This is about that Twitter website people used to use right? Sorry, out of the loop here.

Ketamine is a hell of a drug yo.

Nope. This just seems patently obvious to any but the dull-witted or anyone whose paycheck depends on denial of some fairly basic facts.

(Edit: the downvotes only prove to me that “Idiocracy” was actually a documentary that fell backwards in time)

Doesn’t the USA have much higher wealth inequality than China’s? If so, is that not the result of corruption? If not, so you consider the visible symptoms of it?

Maybe the problem is our lifestyles. I’m unaware of any long term studies suggesting that in a situation in which the population increases and the resources and land are fixed, that it gets cheaper for anyone wanting anything.

It’s not really an odd question from that particular user, if you consider the context that they have an agenda; FUD and misinformation about EVs.

Agreed. The innumerable problems that coincide with fossil fuel based technology means it’s a terrible idea to continue to subsidize it at taxpayer expense.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CCVPZL78 these have been in my shopping cart for a few months.

Imagine you are a machine. Yes, I know. But imagine you’re a different kind of machine, one built from metal and plastic and designed not by blind, haphazard natural selection but by engineers and astrophysicists with their eyes fixed firmly on specific goals. Imagine that your purpose is not to replicate, or even to survive, but to gather information. I can imagine that easily. It is in fact a much simpler impersonation than the kind I’m usually called on to perform. I coast through the abyss on the colder side of Neptune’s orbit. Most of the time I exist only as an absence, to any observer on the visible spectrum: a moving, asymmetrical silhouette blocking the stars. But occasionally, during my slow endless spin, I glint with dim hints of reflected starlight. If you catch me in those moments you might infer something of my true nature: a segmented creature with foil skin, bristling with joints and dishes and spindly antennae. Here and there a whisper of accumulated frost clings to a joint or seam, some frozen wisp of gas encountered in Jupiter space perhaps. Elsewhere I carry the microscopic corpses of Earthly bacteria who thrived with carefree abandon on the skins of space stations or the benign lunar surface—but who had gone to crystal at only half my present distance from the sun. Now, a breath away from Absolute Zero, they might shatter at a photon’s touch. My heart is warm, at least. A tiny nuclear fire burns in my thorax, leaves me indifferent to the cold outside. It won’t go out for a thousand years, barring some catastrophic accident; for a thousand years, I will listen for faint voices from Mission Control and do everything they tell me to. So far they have told me to study comets. Every instruction I have ever received has been a precise and unambiguous elaboration on that one overriding reason for my existence.

-Peter Watts, Blindsight

You haven’t really highlighted any of the linux advantages here.

I wasn’t really on that side quest, I’m only asserting it’s (apparently) as easy as Windows is. If you don’t see “not having to use windows” as an advantage, or if it’s actually an impediment to your non-game-related computer use, that’s totally fair; subjectivity is absolutely part of this. I’m just glad it all works for me in my life and that I’m lucky enough to be able to get to work on the platform I prefer.

So, literally every game I’ve bought on steam is playable on my Manjaro box.

Additionally, a recent KDE6 upgrade messed up my config and necessitated a full system reinstall. After remounting the partition where my steam games were installed on in the old sys, they…just worked. Even the ones that don’t cloud sync, saved games all there, DLC all there.

I don’t know how long reinstalling ~1TB of games would take on windows… a lot? Pretty sure you have to fully reinstall them, not just “point steam to the drive where they live”

Frankly I just don’t see why people tolerate windows anymore. It’s just laughably bad.

Ok, but if your expectations are permanent nerfed you’re gonna be a much easier mark… Plus tacit acceptance of a shitty status quo is pretty self-defeating.

I guess a lot of us didn’t learn from history, or even go see ‘Oppenheimer’…

It also tells us how hypocritical we all are since absolutely every single one of us would make the same decisions they have if we were in their shoes. This shit was one bajillion percent inevitable; we are in a river and have been since we tilled soil with a plough in the Nile valley millennia ago.

What’s more likely to work is something else will appear and distract the gnat-like attention span of our status-obsessed species, and we can go back to tik tok being the sound your you hear at night when you visit your boomer relatives and try to sleep in the guest bedroom.

Any rolling distro that you enjoy is the way to go here I suppose. I’d also hitch my wagon to and arch variant personally but tumbleweed wasn’t terrible either. Just not my mojo.

Anecdotally; I am running Manjaro, with a valve index, and other than a few need-to-disconnect-and-reconnect my HMD, it’s been solid and painless.

No, I have been using some form of Linux at home and at work since then too. I distro hopped for many years until one of my coworkers showed me Arch. Oldest story in the book right? I eventually ended up on Manjaro after a drive failure and the need to get something arch-based up fast.

To the substance of your point: no question that the internet was rougher around the edges too though in the early aughts right? Does you want an ActiveX or an ObjectEmbed? Let me load my 2000+ line navigator.appName giant if-then config for my site. Or how about when it was all tables and shim.gif and img tags with width and height. Good times.

There were plenty of these problems between browsers on just one OS. Or even versions of IE. I still see the rows of testing machines in my dreams sometimes, each with a slightly different version of XP and IE. 5.1, 5.5, 6. Ugh. Or how about the early days of flexbox when it was 7s turn.

Chrome wasn’t even a thing until 2008 iirc, but that was also post safari-shaking-things-up too. And safari was from WebKit, and WebKit was from who? KHTML baby. (The K is for KDE.)

TLDR you’re right, but I don’t feel like it is, or ever was just Linux based OS’s being targeted so much as bifurcation of standards, or just lack of all the relevant parties (like the W3C and browser makers) sitting down and establishing those standards. It’s also a chicken and egg thing with tech too.

None of that is to say it never happened though, I’m just skeptical it was ever at any meaningful scale.

I’m feeling this. My day today was roont by plasma 6. I still can’t unlock any LUKS usb drives with dolphin.

I’ve been playing with a locally installed instance of big agi really like the UI but it’s missing the RAG part. I’m also cobbling my own together for fun and not profit to try to stay relevant in these hard times. Langchain is some wild stuff.