I swapped a laptop over maybe 5 years back at this point and bricked it within a week. I tried a total of 2 or 3 times and something always went wrong (this was Arch btw). I converted it to Mint maybe a year later and it was stable but I wasn’t convinced it was stable enough for my main computer.

I’m also pretty sure before that majority of games were not easily compatible like they are today.

Even as we speak Steam is not constantly resetting my keyboard as of some recent patch and I’m positive this wouldn’t happen on windows. Like Linux is great, it’s come a long way, and I would say it’s mature enough for most of friends to pop over without issue - but there are still clearly situations where I’m fighting the OS’s minority status or hodgepodge structure.

I love it, but claiming it was better than windows for the past 20 years is a bit of a bubble. You must not game, because 20 years ago it would have been worse - to name the one niche I care to point out right now.

I mean I can imagine, but I think it’s fair to say there’s been significant gaming progress and user friendliness to happen over the the past <5 years. It was unthinkable to switch over a decade ago and now it’s practically no different than windows. To me that means a different bar for what maturity is i guess.

I swapped over to Arch early this year. Very little issues, rather simple compared to the online stigma. Maybe it’s because I have up to date hardware, idk.

Made a guide for friends, one has swapped over and a couple others have voiced interest. It’s only a matter of time with the windows BS and as Linux continues to mature.

Which is totally valid… And also the entire point of my comment. This video had Linus Torvalds in it, giving a pretty decent interview, while building a Linux PC and this thread was nothing but hate. Literally no appreciation for the positive impact LTT was having in a community that, at least on paper, should be over the moon.

I don’t see much Torvalds stuff on camera, so this was nice. I’m not asking people to like LTT, it’s just the dialogue around them on reddit and Lemmy feels extremely immature and outspoken and in this instance felt detrimental to the space and the supposedly shared hobby.

LTT was a big supporting factor for why I degoogled and switched to Linux when I did. It was partially because of their work I jumped over to self-hosting, open source, or other less “evil corpo” apps.

I’m not really interested in defending the channel or the guy, especially in areas so polluted with hate for the guy, but there’s no way they were paid by Microsoft to slander Linux and tbh I never took their Linux videos as overly critical or completely thorough examinations of the Linux experience. Idk, just feels like over exaggeration on the part of people who have too much fear a bit of non-perfect coverage will hurt their darling product.

God damn the LTT hate is huge in this channel. I don’t really get it, but shit you guys really don’t like a tech review channel.

When I posted this, there wasn’t a single comment about the actual interview with Linus Torvalds. That’s a crazy amount of vitriol.

It says there are 200 comments but I can see 2. So my 2 cents, jump onto the easiest instance you can. For me, that was .world. Get on the boat, then reassess when you have more time.

The first jump, reddit to Lemmy, is the hardest. The second is super easy in comparison.

Running arch Linux KDE on Wayland with a 4090. Not a single issue graphically in the last year.

The rich would pay workers nothing if given the opportunity. Society isn’t for the rich, it’s for everyone. Workers deserve thriving wages, sick pay, and bountiful lives.

Anyone or any system working against those interests should be removed from power or dismantled. Tax billionaires and hundred millionaires out of existence so society for everyone can continue improving with far less resistance.

I already donate but I’ll review my contribution and see if I can throw a few more euros their way.

Thanks for the explanation on truth in terms of mirrors, that helps me understand. I was offering server power but that might not be feasible or meaningful. And based on what you’ve said, it seems like the Disable focused warfare is the best approach.

Is there anything we can do? Like, pardon my lack of knowledge on the subject, but could I host like a mirror and therefore expand the servers… width (would that be the right word)? That way the bots have to hit even more end points?

Ya, I totally get you. I had no idea what it was, got into the tech test 2 based off a YouTube suggestion. Played for a weekend and was immediately hooked. The games got some clear magic. This Server Slam had my friends foaming too, even the ones that weren’t normally into PVP style games and now we’re taking Friday off to play :D

I hope Embark finds a lot of success with Arc Raiders because I could totally see it being a 10 year game if it’s well supported after launch.

Start of this year I transitioned to Arch Linux. Only regret is Battlefield 6 and I don’t really care about that cause Arc Raiders is coming this week lol. Every other game has worked out of the box. Although actually RoboCop didn’t work for me which was surprising but I think that’s a temporary hitch.

I made a sheet for step for step instructions for my friends, hoping some of them convert soon with my help.

Ownership is cool and customizing your stuff transforms it from something impersonal or commercial into something intimate, revealing, and special. I believe the world needs to rubberband a bit back away from factory made, hyper-commercialized, and unrepairable goods to the hand crafted and human creations we all long for in the utopian media we consume.

