Oh so it’s an activist group that’s doing valuable work but has no need to background check for security. Makes sense, basically every activist or political group is on signal these days.

It becomes one every anti left scare (red, but also green and lavender)

I call bs, he’s mid at best at throating

I love the eyebleed aesthetic of it I’m just now skilled enough to get that on something like fedora or Debian. And these days what I want is for more things to work easier which puts me out of the arch sphere. If garuda hadn’t committed hard to the aur I’d probably love it but the aur does everything 3 ways 1 of which may still be maintained and it leaves you just wanting the actively maintained flatpak.

Like I don’t hate it, it was the right distro at the time for me as it was noob friendly and had plasma 6 when few others did. But I don’t need the bleeding edge anymore.

As someone who tried it for a few months then switched back for several years before returning permanently two years ago: Linux has long had the problem that it’s completely ready for different people at different times.

In 2017 it was in pretty good shape if you weren’t a gamer, didn’t mind tinkering a fair bit, were prepared to learn a completely different two ways of installing software, and didn’t rely on proprietary apps (I couldn’t get Netflix to work). I was only ready for the tinkering. Also I’d used Ubuntu and gnome just added more changes.

Five years later a lot had changed. I wasn’t using Netflix (especially not in the app) for one. But Proton had come around and made gaming just work. My wifi drivers just worked unlike before. Years of mobile app stores and a few months of lemmy had prepared me for repos, even though it still took some getting the hang of to switch from just downloading and double clicking an exe file. But also the software options are increasingly available rather than having to learn to use old school wine while in the middle of a massive change. I still think I should switch away from garuda at some point as I dislike some of the choices it made (no flatpak support for one), but I love aspects of it. And all throughout that time that Linux was getting more accessible to someone like me who isn’t a coder, but was tech nerd curious, windows was increasingly getting in my way and becoming anti user.

I think adoption will continue to increase as Linux continues to get easier for more people

Oh that one’s because he goes nuclear when they do. He funded the killing of Gawker because they outed him.

Does Thiel not have more money?

It’s Activision-Blizzard. It’s the same megacorporation

I really like More Perfect Union on YouTube. It’s definitely more journalism than news, so you get investigations into what’s going on.

Building up a good emergency savings fund. When things break I don’t even have to think about if I can afford to fix or replace them. I may have to make decisions on how nice of a version I can have, but I never have to worry I won’t have a car or may have to take a quick loan. Financial worries have become “how long can I be unemployed without issue” or “can I upgrade this thing” or “what’s our budget for a car/apartment/house”.

Alternatively 8 months of 5 weeks of 9 days with 5 days spread between them. 3 days off each week. Each month begins on a solstice, equinox, or halfway between them.

We can go as crazy as we’d like

If the private sector can’t do this then we must demand the public sector do it. I’m sick and tired of money ghouls deciding that things improving is financially unacceptable

Ooh I’ll have to check it out

Yepppp

Yeah that may be a sign of trauma. It’s a symptom I have

Oh cool, computer parts are about to get cheap

Spam them regardless. You want them to stay where they are and to argue firmly. Especially coming from Germany when talking about the evil of the surveillance state.

Yeah streaming has an assumption of an exclusivity deal whereas in gaming it’s unpopular and financially not worthwhile (though subscriptions would rapidly change that).

If Netflix and HBO and everyone else all were equally able to buy content and no service was the primary sponsor of content you’d get services competing on price, quality, and selection rather than each of them aiming to always have something worth the subscription price coming out.

Mostly that gridiron football is a public health crisis and should be treated as such

It’s Adderall, a lot of pharmacies can’t get any doses if op is in America. The DEA has restrictions on schedule 2 drugs like most adhd meds that have caused constant shortages for years