“Accidentally”

Coming from the indie dev scene a while back, as an indie dev, you are typically burning every single hour in your day making a game, begging for money to get the game to market, pitching your game to publishers, or screaming into the void that is social media in hopes anyone will click your link. You simply do not have time or effort to spare. It’s a hugely saturated market and the currency is public attention.

So, you tend to cast the widest net possible in hopes you get some kind of traction, which means marketing to Windows users. I’m sure plenty of devs would vastly prefer to be on and build for Linux, but the fact of the matter is the marketshare is smaller and Proton exists.

Oh… You know the views.

I’ve been in that situation, too. :3

I hate that if this was Copilot’s response, I would be more likely to use it.

It fits the type of women I date as well, so you’re not wrong.

I was seeing Matthew Perry on the left there.

People walk around smashing themselves in the dick with a hammer, complain about the dick-smashing hammer, and lament the future dick-smashing hammer update, and the moment someone says, “Hey, have you tried these non-dick-smashing, hammer-free pants?” And they say, “Hahaha, do you also do CrossFit?”

This joke is stolen valor, I only just swapped to Linux like two days ago and I haven’t had the opportunity to blurt it out to people yet.

Yo, so first of all, congrats on being able to ditch Windows! Second of all, I got hype-convinced to make the switch a few days ago and I have LOVED it. Moving from Windows to Mint (at least so far) was a breeze. There’s a tiny bit more thought overhead that goes into fixing things sometimes, but if I’m really honest about that, I had a lot of that with Windows, too, I just have decades of fixing Windows experience.

Left is my girl when I wake her up from her nap in my lap because I’m a horrible bitch who doesn’t love her (I was literally about to piss myself)

Right is my girl when I reach behind the bed to pull up the charging cable behind the mattress (she’s about to give me wounds requiring stitches)

I’m not gonna comment on the game characters, because I have no idea what their relationship is, but to your point, people willingly stay with abusers all the time. That’s part of what makes it toxic.

Gundam has a ton of flavours of Mecha anime depending on what you’re looking for, but my recommendation is ALWAYS 08th MS Team. It follows a single unit in a war and that focus on not being about giga-protagonists feels SO refreshing. You’re just watching a unit of grunts struggle to survive. Cogs in a machine so vast, that they can’t be heroes, just survivors. It also has some SUPER cool fight moments.

Those are some good cats ya got there

There was an interview I saw recently with Asmodei where he said that Anthropic aren’t categorically against autonomous weapons, only that they didn’t think they were ready, seemingly implying they would make mistakes similar to how LLMs hallucinate. A lot of the media coverage around them seemed to imply that they had a higher ethical standard than the others, and I mean… maybe? I guess it could be argued that wanting to minimize collateral damage is more ethical, but regardless, I think it’s important to keep perspective when we see how they act in the coming weeks and months.

The Algorithm™

Not joking, there is a not insignificant portion of the population spurred to click videos based on thumbnails like these.

I just asked the same thing that the OP did. Oops, I guess my exact verbiage DID deviate a bit. I used the numeral for 6 and specified in the US. Other than this, I don’t have any other settings or changes to have it respond to me in a specific way. Like I said, I don’t use it often.

I don’t live in the US, though, so maybe that is a factor as well?

I don’t often use Gemini, but I was curious about this because I got a very different response.

"According to the findings of the House Select Committee, numerous federal court rulings, and the Department of Justice, the events of January 6, 2021, were the culmination of a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The consensus from these official investigations characterizes the day not just as a riot, but as a deliberate attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Here is a breakdown of the evidence and conclusions:

Official Findings and Goals The Primary Objective: The House Select Committee concluded that the central goal of the attack was to prevent a joint session of Congress from certifying the Electoral College votes, thereby keeping Donald Trump in power despite his electoral loss.

Premeditation: Evidence showed that extremist groups, such as the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, planned for violence weeks in advance. Several leaders of these groups were later convicted of seditious conspiracy—a charge specifically involving a plot to oppose the authority of the U.S. government by force.

The “Big Lie”: Investigations found that the attack was fueled by sustained, false claims of widespread voter fraud. The committee argued these claims were used to pressure Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress to unilaterally reject legitimate vote counts.

Legal and Historical Classifications While the terms used to describe the day often vary by political perspective, several specific legal and academic labels have been applied based on the evidence: Insurrection: The House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” and multiple federal judges have referred to the events as such in sentencing rioters.

Attempted Coup: Many historians and political scientists classify it as an “attempted self-coup” (or autogolpe), where a leader already in power attempts to stay in office through illegal means.

Domestic Terrorism: The FBI has classified the breach of the Capitol as an act of domestic terrorism due to the use of violence to achieve political or social objectives.

Alternative Viewpoints While the official investigative consensus is clear, a segment of the public and some political figures characterize the day differently. Some argue it was a “peaceful protest that got out of hand” or a “spontaneous riot” rather than an organized attempt to overthrow the government. However, these claims are generally contradicted by the sworn testimony of participants, internal communications recovered by the FBI, and the specific targeting of the certification process itself.
Would you like me to look into the specific legal charges brought against the organizers, or perhaps the security failures that occurred that day?"

I wonder if the differences in response are due to previous conversations we’ve had? Maybe Gemini is tailoring its responses to what it expects either of us want to hear?

I actually just spent the better part of this afternoon doing just that! I messed around with Mint and it basically ran perfectly fine. Literally no issues at all (besides some of me not understanding how things worked). All my critical stuff works perfectly well, with the sole exception being a game I run where mods are pretty heavily windows-based. I did find a decent Linux community around that, though, and they seem to be running things pretty well, too.

I know I shouldn’t dual boot with a partition, but that’s what I’m gonna do to see if I can make it a couple weeks without anything major going wrong. I tried the live boot disk, but at the moment all I have is an external HDD and it makes some things insanely slow, so partitioning is the move for now. I’ll drop Windows in a couple weeks, though.

Edit: I’ll probably also try out some other distros once I’ve got Mint set up as well, just to be sure I’m not missing out on something else that will work. For now, I just want easy to use and easy to learn.

I appreciate the advice! All my looking around so far has me thinking Mint or Bazzite, but I think Mint will end up being what I go with so I actually learn how to troubleshoot in case I need to move to something else in the future.

I’ll look for a free drive and try and test this afternoon!

I unfortunately don’t have the money for a second SSD at the moment. I considered partitioning my drive, but I only have 500GB and it feels like that would be a pretty big issue if I don’t figure things out quickly enough.