Switched to Linux around the time Windows 11 was first announced to be a mandatory update, and all the bullshit about security.

I started out with Ubuntu, now I’ve been using Bazzite for over a year.

The programs I use, Gimp, Krita, Blender3D, Audacity, OBS, all have Linux native versions, and are generally part of the FOSS community anyway. Well, except for Audacity right now…

So my artistic work hasn’t been hindered in the least.

Games are a slightly different story. I switched from an nVidia GTX 1060 6GB to an Intel Arc A770. Overall a significant upgrade, but there are issues. Some I had with Blender3D not recognising the card (something that was largely solved by switching distro). Other problems still persist, specifically with Intel Arc, Linux, and UE5.

UE5 is an absolute hateable bitch and some combination of Linux and Intel Arc provides no end of trouble. I still can’t get certain games to run (i.e. Oblivion Remastered).

Intel Arc card. Though, to be fair, it’s only in a small few cases.

You mean pirated Photoshop, right? :D

… You mean pirated Photoshop… Right? :|

Sucks to be you.

I mean… Palantir showed Denethor false images of doom and despair fed by Sauron. It drove him to become a completely mad tyrant.

I think Palantir is a very apt name. They just don’t realise why.

There are plenty of Americans who worship Trump… In a literal sense… And are perfectly fine with ICE indiscriminately shooting people.

Are you trying to make a point?

Sure, but what does this have to do with the riots in Iran?

And my dad just went to visit Iran for two months…

I can ask the Iranian side of my family to explain exactly how full of shit you are. Wouldn’t be for constructive reasons; I doubt you can be taught anything. But it sure would be entertaining.

Haven’t seen that happen yet.

They tend to pool in a certain subset of lemmy instances, and some of the main instances have defederated them, because at one point it got pretty bad.

I’m keeping it around because at some point in the future the Switch 2 will get hacked, and boy am I going to have some sailing to do.

A tankie is a kind of person who likes Imperialism and expansionism so long as it comes from something related to, as the other user said, Marxist-Leninism.

The origin of Marxist-Leninism is Russia, so they support Russia invading things, and committing warcrimes, and make all sorts of excuses for such acts.

Today they’re primarily in support of the Russian side in the Russo-Ukranian war, do not consider it an invasion of a sovereign nation, and consider it fully justified as an act to oppose “NATO expansion”.

Essentially, to a tankie, nothing “goes too far” if they can somehow connect it to a Marxist-Leninist agenda, and behave the same way about Putin as a right-wing American behaves about Trump.

Nearly forgot; the name “tankie” comes from how Russia overwhelmingly uses tanks to invade territories.

“I am bad at managing my finances, and eventually need to get bailed out by the government, or end up next to the homeless guy I used to make fun of”.

• This guy.

You know, I’ve never really gotten into RSS. I remember it being a huge deal a very long time ago, now I only see a niche few talk about it.

I’m still not sure I fully understand what RSS even is.

We got tankies on here, though. Not much better.

RTS, RPG, Space Sims. Whatever Helldivers 2 is, maybe… I only played one game like that.

I got mine for 99 DKK including Mariokart because the shop selling it fucked up their discount. Best value I’ve ever gotten. XD

So are other MOBAs. Doesn’t stop them from being crap.

Hey, do you wanna bet that the people who can’t stop playing this are the same people who are generally stuck to MOBAs?

Hopefully not a fade-to-black this time. :V