We need to elect a party that actually wants to improve this country, not just loot it. We should be investing in our infrastructure and our quality of life, and raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy to pay for it.

I’d like to become a German citizen and watch Germany flourish. The CDU and the AfD will continue to worsen the quality of life for the average German while enriching themselves and their friends.

Please, if you have the ability to vote please vote for progress and vote as left as you can. Talk to your neighbors, your family, your friends. We’re in a class war and either the rich win through conservative politics or the people win through taxing the wealthy and holding politicians accountable.

I’m self-hosting my own music as of recently. I’m paying for every song. I don’t have as much music as I did on Spotify, but I’m also A) owning the music B) slowly acquiring more and C) actually paying the artists. For me this is a good step in the right direction.

I’m seeing a lot of comments about music discovery being the reason to not stop paying Spotify. Idk if that’s something I’d agree with. First of all, I personally listen to singles and not albums but I’ve been buying albums simply because that’s easiest for a lot of sites (or cause I’m getting them on vinyl). So swapping over has led me to listening to full albums and thus a bit of discovery. That may not apply to everyone though. Several of those albums or artists have had collabs that have turned me on to other artists, again, maybe the music discovery people think this is child’s play but it’s led to a noticable increase in my collection.

Second, can’t you just use Spotify free version to discover music? That’s what I plan to do if I’m feeling like my current collection is getting stale. But between friends, other web services for discovery, various platforms like YouTube that happen to unveil a song here and there, indie concerts that show off new openers to me, or what have you I feel like my discovery is more than sufficient to grow the list of music I need to pick up faster than I’m burning it down or becoming bored with it.

Also, I don’t understand how discovery can represent a majority of a person’s listening habits. Like isn’t the point of collecting favorites songs and making large playlists to listen to those things. I’ve got playlists with like 48 hours of music on them which cause me to not hear a repeat idk, more than once a month if I’m not seeking them out. That’s partially because I have 3 playlists or so I rotate through but like… Is music discovery so critical and so exclusive to Spotify that it’s worth the subscription. More me it’s not.

Not to yuck anyone’s yum or anything. Just trying to add an alternative perspective to these pro-spotify comments.

This is exciting. The more Linux gets the spotlight the better and I generally love all open source, self hosting, of degoogling vids they do.

I’d like any source saying they only did Linux content because of Emily. They continue to talk about doing the next Linux challenge on the WAN show, they are working on a grapheneOS vod if I’m not mistaken, etc.

I agree most of their OS specific content is specific to Windows and I can entirely understand why but to suggest they’re incapable or unwilling to do Linux content feels ungrounded.

You are either misunderstanding me or misunderstanding the conceptual differences between debt, money, and wealth.

A nation can absolutely be debt free and wealthy - there’s a world where a country owns many things (wealth) and owes no money to anyone (debt free). “Creating money” as you put it is accomplished by the government creating money and then spending money on things. Debt does not have to come into the picture for money (literal currency) to be created and spent. Loans (I think the most common form is bonds for the government but I’m actually not sure) are a way for the government to spend money they don’t have by borrowing it (debt). This is good if you use that money to grow the governments revenue, the nations revenue, or the nations productivity (building schools, funding healthcare, building public transit, etc). It’s sometimes bad when you use it to buy temporary services or fund inefficient projects or when the money leaves the nation entirely (sending money to a corporation based in the US that spends little to no money here, for instance. A military contract for instance fully built in another country gives us an expensive product we may not use and which no money recirculates in our nation).

So no, I am not for zero debt at the government level - I very plainly think government debt is a good thing in reasonable quantities and when that money is spent on the improvement of the nation and its people. I think too much debt becomes a noose around the annual budget and slowly errodes the governments ability to do its job. I also think any debt spent poorly is as foolish as it would be for anyone to spend money poorly - except in this case it’s everyone’s money being wasted and it’s a gateway to corruption and the further enrichment of the wealthy.

So I believe what Merz is doing is bad for the country because they’re spending money we don’t have inefficiently on companies that are not wholly based in Germany and will not produce efficiency or quality of life gains for the German populace. Furthermore, doing this entirely through debt when there is a way to generate sufficient income AND benefit the average German is incompetent at best and evil at worst. We could tax the wealthy such that we could do this stupid deal AND not go into further debt, which is obviously more ideal than this stupid deal and debt. Just like doing a good deal and going into further debt would be better than both of those.

Yes, we should focus on improving the lives of Germans and accumulating wealth in the form of education, public housing, public infrastructure, clinics and Apothekes and energy farms, and strengthening our farming infrastructure, etc. All the things a good government would be doing, instead of selling off bits and pieces of itself while cutting services to their citizens while spending money on foreign contracts for a war the rich want because it means more inefficient spending in companies they have stocks in.