I don’t disagree in principle, but from what I’ve heard the full screen “buy a new computer” pop-ups are pretty bloody annoying!

I don’t know, I think you’re clearly underestimating how many people would install Valve’s OS. The number of people with a Steam Deck that don’t know that what it’s running is a Linux distro is pretty high. The other piece to this is that it’s not just a forced Windows update for a huge chunk of users, it’s a forced device upgrade. Valve offering a free upgrade that negates the need to buy new hardware would absolutely capture people’s attention.

My guess is that even if she did, those friends wouldn’t want their intimate relationships sold for capital.

If you’re a member of the call, you’d want to be in a single-party consent jurisdiction.

Is it really about tax breaks, when the US doesn’t have a wealth tax? Would it prevent his children from dealing with inheritance tax?

If you wanna hard link a directory btw, use cp -lR <src-dir> <dest-dir> to do it. You can’t actually hard link the directory itself, only its contents, so this command will create the directory structure and hard link the files within them.

I think it’s still against the etiquette of torrenting as well. If you only download a few episodes from a season pack then partial seeding is fine, but leaving a game unplayable if you’re the only seed is wrong in my opinion.

That said, in terms of solutions OP, if you’re conscious of disk space:

1. You could hard link the files that don’t change to a new folder, then copy the ones that do change. Don’t need to change filesystems like the other person’s solution. Soft link will also work but then when you wanna delete the torrent files you’ll have to go manually copy the rest over to your install folder.
2. You could always try “force recheck” in the torrent application once you finish playing. It’s likely that whatever changes are happening to those files only occurs while the game is open, potentially even just locking them to read-only, and the torrent application won’t really recheck them once that happens without manual intervention.

Edit: tagging so you see this OP: @[email protected]

I hope Tara Burnett gets elected in Cooper, the first trans MP would be such a big win!

I’m going to have to agree with the “politically immature” comment. There are more than two parties, and we’re not even close to USA politics. That’s part of why Dutton’s polling has dropped so much, because he tried the MAGA 2.0 route and people rejected it out of hand. Go do Vote Compass or better yet draw a dick on your ballot so the rest of us don’t have to suffer your poor choices.

I wouldn’t necessarily discount Labor having to form minority government. It’s certainly within the polling margin of error for Greens to pick up a couple seats from them, especially in Melbourne.

My immediate thought of leftist/progressive gaming influencers was F1nn5ter. I’m not really into that circle of content creation though.

I use this constantly by the way heh

https://www.begaydocrime.com/ :3

I think it’s a lot of things honestly. For example, it’s not surprising that education continues to be attacked so much in the US, as it reduces the prevalence of right wing opinions based off all polling. I think it’s a big cause of the shift to the right among Gen Z, and I think the only thing that’s going to fix it critical media literacy, which it might be too late for a bunch of that generation, and even some of Gen Alpha.

What I will say is that over the last ~15yrs, globally, we’ve seen a hard shift towards the right wing of politics. But a lot of that has happened on the internet in specific spaces where folks have been radicalised, and if you get into niche enough communities then you just don’t see it really at all.

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It’s the uneducated or intellect impaired that should be reined in.

Are you aware that this genuinely sounds like some nazi shit? Let’s maybe not start controlling what the “intellect impaired” can do with their lives…

Technically it’s only compulsory to have your name checked off the rolls and put your ballots in the boxes. What you do in the booth is between you and the goddesses.

Believe what you want to believe. I’m just glad I don’t live somewhere this is a problem on the level of the U.S. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

There are plenty of healthy ways to perform masculinity. If all you’ve managed to understand from that discourse is “all masculinity is toxic” then I’m afraid you just haven’t been paying attention. Toxic masculinity is when young men are taught that the only way to be a man is to be strong, outgoing, possessive, stoic, unemotional and tall (among other things). Toxic masculinity is when men that don’t fit those stereotypes are beaten down, verbally, but often physically, because they don’t conform. Because they’re gay, have “effeminate” hobbies, are short, weak, empathetic, dress sharply, you name it. It’s also harmful to women, but more than anything it’s men hurting other men for nonconformance.

Btw why do we never hear about toxic femininity?

Because it’s not a deeply structural societal issue? Before I transitioned, I faced the effects of toxic masculinity every single day, dozens if not hundreds of times a day. Meanwhile, yeah, my conformance to femininity has absolutely been questioned post-transition, but nowhere near as much. Women and girls have spent the last two centuries working through the toxic and smothering nature of traditional femininity, as much as the patriarchal nature of society had allowed us too.