Funny how none of these people have any idea how this works.

Lightnings are electrical arcs (i.e. channels of ionized air for electrons to go through) that are caused by very high voltages between clouds and the earth, which are generated by triboelectric effect (particles rubbing against each other, exchanging electrons, and gaining electrical potential), because of convection currents between hot and cold regions of the atmosphere… Which in turn creates electric field around the ground and the clouds, thus ionizing the air around them. That makes it conductive, and, finally, the spark jumps across the ionized portion of the air and makes a lightning. But neither of those points can keep supplying electrons to keep the arc going, so it ceases quickly. That’s the one reason why this cannot be a lightning of any kind (hence, ball lightnings don’t exist).

Also, as I mentioned earlier, the arc has to jump across two points of high potential, it can’t just arc in the middle!

So, what is happening there? Well, I don’t know for sure, but here is my theory: it’s actually just two high-voltage power lines arcing. And the “ball” is so far away, that it is almost on the horizon, which makes it look like it is nearly on the ground.

A bit late, but you might find useful information in this book: http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd.onion/opsec. Not all of it might be relevant to you, i.e. you are probably not doing anything that would require plausible deniability, and probably some other things. But it has some really good info, in my opinion.

You can’t. Some might say that the less adversaries monitor you the better. But you will never be private unless you ditch all the proprietary software and practice good opsec on the internet and in real life. Hate to break it to you, but privacy is fundamentally a binary thing: you are either spied upon or you are not, regardless if it’s one hundred companies or just one.

Few people can be sure of that, because it would require digging in their assembly code which can take a lot of time, but they have a financial incentive to do that and they love money, so all sane people assume that they very much do. And they also get caught sometimes (multiple times!), so thinking they would just stop would be foolish.

I don’t undurstand how Graphene can bigger than Linux on this list.

VPNs know who you are and what websites you visit, so no privacy nor anonymity there. With Tor… It’s complicated. That’s why we have guides like this: http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd.onion/opsec.

So, you’re basically saying that doing things the way you think works the best and not being afraid of new things, instead of simply choosing the path of least resistance gets you on the autism spectrum? If that’s the case, then I think “normal” might be the biggest lie I’ve ever been told.

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The one that OP asked to “confirm”.

Don’t like it for one simple reason: no integration with the distribution. Flatpak is this sort universal solution that works, but doesn’t necessarily work hand-in-hand with the distro, unlike package managers.

Are you the Dell or the Kubernetes :P

I don’t talk much outside of English-speaking communities, but I can say with confidence that I’ve never heard that.

More like… Google Dox! Ha, ha… That was really bad, but I couldn’t help myself. I’m sorry :3

Cool. Now I realized I sound like an idiot who posts before doing proper research. Regardless, thank you for letting me know.

We already have that?

Yeah, you’re right about the larger ones. But smaller ones don’t really need quality control, in my opinion. So perhaps they would add a toggle?

What do you mean by “how”? Maybe by time posted or by last reply in that community, that sounds like an okay choice.

It could be organized by community and I don’t believe curation is necessary.

Edit: Posts. Posts could be organized by community.

They should really just remove up/down -votes.

And less stable than Arch, and more bloated than Ubuntu… If that is something you want for whatever reason! It is the most versatile distro in existance because it’s literally anything you want it to be - clean and nice, or total chaos. What is there not to love?

Gentoo <3