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with the recent windows news, I wanna switch to Linux. I tried mint a few years ago and was annoyed and frustrated with multiple things, like having to input the password all the time and the general ammunt of constant trouble shooting and needing a tutorial for the most basic things.

I want a distro that:

1. Is very user friendly, ideally not requiring a terminal
2. Is hard to accidentally fuck up
3. ideally doesn't require a password for every input

I basically just use my laptop to browse the web, draw in krita and use ms office apps (have been getting used to open office lately)

What do y'all suggest?

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Dalia Energy recently signed planning, procurement and construction agreements with three Chinese companies, CHEC, HEI and THCC, for the construction of two power plants. The agreements include the construction of the Dalia 2 power plant at the Tzafit site, with a NIS 3.8 billion budget, and the Eshkol Avshel power plant at the Eshkol power plant site, with a NIS 3.3 billion budget.

On government tenders, a process is underway in which investments by Chinese companies are examined by the Foreign Investment Review Committee, which has blocked several investments by Chinese companies in Israel in recent years. However, they have found a back door to enter investments in critical facilities by signing agreements with private companies, such as Dalia.

China Harbor, part of the consortium that won the construction of the two Dalia power plants was previously disqualified from the tender to build a refinery port in Haifa. After Israel Ports Co. took this step "for national security reasons," the Chinese appealed to the courts. Last year, a judge in the Tel Aviv District Court explained that he intended to rule against China Harbor and dismiss the petition that was presented to him. The Chinese company subsequently withdrew the petition to avoid a ruling.

Dalia's ventures are not the first for China Harbor in the energy sector. Complaints were also raised about the company's involvement in the construction work of the Kesem power plant, but at that time the National Security Council found no problems with the project. "The foreign company is not establishing or operating the plant but rather performing contract work for the builder (work estimated to be very small in scope compared with the project)," the National Public Works Department wrote in response to a request from the Rosh Ha’Ayin Municipality.

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There are also strategic infrastructures that have already been built with Chinese assistance. For example, in February 2025, the Kochav Hayarden pumped storage power plant, which was built with an investment of NIS 2 billion, began operations. PowerChina was the contractor and builder of the project. At the same time, there are Chinese companies that hold ownership: PMEC holds 33.3% of the Alon Tavor power plant, alongside Israeli partners Mivtach Shamir and Rapac.

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Not a single word about China

Last week Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Eli Cohen responded to a question submitted by MK Moshe Tur-Paz (Yesh Atid) on China. "The State of Israel is a free market economy that wants there to be competition in all construction of infrastructure facilities. We are of course working with everyone," Cohen said, without the word "China" appearing in his answer.

"Despite this, and I am not referring to any specific country, there is a body in the National Security Council that is responsible for examining foreign investments, and in any instance where there is concern that that entity has interests that could harm the national security of the State of Israel, then we forward the request, and any request for the construction of a power plant, which is an essential, strategic facility, reaches the National Security Council, is examined there, and without specifying cases of companies or projects or countries, there have been cases where projects have been stopped in the past."

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This was a bit sudden, I was planning on doing it next weekend, but I saw snow forcast and didn't want to risk having to use my thrashed summer tires on snow.

This was the last season that I could use those summer tires, the tread was almost used up and there was some dry cracking of the rubber, so I am ordering new Pirelli's for the next season.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/38898700

Source: https://jakubmarian.com/year-and-method-of-last-execution-by-country-in-europe/

'All Her Fault' sets new benchmark for Peacock with No.1 Finish, Apple TV's 'Pluribus' is off to strong start in Luminate rankings.

The Justice Department posted pardons online bearing identical copies of Donald Trump’s signature before quietly correcting them this week after what the agency called a “technical error.”

The replacements came after online commenters seized on striking similarities in the president’s signature across a series of pardons dated Nov. 7, including those granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon.

In fact, the signatures on several pardons initially uploaded to the Justice Department’s website were identical, two forensic document experts confirmed to The Associated Press.

Near lake Saiko.

Saiko Iyashi-no-Sato Nemba Traditional Japanese Village

A while ago I was having fun theorycrafting seeing if there were potential connections relating knot geometry/ formation to wavefunction field excitation as well as better understanding computational complexity classes of knot formation.

During my research I came across an interesting class of fractal ' wild knots ' that recursively cross into eachother infinitely. The wild knot shown in post displays cantor set class bifurcation.

Heres a 3d animation of a knot known as the ' Alexander Horned Sphere '

These knots are pretty cool to look at.

What has been your experience with ButcherBox meat?

For me, personally, I absolutely love the grass-fed beef options (specifically, the ribeyes and strip loin for me, since they're the fattiest of them all), and that's all I've had. There are some other options, including pork, though I don't eat that for cannon law reasons.

I was just curious otherwise.

Stolen & modified. Just some early morning Gimp excercise.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/38855479

I'll start: while looking at app theming I came across WallRizz, renamed from WallWiz. I haven't tried it, and looking at it documentation it seems well made, but I cringe at the name and the AI-generated penguin logo. It shares the art style of all the other AI slop, its basically italian brainrot but 2D. WallWiz sounds way better, rizz sounds like it was specially designed for gen alpha (little kids). If there are apps of even similar quality, why would I use this one?

For eight months, my family and I have been living the same suffering… We’ve lost almost everything, and even the tent we sleep in isn’t ours. We share it with another family, each one of us carrying our own worries and exhaustion. Imagine… eight months without a place to rest, without privacy, without even the simplest basics of life.

I look at my little siblings in the picture… and I feel helpless. Every day I promise them that I’ll get us our own tent and a small bathroom to preserve our dignity — but the situation is stronger than me.

I’m reaching out to every compassionate heart… Please help me provide my family with the most basic right: a tent to shelter us and a bathroom to use with dignity. Your support — even the smallest amount — can truly change our lives. 🙏🏽💔

Donation link:

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