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Disability Insurance & Pre-Existing Conditions

Disability insurance and pre-existing conditions are common talking points among those looking for policies. Although health insurers cannot deny you coverage based on your health, the same protections don’t always apply to disability insurance. As a result, applicants applying for individual disability insurance will need...

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KDE Plasma 6.0 Major Release With Incredible New Features

The Linux desktop environment has long been a bastion of customization, security, and performance. With the release of KDE Plasma 6.0, the KDE community has taken these qualities to a new level. This major release brings a list of new features and improvements that promise to redefine the Linux desktop experience.What’s new In KDE Plasma 6.0The Transition to Qt 6 and WaylandOne of the...

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Rory O’Reilly, Co-Founder and CEO of Knot, on connecting cardholders to merchants

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SOFI TECHNOLOGIES PUBLISHES SECOND ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE REPORT

We closed out 2023 on a high note by debuting SoFi’s first comprehensive ESG report which captured our efforts throughout 2022. Today, we’re proud to...

New Linux ‘Screen of Death’ Options: Black – or a Monochrome Tux Logo

It was analgous to the "Blue Screen of Death" that Windows gives for critical errors, Phoronix wrote. To enable error messages for things...

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Massive Outage Highlights Need for Resilient Operating System

A massive outage affected multiple businesses worldwide due to a routine application update, highlighting the critical need for a new generation of resilient operating systems...

Linus Torvalds Doesn’t Merge sched_ext For The Linux 6.11 Merge Window

While Linus Torvalds stated in mid-June that he intended to merge sched_ext for Linux 6.11 as the exciting extensible scheduler code, it didn't end up...

LHB Linux Digest #24.11: Introducing Docker Course, Rethinking DevOps, Sed Command, YAML and More

Linux Handbook now has two levels of memberships. This is to accommodate people who are not interested in the courses and books we have created...

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Pip install and Python’s externally managed

TL;DR: pip install is on the way out. Installing Python packages must be done via APT, aka. Kali Linux’s package manager. Python packages coming from other sources should be installed in virtual environments.Long story below.Some backgroundBack in February this year, for a few days, some of you might have tried (and failed) to install Python packages with Pip, aka. Python’s package manager. Suddenly it...

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