Switched almost exactly one year ago. I have a win 10 dualboot for some things (mainly occasional lol/tft, and osu tournaments because for some reason that stutters under wine on my pc even though it runs perfectly fine on my laptop).

The nicest thing is not constantly being annoyed by my OS. I’m forced to use win 11 at work and my god I hate it. Whenever I boot into win 10 at home I also want to rip my hair out, granted it was a lot better on my previous install where I bothered to debloat it.

I’m not really a fan of how “hidden” program installs (at least through package managers) are, but it’s all in the same place and windows programs have been moving there anyway, putting everything in appdata, and to make it worse it’s often split up and there’s random registry entries. So I’m not really bothered by it.

I also have some minor issues with kde, like it deciding to regularly reorder search results (seriously I search for “disc” and always launch discord, but the top spot rotates between discord and discover, so I misclick whenever it changes). Also ever since plasma 6.5 my clipboard has been semi-broken, “copy to clipboard” buttons in the browser don’t work, and screenshots don’t automatically go into the clipboard either until I click the button for it. If anyone has a fix for either of those things I’d love to hear it.

I also didn’t know i needed a dropdown terminal until I had a dropdown terminal and now I can’t live without it.

That’s not even artistic ability, that’s just basic tool use.

…but yea that still applies

Sadly yup. Not quite everyone the same way, but psychology is still pretty scary. Thankfully the manosphere mostly isn’t anywhere neae what actually works with their bs

It’s just her character design, she’s a genshin character (yoimiya).

Yep, and even for me while I prefer to download the game directly usually, when I need to bother with manually getting it to work, I much prefer steam and its proton integration. It’s nice that most games at least just work by running them in a random proton prefix with protontricks, but shipping them with an install script that just gives you a shortcut and installs any dependencies would be huge (actually a step up from steam). And then if galaxy runs on linux it could use that same process.

You… heavily overestimate a grandma with 0 technical skills.

It can be installed in 20 minutes with a youtube video by a person with 0 technical knowledge that is comfortable using a computer and doesn’t get scared seeing a terminal.

I wonder if this might not be exactly the correct approach to teach them, though. When there’s actually someone to tell them “sorry that AI answer is bullshit”, so they can learn how to use it as a ressource rather than an answer provider. Adults fail at it, but they also don’t have a teacher (and kids aren’t stupid, just inexperienced).

The comic is more what happened with brexit as well. 2 options, so we should have one person from each side represent them in discussions, right? Except this misrepresented the balance of expert opinions which was very heavily skewed towards remain, instead implying it’s about even.

It’s a hard topic to solve, but much like compromise doesn’t mean “just take the middle of the most extreme opinions”, fair news coverage doesn’t mean “present every extreme viewpoint as equally valid when the actual sentiment is clearly biased to one side”. In this case maybe limit it to “the israeli government denied it being a genocide” once or sth.

Is there anything at all surprising about teenagers using what might be their only computer outside of their phone to access porn?

I think it’s relative change and not percentage points, from quick mental math that seems to add up. Very weird choice, maybe trying to inflate the perceived increase in linux users. So it would be a change of a bit more than +1 percentage point for linux.

The statement was “every form of entertainment”. Tbh tho yea i didnt really notice it being rpgmemes so it wasnt super relevant, that statement was surely not just meant for ttrpgs tho.

I fully agree you can’t have a ttrpg without political assumptions

Yeah generally when talking about a thing you draw a circle around the thing, that’s how that works. My glass from ikea isn’t making any political statement or assumption in its design as a finished product (unless you consider presumed size requirement for a beverage container to be political, though inherently nothing about it even states its purpose, so even that is doubtful) the process behind its design, manufacturing, and sale very much is political as fuck though.

There is still no political assumption in the game itself. Of course the moment you consider the means of acquiring it, everything touches on politics, even going to the forest and throwing a random stick, because forests existing is politics, them being accessible is politics, and you being allowed (or not) to throw a random stick is politics. That doesn’t make the concept of “throw stick at target for fun” political.

What’s the political assumption of pong?

I mean I don’t disagree with the sentiment, the moment something has world building or a story or goals that relate to real life non-abstractly, there’s at least a political assumption, potentially an intentional statement. And people just don’t notice when it conforms to their world view. But politics free entertainment can exist, even if being able to engage in that entertainment necessarily requires some sort of engagement with real politic systems.

Though the most memorable games tend to be the ones very intentionally making statements anyway.

People just eat the “nuclear waste isn’t a problem actually ignore that in some places we’re already seeing it wasn’t stored safely aftet all” propaganda from the nuclear lobby right up.

And forget that just because nuclear plants are pretty damn safe when everything is done properly, people are notoriously great at not doing things properly, hence why 2 of the things have melted down so far (though i should say the same applies to hydro, except I only know of 1 disaster instead of 2, and the financial damage is less because water doesnt contaminate the ground for forever. Killed a lot of people though).

I’ll take it over fossil fuels still because co2 is also a huge problem, and having nuclear waste at all is a bigger problem than adding slightly more while we transition to full renewables.

The spacing is just the text being set to have the same length in every line (not sure how that’s called in english, but spacing is adjusted so that the last letter in every line lines up without having to split words). They also missed a space after a comma in one row which doesn’t help with it looking weird.

No idea about the codes.

If god is omnipotent he could just snip his fingers and will satan out of existence.

Something like the great flood is also a horrible evil when, god being omnipotent, he could just snip his fingers and make people not sinners.

If he’s not actually omnipotent, sure, then a lot of things change, though overall I wouldn’t describe old testament god in particular as kind anyway. Also people seem to really insist on the omnipotence.

Eh, while I can’t judge how much flat out direct racism there still is (though, individual rather than systemic in that case) affirmative action has always seemed like a lazy shortcut to me that’s better than nothing but only works because of the correlation that black people in the US tend to be poor (reason: see OP). A black kid born into a wealthy household still gets an easier life than a white kid born into a trailer park. Doing it properly would mean helping those of lower socioeconomic status (which will also mostly help minorities) rather than going purely off correlating factors.

And even when people do buy the exclusives on their store, what reason do they have to buy anything else there?

Just like the free games, it would work as advertising, to initially attract people that then decide their product is worth using. But it will never work for making people use their store for anything else as long as it’s as terrible as it is.

Interesting that it’s that low, the hotels I went to in japan were all above 10k jpy (~600€) for cleaning fee if you smoke in the room. It makes sense though with how persistent smoke smell can be.