Rookie mistake, invite him to hang out, he can be the designated driver.
There are definitely at least 9 circles of emacs filled with tormented souls.
The success of this may be very dependent on local employment regulations, but most employment lawyers will consult for free and many will take cases on contingency.
Also, keep in mind that ending your relationship with your current employer may force you to move to find a new job.
Have you tried not being poor?
Oh, yes in that case I agree with you, people should be getting more active.
The best thing everyone could do is get more involved with their local politics. Far too many town councils are filled with the kind of people who run the HOAs you hear horror stories about. Their voices and choices need more competition.
er, what exactly do you mean by "from the scratch"? and what exactly constitutes "my own system"? are you planning on designing your own logic circuits, manufacturing your own chips, and then writing your own firmware to run them?
If you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have anything to hide!
You mean you want cheese, cheese, cheese, Spam and cheese without the Spam?
What could possibly go wrong?
This is why the people hoping on winning midterms are misguided.
If your message is "don't bother voting", please see yourself out. We no longer have time or patience for that kind of pro-authoritarian propaganda.
OK, so you want to install Linux on an old laptop after wiping the hard drive.
Sure, you would have root control for that OS. Make sure that there is no BIOS/UEFI password set before you start, or that you have the password.
Do not use the root account for regular use, especially if you will be connecting this laptop to the Internet. Log in as a normal user account and escalate your privilege as needed.
I also highly recommend gparted for editing the hard drive partitions before you install the OS. Don't install gparted, just run it live from a USB drive.
Do you know which Linux distribution you want to install?