

Stay secure with Windows 11, Copilot+ PCs and Windows 365 before support ends for Windows 10

When we launched Windows in 1985, we set out to revolutionize computing—guided by the belief that technology should be accessible, intuitive and powerful for everyone. Nearly 40 years later, that same vision continues to drive us forward. Today, Wi

^{Windows Experience Blog}

An enrollment wizard will be available through notifications and in Settings, making it easy to enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC. Through the enrollment wizard, you’ll be able to choose from three options:
- Use Windows Backup to sync your settings to the cloud—at no additional cost..
- Redeem 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points
- Pay $30 USD (local pricing may vary).

Once you select an option and follow the on-screen steps, your PC will automatically be enrolled. ESU coverage for personal devices runs from Oct. 15, 2025, through Oct. 13, 2026. Starting today, the enrollment wizard is available in the Windows Insider Program and will begin rolling out as an option to Windows 10 customers in July, with broad availability expected by mid-August

Stay secure with Windows 11, Copilot+ PCs and Windows 365 before support ends for Windows 10

When we launched Windows in 1985, we set out to revolutionize computing—guided by the belief that technology should be accessible, intuitive and powerful for everyone. Nearly 40 years later, that same vision continues to drive us forward. Today, Wi

^{Windows Experience Blog}

Warning: incoming rant.

Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year, according to new data reported by The New York Times.

Due to AI, the traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise. It's the résumé equivalent of AI slop—call it "hiring slop," perhaps—that currently haunts social media and the web with sensational pictures and misleading information. The flood of ChatGPT-crafted résumés and bot-submitted applications has created an arms race between job seekers and employers, with both sides deploying increasingly sophisticated AI tools in a bot-versus-bot standoff that is quickly spiraling out of control.

The Times illustrates the scale of the problem with the story of an HR consultant named Katie Tanner, who was so inundated with over 1,200 applications for a single remote role that she had to remove the post entirely and was still sorting through the applications three months later.

The last time I got a job without a prior connection was in 2012, and it (audiobook conversion) wasn't even in my field.

When I quit my job in January 2020 (great timing), it took two-and-a-half years, and after sending out more than a thousand applications across several industries -- after using two different companies for ATS résumé optimization -- I eventually only got a job as a billing clerk because I met the owner of a logistics concern in a detox program.

I'm focusing squarely on networking outside of events designed for it. Honestly, the grueling online process is a step up from being told in person that you're missing a key skill, with each hiring manager listing a different skill.

My résumé isn't linear, because I've been stuck in a cycle of finding emergency jobs since a newspaper layoff in 2006. There were a few papers in there, but man, have they liked their layoffs for decades now.

Searching on LinkedIn and Indeed are pointless, and the smaller job boards are scarcely better, given that they want a single career track, no deviations. Nobody wants a polymath, and even after removing early positions, gauging my age is easy enough -- aging into a protected class didn't help.

And the last time I got a job simply by walking in, résumé in hand, was 2010.

Add to this the sheer volume of ghost jobs online, messages from "recruiters" who start out seemingly interested in my background but are actually MLM "be your own boss" types, and the whole experience is not only a timesink but aggressively dehumanizing.

If you can't be honest during the hiring process, why on Earth should I trust you as an employee?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-06-24/will-trump-push-nato-toward-collapse-at-summit

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https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-disappeared-377000-people-gaza-half-are-children

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After 40 months of waging full-scale war on Ukraine, Putin condemns ‘unprovoked aggression against Iran.’ Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians, and the true extent of the death toll is simply not known.

Zelensky arrives in UK to boost defense cooperation as Russia intensifies attacks against Ukraine. Zelensky’s visit comes just a few hours after yet another Russian attack on Kyiv, which killed at least seven.

Ukraine returns bodies of 3 Russian soldiers repatriated as remains of Ukrainians, Interior Ministry says. Ukraine has said the practice of passing off the bodies of Russian soldiers as Ukrainian is part of an attempt to obscure the scale of its military losses from the Russian public.

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Ukraine strikes Atlas oil depot in Russia’s Rostov Oblast, General Staff says. The facility supplies fuel and lubricants to Russian military units.

Lion attacks collaborator at safari park in Russian-occupied Crimea. Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, Oleg Zubkov renounced his Ukrainian citizenship and began cooperating with the Russian authorities.

Russia ordered 2 assassination attempts on popular journalist Dmytro Gordon, Ukraine security service says. Dmytro Gordon, a prominent Ukrainian journalist and YouTube host with 4.5 million subscribers, is known for his sharp criticism of Russian aggression.

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Even after Ukraine cut diplomatic ties with Russia in 2022, prisoner exchanges have continued as one of the few remaining channels of communication between the two countries.

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Ukraine war latest: Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 9, injures 33

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones, 11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles.

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‘It was impossible to look at‘ — Russian mass missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills at least 9, injures 33. Russia launched a wave of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv and surrounding region overnight on June 23.

Russian attacks on Sumy Oblast kill 3 people, including 8-year-old boy. Russian forces launched a drone attack on Sumy Oblast overnight on June 24, killing three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring three others, Governor Oleh Hryhorov reported.

2 killed, 12 injured in Russian missile strike on Odesa Oblast. The attack targeted a local educational institution and destroyed the building, Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper said.

