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.

Okay, but who is going to vote for those things if the Greens don’t win any House or Senate seats, even if they win the presidency?

Beef, the meat kept artificially cheap in the US by subsidies?

FTFY, you are not alone in this stupidity. “Dutch Trump” Wilders got his votes because the government said that maybe the whole country should not be one big cattle farm.

“The union made non-negotiable demands far in excess of what can be accepted if we are to remain competitive as a business,”

My dude, you literally have no competition! Your management bankrupted them by doing the same shit there that you are doing here! You know, before you all managed to fail upwards.

If you manage to be insolvent while running one of the largest monopolies on the planet, you should get checked out by a doctor, because it takes more than either base grade stupid or base grade malicious to be able to do that.

Also, isn’t the whole reason Boeing is in hot water since they can’t build shit right the fact they tried to fuck over the unionized workforce by building another factory in the Deep South, but the shit that comes out of there is falling apart? Seems to me, they need the union, not the other way around.

You def will be needing it to do a landing in any sort of crosswind though.

Which empire? I’d go for all of them

IIRC Hungary made it mandatory a while ago.

I get it, I got my family out of a country with a very similar “going to right-wing klepto-shitscape” trajectory right in the middle of COVID. Had to get my nose stuck every 3 days for a month. I worked sitting on the floor with my laptop on a cardboard box for 2 weeks, while all my furniture was said box and a mattress. Had to learn a fourth language while I was getting taken advantage by employers left and right.

No regrets, absolutely none. I don’t know the US, but where I’m from didn’t get better, it got so much worse I barely recognise it anymore.

It’s the same thing, they are all terrorists and war criminals.

There are warrants out for the leaders of both sides, with good reason.

Everything is a big bureaucratic hurdle in Germany. Hope you make it across to Europe though, it’s much calmer if not completely chill over here.

Und außerdem, wie ist mit deinen Deutschsprachkenntnissen?

I mean, I would not go as far as calling France a mistake… maybe a bit quirky is all.

Yeah, just like you can type sudo rm -fr / and it erases the French.

he’s not famous for worrying about the consequences of his actions

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”.

Do they still have CSTO after the Azerbaijan thing?