It's the wrong old English letter. Thorn is used for the th in thorn. The th in the and this is Eth. I might be a pedant, but I'm a pedant with standards.
No. Absolutely go with Mint. It's sensible, stable, and familiar. Ubuntu has its weirdnesses. Mint has gone through LTS changes before. It was fine. More than fine. It's one of the friendliest distributions around, and one I feel no reservations recommending to someone switching from Windoze.
When the code your have to deal with is an ASP (not .NET) created by apes throwing shit in a wall, the kind of holistic bullshit an AI makes is an improvement.
Single function text prediction, class boilerplate, some refactoring.
It's decent when you inherit outrageously bad legacy code and you want better comments and variable names than "A, x, i", etc.
You do have to do it within an editor that highlights all changes so you can carefully review, though.
Not so much a productivity boost, but rather a bad intern you can delegate boring, easy tasks to. I'd rather review that kind of code than write it, but of you're the other way around, it's a punishment.
the system “functioned as intended,” [...]
Baltimore County Public Schools echoed the company’s statement
"We want a system that sends armed cops primed to kill a black student", says the community elected school board. "We believe that's what our racist constituents want", they continued.
Good one! 😆