They managed to build and launch ICBMs with '50s technology, I’m sure they could still scrape enough together to ruin everybody’s day

Because fuck blind people, that’s why

Windows can’t read your linux partitions, it doesn’t support them, so it’s almost impossible for it to damage your installation. It used to be that it could mess with the bootloader, but since UEFI got implemented, that’ become less likely.
What does it do when you boot into normal mode? Does it get to the login screen or not? Do you see error messages?

If you get to login but no further, it could be a problem with your user, like a bad shell setting, since rescue mode logs you in as root usually (I’m not very familiar with debian/ubuntu based distros), otherwise it could be you installed/updated/removed the wrong package(s), unfortunately as far as I’m aware apt doesn’t have history rollback capabilities, so undoing that is going to be difficult.

This is an unpopular opinion, but when you’re still inexperienced with linux, the quickest way to fix your system is just reinstalling. Back up your whole home dir beforehand and you’ll just have to drop it back in place to get all your data and settings back. If you have more than one user you may want to be careful with the UID, you may have to chown -R the whole directory.

Yeah sure, but if you go to a military base in your country and release a swarm of drones, they’ll likely at least attempt to shoot them down, the base has its own wall of defence.

So my thoughts watching this is that it wasn’t exactly a quick attack. The drones were actually being used as quadcopters, manually controlled instead of seeking a target or coordinates, and they seem to be launched sequentially, likely because they’re piloted locally by a limited pool of operatives.

This means that there was no useful jamming going on, and I wonder if any base personnel even tried to shoot them down.

Explain

Explain how fewer young workers can produce enough in taxes to run the country.

Our knowledge and craftsmanship improves continuously. Fewer people are needed today to produce and administer things than were needed years ago, we just decided to produce more. That is not necessary.

Explain how a dwindling tax base will support the elderly.

What do the elderly need? Essentially medical assistance. That’s what we should focus on improving right now.

Explain how to avoid an economic collapse as fewer and fewer people require fewer and fewer goods and services.

We’ve learned that “the economy” is mostly disconnected from the well-being of the average person. It’s a matter of will and organization, really.

Every time I see PowerShell syntax, I have this dissonance where I feel like it should be better than Unix shells, its command are surely more descriptive, still… It disgusts me for some reason. Too long, maybe?

Eh, the slavery argument may not hold as much traction as we once thought

I think you’re confusing Lemmy’s alignment to freedom and the common good with a circle jerk. Most of us are here because we don’t want to be bound by the limits of centralized, proprietary social networks, how can you be surprised that the people here try to make the same choice in other aspects of their lives?

You’ve just learnt the frailty of institutions, law means nothing if those who are tasked to uphold it forego their duties.
This is why an educated, politically active population is the only real safeguard against institutional decay and tyranny.

Who’s this person who doesn’t know what social to join, but knows them all by the logos?