Secondly, he took this imagery he had created and then "turned to AI chatbots to ensure these minor victims would be depicted as if they had engaged in the type of sexual contact he wanted to see." In other words, he created fake AI CSAM—but using imagery of real kids.
Nope. The only time I entered personal information (my full name) was when purchasing bitcoin. I made the purchase through Ramp- one of the brokers you can buy from
I’m in the EU. So far, it’s been really easy to follow everything. I made a €20 purchase (you get redirected to a third party, with two available to choose from) without any issues.
Pop!_OS still gets security updates, even with their being more focus on the Cosmic Desktop. If it worked for you in the beginning, I’d stick with it — I used it as my first distro as well.
I’ve done an Arch install the “manual” way a handful of times (mainly to say that I did it), but whenever I do an install now, it’s with the script. It’s probably the fastest I have ever installed a workable OS, ever! It works really well at getting what you need without too much fluff.
Torrenting through Tor sounds like a recipe for disaster.