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  • I would argue that owning additional property in an environment where there is a housing shortage is implicitly unethical even if you're trying to run it ethically. Only argument I can think of against that is that you're keeping it from shittier landlords and corporations. But still, denying others the opportunity to grow their wealth through property ownership causes poverty on a mass scale. Not any one person's fault, but still.

  • If you want to have uBlock, you can also use Kiwi browser to install extensions. Or Firefox, but its app kinda sucks imo.

  • Torguard is the best! $30 per year with my current plan and it's reliable enough to play games.

  • Indiscriminate bombing of innocent civilians, refugee camps, and hospitals, all while refusing to allow even basic aid, is not a "great job".

  • Churchill is saying that democracy is the best form of government in the quote. He is just saying it in a funny way.

  • Right-wing political philosophy is becoming so authoritarian that we're really harassing people who just lost their pregnancy, treating them like criminals until proven otherwise.

  • I think it's already a great system, its philosophical foundation of being built around user freedom is fantastic. It just has a few things that are definitely still problems for desktop users. Namely,

    • Sensible defaults
    • Proprietary driver management
    • Distros needing to distribute software in their repos instead of authors doing it themselves
    • Too many competing application formats, each with glaring issues
    • Inconsistent theming with GTK vs QT (mostly app developers' faults tho)
    • Both popular display servers have huge issues
    • Lack of manufacturer support for hardware (this will come with time if Linux continues to become more popular)
    • Incompatibility with existing standards, especially Microsoft products
    • Lacking proper professional applications for things like video editing that actually work consistently
    • Gaming anti-cheat compatibility
    • Generally being easy to break the whole system on accident
    • Power consumption on mobile devices

    I guess that's a lot, but it's still a great system ha.

  • It's crazy that in the modern day there are still places on Earth where failing to adhere to a religious dress code results in immediate public beatings or arrests. Crazy but also not that surprising unfortunately.

  • Consistent sleep is the #1 sleep-related correlate of academic performance, even more so than duration or quality! Sleeping at the same time every night is incredibly important.

  • I guess it's just weird since you're the first person I've ever seen complain about them! Sorry you had a bad experience.

  • That's bizarre, I have the opposite experience ha. Nvidia drivers with my 1660 produced buggy video output nearly 100% of the time, even idling on desktop would randomly cause black bars to appear every few frames. I tried 3 different driver versions but each one broke something different. Both X11 and Wayland sucked. On the Nvidia forums the devs were basically apologizing and saying it would be fixed later in these huge threads of people documenting similar issues. To my knowledge a lot of my issues still exist with my hardware.

    My 5700 worked flawlessly OOTB without any tinkering. Open-source MESA drivers were packaged with my Debian 12 install and they have never stuttered or bugged out on me. I literally do not even think about my GPU setup anymore, it just works and required 0 configuration on my end.

    Did you just have a different hardware setup? Was this a brand new release of an AMD GPU that just didn't have good driver support on your distro yet?

  • On Linux all the drivers are included with the kernel. No software to manage either, it just works. Nvidia drivers need to be installed separately on Linux and are generally very low quality with performance and technical issues.

    Idk about Windows though, never used an AMD GPU on it personally. My Nvidia GPU has always worked perfectly on Windows.

    So I guess it's just your OS choice really.

  • Because there was no reason to try any harder, no one to impress, not even yourself.

  • Unicomp makes copycat Model M's that are very high-quality and popular.

  • More than 10 probably

  • Dawson Springs, Kentucky. Middle of nowhere.

  • She's 5' even. Also a huge cave tho. Felt like an auditorium.

  • I thought this was more fun!