International response

Serbia halts all arms exports amid Russian scrutiny over Ukraine. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on June 23 that Serbia has halted all arms exports, denying that the move was in response to Russian criticism over munitions reportedly reaching Ukraine.

Aerospace giant Airbus to train Ukrainian specialists in aircraft maintenance. As part of the deal, Airbus will send representatives to Ukraine to train local specialists, who will then become certified instructors for aircraft maintenance.

Zelensky, Starmer hail ‘massive step forward‘ in military cooperation. During a joint visit to a U.K. military training site for Ukrainian personnel, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he and Zelensky held “an excellent bilateral meeting” and had agreed to an “industrial military co-production agreement.”

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Trump downplays Iran’s missile strikes on US bases in Iraq and Qatar, calls response ‘very weak.’ At least 10 missiles were fired at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and at least one toward a base in Iraq, Axios reported.

Exclusive: Ukrainian deputy prime minister suspected of corruption says he won’t step down. Ukrainian minister and deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov has been formally named a suspect in a high-profile illegal land grab case, becoming the highest-ranking official in Ukrainian history to face such charges.

Ukrainian energy giant to build $115 million solar program with British partner. Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK and British clean energy group Octopus Energy have launched a program to install rooftop solar panels and battery storage systems at Ukrainian businesses and public institutions, DTEK announced in a press release on June 23.

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When President Trump ordered a military strike on Iran’s nuclear program, he was confronting a crisis that the United States unwittingly set in motion decades ago by providing Tehran with the seeds of nuclear technology.

Tucked into Tehran’s northern suburbs is a small nuclear reactor used for peaceful scientific purposes, which has so far not been a target of Israel’s campaign to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.

The Tehran Research Reactor’s real significance is symbolic: It was shipped to Iran by the United States in the 1960s, part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” program that shared nuclear technology with U.S. allies eager to modernize their economies and move closer to Washington in a world divided by the Cold War.

Today, the reactor does not contribute to Iran’s enrichment of uranium, the arduous process that purifies the raw ingredient of nuclear bombs into a state that can sustain a massive chain reaction. It runs on nuclear fuel far too weak to power a bomb. Several other nations, including Pakistan, bear at least as much responsibility for Iran’s march to the threshold of nuclear weapons capability, experts say.

A pre-revolution Iran is nigh impossible to envision.

After 20 years, being able to look at any corner of the planet in Google Earth doesn't seem that impressive, but it was a revolution in 2005. Google Earth has gone through a lot of changes in that time, and Google has some more lined up for the service's 20th anniversary. Soon, Google Earth will help you travel back in time with historic Street View integration, and pro users will get some new "AI-driven insights"—of course Google can't update a product without adding at least a little AI.

Google Earth began its life as a clunky desktop client, but that didn't stop it from being downloaded 100 million times in the first week. Today, Google Earth is available on the web, in mobile apps, and in the Google Earth Pro desktop app. However you access Earth, you'll find a blast from the past.

For the service's 20th anniversary, Google was inspired by a social media trend from last year in which people shared historical images of locations in Google Maps. Now, Google Earth is getting a "time travel" interface where you can see historical Street View images from almost any location.

God, this makes me feel old. I remember when it first came out (I most likely learned about it from Ars) ... I was living with my girlfriend who would later become my first wife, and I was glued to my tower while she was at her desk on her laptop.

We showed each other the places we'd lived over the years -- like, individual buildings -- and that out of the way, we started exploring and calling each other over for interesting finds.

I'm pretty certain we lost a solid two days. It's hard to believe, now, that the post-9/11 world was "simpler times." Back then, everyone in our age bracket longed for the stability and simplicity of pre-election 2000.

Google rolls out Street View time travel to celebrate 20 years of Google Earth

Google Earth wowed everyone 20 years ago, and it’s still pretty cool.

^{Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)}

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/24/iran-demands-security-council-condemn-us-violations-of-international-law/

I'm looking for an easy to use, light weight app to connect to my local SMB share (via username and password).

Any suggestions?

The "big" ones either cost or are shit.

A longtime government lawyer told Congress that Justice Department leaders planned to knowingly defy court orders and withhold information from judges to advance the Trump administration's aggressive deportation goals, according to a newly published whistleblower complaint.

The lawyer, Erez Reuveni, previously won awards and commendations over nearly 15 years at the Justice Department, including from Republican appointees in the first Trump administration. But he was put on leave and then fired in April after he told a federal judge an immigrant had been deported in error.

Reuveni ultimately decided to blow the whistle to lawmakers and watchdogs at the Justice Department and the Office of Special Counsel, detailing what he called defiance and noncompliance in three separate immigration cases this year. His accusations add to broader concern about the Trump administration's repeated clashes with the judiciary over immigration and other policies.

Florida has begun building a detention centre - dubbed the 'Alligator Alcatraz' - to temporarily hold migrants on an air strip in the Everglades.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the facility would be funded "in large part" by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's shelter and services programme, which was previously used to provide accommodation and other aid for undocumented migrants.

The mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniela Levine Cava, a Democrat, criticised the plan, saying "the impacts to the Everglades ecosystem could be devastating".

The Florida Everglades are a unique environmental region comprising marshes, prairies, forests, mangroves and estuaries. Uthmeier said the facility would not be located within Everglades National Park.

'Alligator Alcatraz': Florida building migrant detention centre in Everglades

The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.

^{Ali Abbas Ahmadi (BBC News)}