Cethin

The issue is that users generally don’t get a say. Even in the fediverse, moderators aren’t chosen democratically. Yeah, you can start your own community and try to build it up, but inertia is not in your favor.

Anyway, my point is that a “no politics” rule is not really reasonable. You can have one, and you can enforce it however you want. It will always just end up causing issues though. For example: look up Nazi degenerate art. It’s just art, right? However, to them it was political, and it was political in a way they didn’t like, so they removed it from society.

No moderator is perfect. Even if you trust them, blurry rules probably aren’t the best. There’s better ways to define the intent than “no politics” that create clear borders of what’s allowed and what isn’t. Blurry rules are usually best for those who want to abuse it.

The issue with a “no politics” rule though is that everything is political. It ends up just being the mods removing what they want to remove and letting what they want to see stay.

Windows really hasn’t been the “it just works” option for a while. It’s just the option that you’ve gotten used to the bullshit to make it work. For example, the install process for every Linux distro I’ve tried is far simpler than the insane install process for Windows.

Like others have said though, you’re using the wrong distros for your hardware, without some manual work. I’d recommend CachyOS or Garuda Dragonized, as they’re made for gaming. They’re both Arch based, but they include everything you need out-of-the-box, so you really don’t need to put any effort into setting things up, only customizing it after.

One key thing with switching though is recognizing that you aren’t on Windows anymore. If you switch expecting it to be Windows then you’ll hate it. You need to go in with the same attitude you hade when you learned Windows (which you probably don’t remember). It’s something new. You have to accept that you have to learn how to use it.

It’s not just that it acts like a radiator. Feet are also not very sensitive, so if they’re a little cold it won’t bother you. You could obviously get rid of a lot more heat by exposing your torso, but it will feel cold much sooner.

As the other comment says, use TLDR. it doesn’t tell you everything, but it does usually explain the most common uses. If you need something more advanced than you need to do more research anyway.

Good UX is the best, whether that’s CLI or GUI. UX is under-appreciated.

Sure, a lot of people use it, because it exists. How many of those people would actually say it’s a requirement to be built into it though? There’s plenty of other options for screen sharing they could use. I don’t know though. Maybe a lot of people actually do consider it a critical feature. I doubt it though. I’ve used it a few times with my group, but it’s only ever a “do you want to see this?” It’s just a bonus, not a requirement.

I would bet on the screen sharing not being that big of a requirement for most people. Voice and text chats though? Yeah, that’s the minimum.

This is literally just the same thing the military uses, but with descriptions changed to LEOs. Still maybe useful, but not as useful. The utility here is the most relevant information comes first, and it keeps things organized. You can start responding before all the information is relayed. It’s important for radio communications in a battlefield setting. If you’re making a post online we’ll after anything is actionable, you can safely ignore this. Just post the information in the most informative way you can.

It’s funny you mention the VC funding. As far as I can tell, it’s only made it worse. Discord would have done great if they just kept expectations low. Instead, they’re now expected to create massive returns. That must come at the cost of consumers. I hope consumers get tired of it and leave, or someone else comes offering the simple service Discord used to provide.

The point is that it skirts the law. You can’t really make it illegal because it is a way of subverting legality. If they legally obtain the evidence then it’s legally obtained. If they happened to get to that point through extra-legal means that doesn’t really matter, as long as the end result is legal. Maybe you could argue in court that they only got there because of extra-legal actions, but they can argue the opposite. If this helps them look in the right spot for illegal actions, who’s to say that them looking there couldn’t have happened purely by chance?

One thing to note is that Linux can read your Windows partitions. If you have data on drives you’ll still need, you can leave them and Linux can access them fine. (Windows can’t read most file systems though, so the other direction of this mostly doesn’t work. Windows can’t read most Linux partitions).

If you’re reasonably technologically competent, I’d recommend CachyOS or Garuda. These are Arch based, so the Arch wiki and Arch User Repository are available, and great resources. They come with everything you need for gaming though, unlike base Arch. You don’t need to fiddle with things or set things up. They just work out-of-the-box.

If you’re not really technologically competent, but want to learn, the Mint recommendations are fine. It’s one of the most used distros, so there’s still plenty of help available. Alternatively, and I think better, there’s Fedora. For either of these, choose KDE versions, not Gnome or anything else. KDE is more customizable and closer to Windows too. (Though it can be customized to be more like anything else, or whatever you want too.)

If you really don’t want to learn, Bazzite or maybe Zorin are there.

2k is nice. 4k is pushing the limit of utility, even if you can get content for it (or play games with that resolution if gaming). 8k is beyond any need for any normal person. Maybe if you have a private movie studio you could use it, but I don’t think that’s what this is discussing.

Oh no, someone who doesn’t understand reality laughed at something I said! I’m so upset!

It’s international politics. Working against a nation doesn’t mean you aren’t working with them against someone else too.

If you read this then you know that it’s both. They’re pretty related.

There are increasingly many guard rails, like a warning when you do “rm -rf .” in many systems, for example. It’s just that they are only guard rails, not walls. You can ignore them.

You are not separate from humanity’s history…

I think it’s pretty narrow minded to say you have to believe in something to still have a connection to it. I know religions played a role in our history (often negative too). I like learning about this. I’m still connected to it. I just know it’s almost all bullshit. I can gain a lot from reading a sci-fi novel too without believing it’s real, for example.

Just use the software the human brain was developed alongside and use your processing power on things more useful…

I hold the opposite opinion. I think wasting out effort to please some supernatural thing is a waste of time and energy. This must be double true if you can’t even decide on which one it is, because they’re all mutually exclusive. I’ll just live my life trying to be a good person. It doesn’t cause me any extra effort to do.

…than trying to feel smarter and more right about the universe, which is mostly just lying to yourself anyway.

Wow, this sounds rude. When was I trying to feel smarter? More right? Sure, and probably true (almost every religion is mutually exclusive, and there’s a huge number of them, and most have been forgotten. The odds of you having the right one is effectively 0). I don’t think I’m smarter though. I just think I’m more honest. I don’t feel a need to lie to myself, or others, that I think there’s anything beyond nature. I’m perfectly comfortable and content with that reality. Death, and everything else in life, doesn’t bother me.

You use it to help you process it sounds like, which is fine. You do you. I don’t need that. For me it’d make things harder, not easier. Don’t assume we all work the same, because we don’t. I feel absolutely zero draw towards spirituality. To use your analogy, we’re running different OSs. I don’t think I’m superior for it like you seem to.