Sadly, that’s the distro I had when I did my dual boot last summer. My Lenovo just isn’t compatible with it.

Issues are not worth my free time.

Exactly. I will say though that I learned a lot, so it’ll be easier when I go back. I do plan to give Ubuntu a try as I’ve read it plays nicer with Nvidia.

My plan is to have a gaming-dedicated system for Windows and a non-gaming system for literally everything else on Linux.

I assume it’s projection, because we can plainly see that most of them aren’t animal lovers.

It’s stupid, agreed.

But it’s not like any major changes are made because of the data we collect on the oceans or the weather, so it feels irrelevant. We still dump tons of garbage in the ocean every day, are still grossly overfishing, and it’s a ‘historic’ hurricane season every year.

Also, I too love Linux, but when I ran a dual-boot for six weeks last summer I had to troubleshoot it almost every single day. Because of that I ended up just going back to Windows and making sure I keep it clean with O&O ShutUp. Some systems just aren’t compatible with Linux and mine is one of them.

Even when it was working, only approximately half of my games ran on it, so I needed Windows anyway. (Though that may be on me for choosing Mint instead of a more gaming-centric distro.)

I’m going to go back to Linux when get a new system and can have a gaming-dedicated PC, but for now, I’m stuck with Windows.

Definitely.

Also, don’t invest in companies that hand total control to one person. That’s a recipe for having that one idiot blow all of your money, like Adam Neumann did. (Fun fact: Toward the end of WeWork’s heyday, Neumann was burning $3k in cash a minute.)

It’s WeWork and Adam Neumann all over again.

You couldn’t pay me to invest in this shit and it feels a little insane that seemingly intelligent VC’s are doing so.

Here’s a story for those of you who, like me, are generally all doom-and-gloom.

And, instead of using the power we gave them to strengthen election laws in 2021 and 2022, Democrats did little other than getting us further involved in wars we shouldn’t be involved in in the first place.

It is genuinely frustrating being an American.

With respect to New Yorkers, looking in from the outside, it feels like they just vote for the person who promises to be the biggest asshole to homeless people and don’t seem to care about much else.

And this is where it gets you.

Love the idea. I don’t have much myself when it comes to donation money, so I just randomly picked an artist I’m friends with on social media and I send them $20-$40 a month as I’m able to. Can’t help everyone, but I can 100% help that one person I know needs it.

And I “lent” (meaning basically gave) my parents my car.

This reminds me of when Obama ordered a drone to assassinate a couple of American citizens in Iraq. One was a mouthpiece for Al Qaeda and another was his teenaged son, so at the time the outcry wasn’t what it should have been, unfortunately.

“Must” doesn’t figure into it. The outcome here is, sadly, predetermined and none of us have any power to change it.

Sadly, Israel’s getting their bombs from the US no matter what happens in November. It would take 51% of this country voting Green to put a stop to this.

It’s exactly the kind of problem that citizens United caused that we need to revert

I agree, but I think we both know Citizens United is never being repealed. It would take a violent, nationwide revolution to change the moneyed machinations of our political machine, especially now that SCOTUS put the stamp of approval on candidates loaning their campaigns money at interest.

Also, history textbooks are massively dishonest to you, and it’s a good rule of thumb to read history independent of what you’re taught in schools. There were so many things deliberately withheld from me in my high school education, like the Tulsa Massacre, the Battle of Blair Mountain, Haymarket Square, etc. etc. etc.

They didn’t even teach you that Columbus was plotting to destroy and rob the native people after their first meeting, and wrote about it in his diary. We’re very fortunate that Bartolome De Las Casas made a copy of Columbus’ diary or we may never have known.

It feels important to note that Harris and Trump don’t need your money.

If a candidate can sell $27,000,000 worth of favors off a single event in New York City, then remember that your friends, neighbors, and community are struggling and their mutual aid requests can use your $5-$10 donation much, much more than the POTUS candidates, both of whom have billionaires in their corner.

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You’re right.

Both Trump and Bill Clinton are connected to Jeffrey Epstein and the vast majority of the country love them both. There’s just something about that level of wealth that unleashes the worst aspects of a human being.

I kinda just assume that all celebrities are secret bastards, personally.

Happened a few times under Trump, like when the US redeployed from Syria, doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, that is.