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Mine Linuxes it herself and has strong distro preferences.

They will pay for enterprise licenses and be able to disable and delete it.

Only us plebs get whipped.

Well of course hardware of arbitrary performance can do more than hardware of specific performance.

The real news here is that Rockstar actually gives a damn and makes a setting that takes advantage of the platform’s superior capabilities.

Why is that car so comically big? Shouldn’t your shoulders be in line with the roof, not the hood?

In Europe, it’s exactly because they want witnesses, cops’ words don’t carry more weight than yours by default, so if they ticket you, they want at least two testimonies on their side.

They are not even compliance a lot of the times.

They are the equivalent of begging on the street, some of them aggressive enough that it’s illegal.

“AI” or GPT is not the problem, the companies behind it are the problem. It would be a great thing if they weren’t restarting nuclear reactors to power it, or they would sell it as a product instead of forcing it on you.

Funny how people like it when they actually provide value to you instead of only forcing an ad delivery/data collection tool on you, right?

they can’t make good design choices because they have to work within the limitations of an over-fitted engine

Maybe that’s why Starfield has become a 50% game, 50% loading screen.

Some actual conspiracies being true, the world burning and governments doing shit like dragnet surveillance doesn’t help either.

We need to restore trust in governments, but for that, we need to get governments we can trust.

No, after trying to contact them for multiple days because they only left me the name of the neighbour I had it with - I don’t know all 2000 of them by name - they were so gracious to give me a house number. This was a 2000 EUR laptop btw.

They also routinely pretend I’m not at home so they don’t have to come up with the elevators, and I get to go on an adventure to get it from a delivery point in the city. Which is its own lovely thing, since the one nearest is a tobacco shop, and the employee there routinely pretends that the “machine is broken, come back in the afternoon” so they don’t have to deal with finding my package among the others, and can dump it on the afternoon shift.

This is DHL in the NL btw.

Don’t worry, it’s shit in places in the EU as well. One delivery guy just left my whole apartment complex’s packages, for thousands of households, in front of one apartment.

To be fair to Romania, the symbol on their flag at the time was also toxic waste, so it’s good they got rid of it and nobody is reusing it.

That said, it’s getting so much better every year. It’s already ahead of Windows in user-friendlyness IMO, but every year I’m amazed by how much cooler it gets.

The only thing I can say is that on Linux, you get excited by the thought of updating your system. It’s like a Christmas feeling instead of a Monday one.

I switched to a Framework 13 after having a system76 Darter Pro, and it’s a whole other league. Incredibly well-built, feels great, runs great, flashy as hell, even the fingerprint reader works out of the box with Fedora KDE.

I’m sudoing in the terminal with my fingers! It’s magic! And it just works!

Also, I managed to drop it in the most stupid way so it bent the whole case, and I could get it fixed for 200 EUR, one day shipping and 20 minutes of work by myself, and that was a full casing swap, so bottom assembly plus keyboard assembly, whole case but the mobo and the stuff on it.

This is what having a laptop should work like. That’s what they took from you.

turbocharged

I wonder where the exhaust fumes come from for the turbocharger. How many cylinders do you think the engine of an average Copilot+ PC have? How much extra torque can they get out of it?

Fuck idiotic marketing, words have meaning.

the Steam Deck production OS is built on Arch.

The problem with Arch is that it’s too minimal for someone who comes with an expectation that everything “just works”.

It’s installer is as easy to use as the other shit you recommended if you can fucking read and follow directions, but skips the unnecessary installer UIs that hand-hold (which requires just as much reading and direction following, difference is the others have a toddler-appealing colorful UI).

Most people who use computers today started using GUI software as their first contact with computer tech in general. Hand-holding is customer service, some people need to be guided through the process, and having something that looks like it should work even if you don’t know what you’re doing helps.

If old MAGA Boomers can handle text terminal DOS installs with floppy disks, a contepmorary dumbfuck Windows user will be fine too.

On the one hand, take 10 randos who have never seen anything but Windows, and give half an Arch installer, the other half eg. Fedora. Take a guess which half will fare better.

On the other hand, Linux and OSS in general is about choice. Not just your choice, but the choice of “dumbfuck Windows users” as well. If you like Arch, go for it, but most people find it hard to cope with after coming over from commercial interfaces. You do Arch, they do Linux Mint if they feel like it.

If it’s an explorer.exe dependency, it’s not an optional feature.

The reason why it might be fucked up is that while the KoL guys might design such a system to create game design that is fulfilling to all these groups, the MBA in charge of the development of an AAA game is going to be “how do we best monetize all these motivations”, as in “how do we exploit all these disparate personalities to make this game as fucked up addictive as possible for everyone”.

Your thing and Leon’s dream has one major difference. Thanks to those open protocols, multiple companies could build everything apps and compete on service, with all of them being able to access all you need.

Leon does not want Twitter to be an everything app, he wants it to be the everything app that you can’t escape, owns all your data, and you can’t get on with doing basic shit without paying him money.

He basically wants to monopolize everything, because he’s bad at competition, because he’s bad at it.