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I'm not much of a gamer (I play chess, though), I only wanted to say I needed no 'fix' nor terminal in order to get my Mint to update to its latest versions ;)

Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel 6.8 whoch means you’ll be hitting the terminal to either upgrade to mainline kernel

The last two major updates of Mint were done through some GUI. There were a few warnings (about a few extra apps I had installed) but everything was done through that app and went smoothly. Edit: and so quickly (yeah, I'm looking at you, macOS)

or add extra repositories

I don't think I use extra repositories but I did add two PPAs and did it through the GUI 'Software Sources' that comes with Mint. I just checked, it also offers the option to add 'Additional repositories', if that means 'extra'?

Well regular soldiers also get hired to do that, the big difference is the employer, as a regular soldier you’re employed by the state, as a mercenary by a private entity.

Mercenary business is always at least a little shady, since they often get used for shady stuff.

I will quote myself:

It’s not a regular soldier (belonging in some nation’s army) but like more like a private contractor, hired by some nation, a private corp, a private group or even by wealthy individuals.

hired to do military activities (more or less openly, more or less legally)

I think we agree, right? ;)

• Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is US-based and I say that as a lifelong Firefox user, mind you. Waterfox is a UK-based fork of Firefox. Not owned by Mozilla. Also, based on Chromium (the open source part of Chrome) there is the cool Vivaldi browser (Norway).
• Why Ubuntu only? Promoting almost any GNU/Linux distro would be a good move. I will promote the one I'm using: Mint. I'm happy to say that everything works out of the box and have been working great for 4 or 5 years now—and I never have to use the command line if I don't want to... which, frankly, I don't mind using, quite the contrary ;)
• Cloud: I tried following the suggest links and gave up on the 3rd one. It's too technical, at least for me. depends what you're looking for but here is a couple of EU/European cloud storage providers I use: Infomaniak (Swiss, works great, more features than just cloud), Filen.io (German, works great, more limited in features but offers full end-to-end encryption).

it's someone that is getting hired to do military activities (more or less openly, more or less legally). It's not a regular soldier (belonging in some nation's army) but like more like a private contractor, hired by some nation, a private corp, a private group or even by wealthy individuals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary

(Going to talk about arabs here, for example.) Since most arabs on reddit complain about how all pro-palestine content is heavily censored and how it’s consistently enshittifying. But i mean this might be diminishing returns, but at the same time i find it insane that there are only 6 (afaik) arabs meanwhile there are whole instances for french/german/chilean/italian/etc

Maybe all what's needed is for someone to start?

I [think] i get along okay with everyone else,

I certainly don't, but I'm old(ish) and grumpy :p

i do miss having other arabs to talk to on lemmy. This isn’t too big of a problem, but would be nice to solve :-)

I would not blame you for trying ;)

What do you think would be the response?

If I was invited to change my habits, my first question would be: why? What could I do I can't already do on reddit? Or for what reasons would I want to do the same thing on that Lemmy-thing? Imho, you should prepare some reasons for them to be willing to change their habits and give Lemmy a try. Without that, you're seriously reducing your chances.

Pessimistic-me would also think focusing on ethnicity/country or anything along those lines would immediately open the door to endless issues and quarrels between users considering one must be living in the country, other saying one should be of such or such origin or whatever else, while others say it should be enough to have been born there, or to to have been living there at one time. But, hey, that's just pessimistic-me.

What communities would we do?

That's up to you, obviously. I wouldn't do any because I don't care much about ethnic/origin/nationality (or gender or faith) and I can't recall any time I felt closer (or further away) to anyone because of such reasons. I care a more about what's brewing between that person's ears and depending what's brewing, I will feel closer or not so close to them ;)

Thx. I will look at the Typora app to see what it is :)

Yep, privacy is a real concern for me too (the lack of digital intimacy will become even more prevalent once our legislators will have managed to force software to have backdoors in their apps so they can hunt the 'naughty terrorists')

I would not dare setting up my own server for, well, anything. I'm too afraid to screw something ;)

It's a question of practice, like it really becomes a habit: I write the first line using the top of the page as guide and then the other lines follow along the previous ones.
Also, I don't worry too much about my lines being perfectly straight, it's part of my journal. Like a sketch not being perfect.

I can understand that. I carry a small notebook for that purpose but the phone is real handy and it's only based on a personal and a partisan decision of mine to not use it as I wanted to focus on my privacy and on low-tech.

May I ask what editor you use? I use Codium (a version of VSCode without without Microsoft spywares) to write my blog in Markdown (and libreOffice for the rest).

I’d love to do analog journaling but my handwriting.

Mine is a real nightmare. It would shame any doctor. And I don't care, it's my journal I'm the only one supposed to be reading it... when I mange to read my handwriting :p