“He’s just a dog, Carl.”

Vibes of when some nature show was picking the best season and they spent half an hour talking about summer, fall, winter, and spring, and then in the end they picked monsoon season, which had not been mentioned even once the entire episode.

It would also help if they didn’t spend every single interview rubbing their hands together with evil glee while they talk about all the anti-consumer features they want to implement and think Steam is crazy for NOT implementing.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Tonight… You.

I’m gonna say that still counts as “cheap assets”

But… those ARE the only two use cases.

I hardly know them!

They rushed. If you push it too fast it’ll blow up in your face.

Amateurs.

2026:

1984 forced all of that.

Brave New World, people LOVE it and can’t imagine any other way to live.

Brave New World is the nightmare dystopia we CHOOSE, not the one that gets forced on us.

We are MUCH MUCH closer to the BNW/Fahrenheit 451 dystopias than 1984.

To connect to the web

I hate to say it, but there’s no fast answer to that question.

The best answer seems to be what most smart countries are doing right now… slowly unwinding their dependency on the US and finding alternative suppliers for everything critical they need so they can get the leverage they need to criticize and resist. This has the added benefit of isolating the US economically, reducing its currency’s ability to influence things.

Over time the US will grow less and less able to throw its weight around, and eventually a tipping point will be reached where picking an ideological fight with the US won’t have a major impact. That’s when the US will be stopped.

Yeah. Owning the thing you pay for is a premium feature.

Choose one at random from those with easy installation. Use it for a week. If you like it, stick with it. If it’s frustrating as heck, try another distro. Your skills picked up from the first one will very likely transfer over. As you narrow down your experience with what’s frustrating you, you can pinpoint what things you like and which you don’t and settle on the perfect distro for you.

There is absolutely NO way to know that before you get your hands dirty and see what these options are and their quirks.

Ditto. Also a gamer on Linux Mint and never once had a problem.

This is one of the reasons I really like the lore dive in the Knights of the Old Republic game.

You get down into the deep Sith philosophy, and yes, Sith evil, but there actually IS a deep ideology behind it where you can understand what they’re going for besides cartoonish evil for evil’s sake. An unrelatable and vile ideology, but an ideology nonetheless.