Exactly! You get it.

For all of a week, sure. Then Elon Trump is going to carve out some targeted exceptions to Trump’s blanket tariffs.

About 20 trips to the grocery store and the associated gas prices.

You’re describing the Republican politicians. The Republican voters are a different bag entirely.

Out of the ones I have discussed politics with, their underlying motivations for supporting Trump are emotionally driven but explained through rhetoric aligning with their emotional motivations. It tends to be grouped into one of a few different feelings:

• cost of living/financial security — immigrants’ fault, taxes, foreign nations taking advantage of US generosity
• fear of change/bigotry — immigrants, “DEI”, “wokeness”, border security
• American exceptionalism/egotism — immigrants, 1st ammendment
• distrust of federal government — “DEI”, government corruption, regulatory overreach, socialism = communism
• distrust of industry — vaccines harmful, science bad

Aside from the bigotry and exceptionalism, those emotions aren’t necessarily wrong. Cost of living increases, politicians owned by lobbyists, and profit-driven privatization of essential services are actual problems. The issue with conservatives is that they have scapegoats to blame those problems on instead of acknowledging the underlying causes. All it takes is some loudmouth, ignorant jackass offering an overly-simplified, emotionally-compelling solution to a complex problem, and others will latch on to it, oversimplify and exaggerate it even more, and disseminate it until the rest of them start believing it.

People can be hateful, narcissistic pieces of shit, and it goes without saying that this repugnant rhetoric is spread intentionally. But, it’s also a direct consequence of a public education system failing among a landscape of patriotic propaganda and media controlled by a powerful few who put profit and self-gain above the health of society.

When someone grows up being told America is a flawless nation, that self-reliance is the foundational trait of success, is never educated to think critically of the government and media, and is bombarded by a neverending stream of false information that validates their fears and lulls them into feeling smarter than everyone else, they end up being indoctrinated into the right-wing cult we have today.

They won’t blame foundational American principles (like the economic ideology) for American problems—they were made to believe America is perfect. It must be something external (like immigrants) making their life worse.

They won’t question those they believe have authority over them—the teacher is always right. If Trump says it’s the Democrats fault, it’s the Democrats fault.

They won’t make an effort to understand other views—self-reliance is antithetical to empathy, and they had it ingrained which one was more important. The only person they can trust is themselves and by extension those who agree.

They also won’t need to understand other views. With the breadth of echo chambers available at the tip of their fingers, it’s easy to seek and reinforce conservative views, social connection, and validation. Chuck McFuck has a sole trans daughter who begrudgingly interacts with him, in contrast to his 10,000 friendly and cooperative buddies on r/conservative.

Not the other commenter, but they likely meant stability with respect to device drivers. The kernel is great at not degrading with a high uptime, but there’s consumer stuff that’s just perpetually unimplemented, buggy, or minimally-functional:

• Sensor monitoring on Ryzen platforms
• Realtek NIC chipsets
• Nvidia cards and proprietary drivers for anything and everything other than compute workloads
• Nvidia cards older than the RTX 2000 series and FOSS drivers
• Peripherals targeted towards “gamers”

None of this is the kernel maintainers fault, of course. The underlying issue is the usual one of shitty corporations refusing to publish documentation and/or strategically abusing the legal system to stifle reverse engineering for interoperability.

BMP? vi and control-v!
WAV? There’s probably a plugin for that!

Hellwig was a bit crusty about being overruled by Torvalds, it seems.

I’ll get it back another way.

Aye, matey.

my favorite are 3rd person rpg with exploration as an important element in learning about the lore/story

Not PC exclusive, but if you haven’t played Baldur’s Gate 3 yet, it might be something you would enjoy. It’s literally Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s not going to guide you through every little piece of content. You can miss something on one playthrough and discover it completely by chance on your next one.

Of the special variety?

It’s still the Chromium browser. Same problems, but now at the mercy of two corporations that are looking to turn a profit.

Sadly, yes. That’s why I mentioned the fallback to JPEG.

Valve wins by doing nothing… it’s a tale as old as time.

Steam’s market share is a huge factor in why their competition never succeeds, but it’s hardly the only reason. Steam is a whole platform, not just a launcher or storefront. And they’re also cognizant that the consumers are not just a revenue source to be milked, but actually long-term customers whose loyalty is important.

It really shouldn’t be a surprise that when you enter an established market, you’re not going to accomplish shit by providing a lesser service while simultaneously treating the consumer worse.

I’m one of them. For all their trash talk about Steam being a monopoly, Epic Games sure pulled some hypocritical, anticompetitive shit in their attempt to replace one monopoly with an objectively worse, consumer-hostile one.

Fuck webp, use JPEG XL*. It supports lossless and lossy compression, and it’s compression is on par or better than webp. It also isn’t entirely designed by Google.

* With JPEG fallback. Google, being Google, blocked the addition of JXL decoding in Chrome and Android.

It’s Kaboom. It really only takes two words and a symbol to figure that out: “Kaboom”, an “@”, and the “Reddthat” instance.

Hopefully we get something out of this fucking bullshit

At the current trajectory, it be at best a renewed appreciation for how good things used to be.

Yeah, I never said .world is any good either. Both of them have Ye Old’ Power Tripping Bastards worthy moderation.

My instance had a genuinely stupid policy where trolls were not to be banned but instead countered with facts. To prevent echo chambers, or some stupid shit like that. They also blocked the db0 piracy community from being viewed.

Sometimes, they’ll start a podcast or a YouTube channel. Those ones are the worst.

Gamers complain about cancel culture, but they’re the first to demand changes and threaten to boycott a game for daring to include any “woke” (diverse character) content.

It’s absurdly ironic and hypocritical.