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...but investigators are exploring multiple causes, including arson.

I think it's quite telling that they're likely considering the strong possibility that these wonderous marvels of cost-cutting may have just spontaneously lit themselves ablaze without help, at rest, in a parking lot.

For a majority of other vehicles, that'd be an absurd conclusion. But Teslas contain a baffling amount of greed-motivated engineering and numerous fire incidents. It isn't talked about enough and I see more of these things by the day. There has to be some kind of "reputation management" going on.

Either way, ::: spoiler remember kids! If you see someone setting an unoccupied swastikar ablaze... No you didn't. :::

People can do whatever they like, and heck I find CLI intimidating sometimes, but I'm always learning something new a little bit at a time.

I'm tired of seeing it in every field of interest that has any kind of payoff, whether art or FOSS.

"I'm [(almost always) a guy] who (maybe has kids and) has a job. I stopped learning anything after I got my job-paper / degree / highschool diploma. I shouldn't have to learn anything anymore. I am happy to shell out disposable sad-salary-man money (and maybe my soul idk) to any mega-corp that offers me a "create desired outcome button" without me having to think too much. It's [current year]! I shouldn't have to think anymore! Therefore Linux is super behind and only for nerds and I desire its benefits so much that I leave this complaint anywhere these folks gather so they know what I deserve."

Agh. I gotta go before this rant gets too long lol

I've been seeing "comfortable" a lot, but I think honestly it's less comfort and more confusion. I know it's popular to portray us all as lazy, drinking our Big Gulp slushies and watching sportsball, but that's not the whole picture.

We all know it sucks, we might call our reps, our friends might go wave some signs...but ultimately we're culturally unaccustomed to organization, and that part cripples meaningful resistance. As the commenter below me stated, "lack of civic culture" and "hyper individualism" nails it.

Okay, we all want different things, we all struggle at wildly different randomized shifts because most of us are one missed paycheck away from disaster, how do we know who our friends are? No no, not the "Yeah man, that sucks lol idk." friends, the ones who will actually fight with you?

Consequently, we're suffering a massive lonliness epidemic where a lot of people not only have very little civic ties, they don't even have a network of reliable companionship! A lot of this is simply thanks to suburban dominance and nowhere left to meet that's not charging admission.

Hey, points for Lutris! Thanks for sharing!

I've had issues in the past installing stuff with Lutris, although for advanced scenarios like using community engines and stuff, that's really cool. I definitely have both installed on my machine for different reasons. Lutris handles EA / Origin stuff pretty well. (Titanfall 2 and Sims 2 Ultimate (not the Steam one) run beautifully on Linux, truly glorious!)

Electron annoys me as well, but I will say that I appreciate how Heroic hooks into GoG APIs. It handles auto-updates, cloud saving, play time logging, that kinda stuff that made Galaxy decent and had a degree of convenience-parity with Steam.

(Maybe Lutris does this too now?)

For a complete newbie , I'd say Heroic has a bit of a smoother and expected ramp to just "Download game and run." But if you want more control, Lutris definitely has more options!

I also can't recommend Bottles enough for other games that aren't from distribution platforms. Shockingly simple.

I think we're saying a similar thing, but I understand your point better.

I have read plenty of research essays where you can feel the emotion, you can surmise the position and most of all passion of the author.

Exactly! That's what I mean. There's so many subjects I expected to be incredibly dry, but the writing reminded me it was written by a person who obviously cares about other people reading the text. One can communicate any subject without giving up their soul.

(I am always surprised, but I find this in programming books often, haha.)

But that's what I meant by cardboard as well, I think we might be in agreement:

We expect to see a lot more writing that comes across like "This is what writing should look like, right?"

Writing that understands words, and "averages" the most likely way to convey information or fill a requirement, but doesn't know how to wield language as an art to share ideas with another person.

So you just wanna expand the absolute bonkers premise of Kid Nation . Lol

Not surprising, seeing as how the entire party is based around a violently enforced sitcom-esque vision of an eternal 1950's.

Exactly. Because how can you really punish people at that level? You're not throwing them into federal lockup or something right? Lol

But at the same time, it's ridiculous how much an unknown intel officer would be absolutely ruined by some of these mistakes, but an elected official can do whatever they want and it pretty much comes down to

"Oh, whoopsie. Even if I did admit to any of that...good thing I have all this clout!"

I remember being told once that we don't court marshal / jail high ranking officials like that because it would be "embarrassing to the country", and that never made sense to me. Wouldn't a fair application of the law signal to the world that we don't take shit and we're reasonably civilized instead of some corrupt crumbling empire? (Yes, I'm being rhetorical lol...)

This is how I was taught to write up to highschool. Very "professional", persuasive essays, arguing in favor of something or against it "objectively". (Assignment seemed to dictate what side I could be on LOL.) Limit humor and "emotional speech." Cardboard.

I was taken aback in my first political science course at the local community college, where I was instructed to convey my honest arguments about a book assignment on polarization in U.S politics. "Whether you think it's fantastic or you think it sucks, just make a good case for your opinion." Wait, what?! I get to write like a person?!

I was even more shocked when I got a high mark for reading the first few chapters, skimming the rest, and truthfully summarizing by saying it was plain that the author just kept repeating their main point for like 5 more chapters so they could publish a book, and it stopped being worth the time as that poor horse was already dead by the 3rd chapter.

It was when it hit me, that writing really was about communication, not just information.

I worry about that these days: That this realization won't come to most, and they'll use these Ai tools or be influenced by them to simply "convey information" that nobody wants to read, get their 85%, and breeze through the rest of their MBA, not caring about what any of this is actually for, or for what a beautiful miracle writing truly is to humanity.

I was scared to click that link but now I can't breathe 😂

Off the top of my head:

Gmail or any email: Thunderbird is pretty sweet and I need to use it more, but mostly just use the web clients anyway.

If you own GoG games, you can use Heroic Launcher instead of GoG Galaxy. It's gotten amazingly good, really fast. :)

More studies are required before we come to any certain conclusions. We require concrete evidence...and rebar evidence...maybe carbon fiber evidence...or...

It was gonna be twins but they deduplicated, so conveniently the one simply holds a reference to the existence of the other one.

Honest question: I thought this limitation was the purpose of exFAT? 🤔

I don't use it much myself though so I'm not sure.

I can't help but try to phonetically call it "BUTTERFURSS". O.o

I want to add to this their absolutely egregious forced kernel-level anti-cheat. It demands full privileged access to a user's machine, and unlike some competing systems, it doesn't want to go away when the game is no longer being played.

The assurance this won't be used or exploited for ultra-malicious purposes across the globe by a corporation owned ultimately by the CCP is...

"Just trust me, bro."

Most of which probably park that van in their 5-car garage between shoots. 😂

LOL Fixed it.

Thought the implied sexual joke (involving an animal even) might get someone dragged into HR if some manager or tattletale coworker happened to be lurking, so thought I'd play it safe. :p

I haven't posted here much and thought "Well if someone was viewing this at work, the implied bestiality joke (and language) might get them into trouble with puritanical management."

But I've been assured it doesn't cross a line, so I fixed it. :)

Fixed. Thanks for the clarification. I also thought the implied bestiality joke might get someone dragged into HR if the wrong dork happened to shoulder-surf them so thought I'd play it safe. :p