Effectively no. China could stop selling to the US but it really needs the demand to fuel its growth and they dont really care about US actions around the world since they directly benefit from people souring on the US.

Countries dont so things for moral reasons and its in no countries interest to sanction the US over fucking maduro.

Thats lower than previously. Wasnt it 32% before?

Microsoft executives have never used a copilot or any 365 tools and it shows.

Maybe we do need a better dbus but its not going to be done by vaxry. We could probably use binder the android dbus.

Create is such a cool mod. I wish it was around back in the days when i played nodded Minecraft.

Wtf I’m dropping this linux nonsense now and switching to a co pilot + PC and windows 11. Let me just fork out $150 for the licence and $60 a month for co pilot and another 99 yearly just to use the basic office suite. Open my start menu, wait 15seconds for it to load.

Ah there are ads in my start menu.

Its hard to break into peoples minds with no advertising budget.We can’t tell people on reddit about Lemmy because reddit bans your account.

Lemmy got a ton of traffic after the api black out and it did an incredible Job at retaining a lot of those users. There were 200k active users and Lemmy was much more unstable at the time. Active users did fall off as expected but 50k stayed for 2 years. Thats great in my opinion. If we had another migration wave I reckon the retention would be even higher.

For someone to switch from reddit to Lemmy three things need to happen

1. They need to know it exists

2. They need to dislike reddit or centralised corporate controlled social media on an ideological level.

3. They need something disruptive to happen. Either a ban or a change they dont like.

Oh yeah linux people have been building like crazy these past 10 years.

Sometimes the user experience is so slick its boring. But the great past of.linux is even when the usage is simple I can always tweak it or modify it to my exact liking.

On Mac it either works nicely or I’m fucked.

Not it’d go up the chimney and you’d waste a ton of money.

If you closed thr chimney then it’d smoke so must you’d be forced to leave the house due to lack of oxygen. You would get high but it would not be a good way.

At Christmas the topic of what videos we watch came up and I was shocked to hear over half the people there mention watching AI videos. Its insane, these are decent intelligent people watching shit like that stupid weightlifting cat and bigfoot vlogging. It seemed mostly because they couldn’t get rid of YouTube shorts but still. The family members who used Instagram had it way worse they only consumed reels slop and didnt watch any long form video. It was really are “we are so cooked moment”.

If you want to squeeze every drop of preformance out of your hardware but you dont want to know or learn about what any of the tweaks and you are ok with system instability.

There are versions that ship with the proprietary nvidia driver. The reason people have issues is the distros shipping the open version due to philosophy or distros shipping the open version for compatibility reasons. The open version is worse but at least it works the proprietary version doesnt support a lot of cards.

Thats not actually a problem. Every other OS has that problem.

Mac will never get 100% market share because there will always be people that hate their workflow. Linux can offer a tailored version to everyone’s liking.

SteamOS builds off arch pretty rarely so unless they plan on ddosing for 6 months this doesnt impact steamOS at all.

Its probably someone who got banned from the community trying to make a statement.

You have no idea how light Wayland can be.

My 2014 Chromebook can run sway just fine. Wayland can be lighter than x

What’s MintPass? It wasnt clear how to get a token and Im not entering a ph number.

this won’t be interesting for longtime users

You couldn’t be more wrong. Longtime users love hearing peoples experience switching over. Its been a long time since I was a linux noob but i want to be aware of the problems they may be facing so I can help out or steer them to another way of doing it.

Also sometimes its funny because its just a different variant of the same issues, nvidia drivers, audio, distro randomly breaks in the install phase.

KDE is a awesome desktop. Its really powerful and can be bent to liking with window rules and hotkeys.

Yea people tend to uncritically repeat things they hear.

Dual booting is fine. Microsoft destroying bootloaders is mostly a meme off a few bugs. Any distro that ships an up to date kernel and drivers is good. Fedora/Ubuntu. Bazzite is kinda weird for gamers because it just makes every problem harder to solve. If you never tinker then its fine but Bazzite feels more restrictive than windows without knowing how it works.