Don't "upgrade" to Kubuntu. I'm on it and want to upgrade away because Ubuntu. Fedora Kinoite is probably the best bet if you want KDE for a tech novice.
KDE is really annoying though. Kate is a horrible text editor if you're not a programmer, and Kwrite has weird default shortcuts without any preconfigured "Gnome/Windows style" available. The Dolphin File Explorer doesn't allow you to sort and group by different things. And Kparted isn't as easy to use as Gnome Disk Utility. Still, I like how KDE had better themes than Cinnamon and how it actually lets me move programs to different categories in the start menu.
Clicking on things that look legit is a critical part of interaction with computers. Programs should not be installed unintentionally, so first and foremost Office Macros should not be enabled by default (and eventually Microsoft did disable them).
Recently I think the main avenue for malware is to send a PDF with a fake popup for an update, that links to a phishing site and prompts you to download an exe with malware. That kind of thing is a harder issue to solve, but at the very least an OS should probably not let that program update your BIOS.
He said that Republicans were more responsive on privacy than the Democrats, there's nothing weird about that. Though it is pretty clear that the Republicans were responsive for all the wrong reasons.
I use KDE and it keeps asking me for a password to mount one of my partitions. I tried to edit it using nano but couldn't find any documentation about how etc/fstab even works so I was hoping for a way to do it with the CLI.
Better a false positive than false negative, as long as people aren't submitting AI generated bug bounty reports to projects and hiding the fact they're AI.
GitHub Advanced Security seems useful. AI has successfully found security vulnerabilities that would've otherwise gone undetected, and as a rule of thumb all security vulnerabilities need to be found and patched.
I'd write a list of future events and share it everywhere I can, editorializing of course to make sure them coming to volition validates my political views, and then use the eventual fame to shape the world in my image.
Ignoring that path, and with no political sway of my own ...
I've got nothing. I'd be like 5 years old and Australian. And overall Australia's doing pretty fine. If there's one issue I'd focus on it's digital privacy and my biggest adversary there would be Google. IDK, there's not really one domino I can affect to change things. Maybe warn about 9/11 and the subprime mortgage crisis but I'm pretty sure other people already did both of those to no avail. Plus I'd be 2 or so years old at the time of 9/11 so that'd probably not go well.
I, as an Australian, have been saying all along that the social media ban should focus on the addictive and problematic features of social media, rather than a blanket ban. Hell there was a good quote I saw recently on Bluesky by Lance MacDonald:
"People saying "kids will find a way around this" have no idea what "this" is. When it comes to YouTube, there's nothing for them to find a way around. The government is forcing all kids to have raw unfiltered access to YouTube. The only thing they're removing is parental controls."
The EU is at least acknowledging the harmful elements. Here's hoping they go "ban on the harmful features of social media without age verification". Then again if the Google Play Store can serve as a middleman on that front then Google will get their wish of being an internet gatekeeper and these features will be enabled by default even for adults (which it shouldn't be).
Don't "upgrade" to Kubuntu. I'm on it and want to upgrade away because Ubuntu. Fedora Kinoite is probably the best bet if you want KDE for a tech novice.
KDE is really annoying though. Kate is a horrible text editor if you're not a programmer, and Kwrite has weird default shortcuts without any preconfigured "Gnome/Windows style" available. The Dolphin File Explorer doesn't allow you to sort and group by different things. And Kparted isn't as easy to use as Gnome Disk Utility. Still, I like how KDE had better themes than Cinnamon and how it actually lets me move programs to different categories in the start menu.