Finally. We can use Blender to fix the blender. We're truly living in the future, my friends. :D

Thanks for your insight. That at least sheds a tiny bit of logic on this insanity.

Yeah. As a U.S person it's unsettling watching an empire crumble around you without much way out when you wanted to just do your thing and get along in life like anybody else. * Sigh*

Oh. Wow. You win.

If that rooftop guy could hit the mark like this comment did, we wouldn't be having to listen to his chaotic-evil nonsense right now.

And freaking why? When people are still struggling with basic shit like food insecurity in the borders we already have.

I know I'm asking this rhetorically and it's all ridiculous it's just...why???

Haha nice! Similar journey! My step 3 was when Win10 kept BSODing my games, and then being more subtly broken when I booted it up.

"Okay, I'll just 'refresh this PC'." I said.

"Can't." Said Win10.

"Why not?" Says I.

"Lol-idk" says Win10 with an indifferent shrug.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed runs all my creative artwork tasks AND all my games run beautifully. Just pointed Steam to the folder and it handled everything automagically.

Game doesn't crash anymore on the same hardware, BTW.

Tumbleweed my beloved. ❤️

Endeavour is just freaking lovely. The community is really chill and welcoming, too.

Also all the ethereal purple space aesthetic is rad. We gotta get them some proper artwork haha. (Some of it seems generated)

Man. THANK YOU.

I'm all for welcoming and teaching everyone, but I'm getting real tired of all the "Linux will never catch on because grandma can't instantly VM-passthrough her NVIDIA card and remote in with Wireguard" or "changing the wallpaper requires terminal-ninja skills" rhetoric.

Some common things could use simpler on-ramps but people act like mega-corpo you're-too-dumb-let-us-do-it-for-you -ification is some kind of "good thing" for tech adoption , when the strategy is really to create dependent customers without a fundamental understanding of how anything works.

Oh. My. Word.

I thought I was clever by using history | grep <bit of command I remember>

I KNEW there had to be a better way!

So far I have little Wayland annoyances with my Nvidia 30-series card, but I get those with proprietary AND their open drivers. In a weird way I take this as a good sign?

I feel like progress is being made. Even though Nvidia are still a bunch of butts.

(If CUDA weren't so handy for Blender I'd strongly be considering a swap-out!)

Let's abolish hierarchy altogether and agree to celebrate each others' contributions to averting disaster.

This is great advice. Heed this advice, people.

Know what? I'll add to it. In Windows a power user will often end up screwing around in the registry or system files or whatever to crowbar it into doing what they want it to do...

But if you're opening a root shell or file-explorer screwing around outside your /home folder, digging around in / ? On your daily use machine?

STOP. ☠️

• FACT: People Systems have died and data has been irrecoverably lost by going into this cave.
• There's probably a much less dangerous way to accomplish whatever you're trying to do!!
• You shouldn't be poking around things and exploring a working system as ROOT! This is by design!

GO. NO. FURTHER!

These sorts of shenanigans are why you play around in virtual machines. :)

--Sincerely: Someone who manually deleted his writable in-use BTRFS snapshot when trying to free up space, thinking it was an orphan file that the system tools didn't detect, rendering his system unbootable and unrecoverable, forcing a complete reinstall. (I found this is analogous to the infamously dangerous "rm -rf /" , or thinking you're deleting an old Windows restore point but somehow wiping C:\ )

If you don't know what "3-2-1 backup" means. Now's the time to look that up!

Not 100% sure if there's an easy-mode for this one but just a friendly reminder to copy fstab to fstab.old or fstab.backup so you can revert to it if something doesn't go right. :)

Same story! The improvements in the gaming sphere really need to be experienced to be believed. But okay, Steam works great, we know that.

What about stuff that requires EA's launcher through Steam? Works.

EA exclusive stuff? Heroic Launcher. Works.

GoG? Heroic Launcher.

Ahh, but old disc games that Windows decided to just stop caring about anymore? Bottles. (Not 100% guarantee, but I've been IMPRESSED at how easy it was to get something like Sims 1 to play.)

Hotel? Trivago.

Now I just hope the Monado project can make some leaps so we can get WMR devices working on Linux. VR is super neat and I don't wanna leave it behind completely. :( (Still grudging against M$ so hard for that.)

I agree with you for a hobby OS. Like if somebody wants to learn and knows generally how to back up what they don't want to lose, Arch is invaluable! I'm currently enjoying EndeavourOS on my gaming laptop for how newb-friendly the community is.

If someone just wants a working machine that allows them to dabble if they're feeling it, Mint is good for that. Not everyone's gotta be a sysadmin right?

I personally feel like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is a great balance though.

It works, yet it rolls, and you can still mess around if you want. Although it's sometimes frustrating when it does things differently than Arch or Ubuntu and the advice is scant... But I guess that's it's own learning experience!

I occasionally make a project out of learning things like compiling software, but it doesn't demand too much maintenance when I just need to get stuff done.

Edit: sorry for the rant. Morning Adderall and lots of thoughts on the subject. :)

I think a lot simply don't know what they can effectively do about it. As is usually the issue with lefty causes, it's a lot more brain-work and more complicated than chanting a petty slogan and/or a vague willingness to raid a capitol with no actual goal or understanding in mind.

Right now, beyond just trying to hustle the next dollar to keep existing while under this stupidity, it's very difficult for us average working-class folk to understand how we can actually punish these powers responsible. Corporations and their fascist backers have become hydras.

If there was some kind of "Here's how you can effectively ruin these bastards' day for a better tomorrow without risking prison" playbook we could agree on, I'm sure a lot of people would be willing.

We mock neoliberal masses for buying EVs thinking it's saving the planet, but at the same time, buying something is one of the few levers the average person is allowed to pull, and they were told it would help. I'd like to think they mean well even though they're being manipulated.

They try to recycle and try to vote and try to stop buying stuff on Amazon, then sigh and keep trudging along when that obviously doesn't change anything. They probably get tired of being told they're not doing anything, especially without some sort of unifying "do this instead."

Some radicals block traffic and make a general nuisance of themselves occasionally and we watch as nothing happens.

Schoolkids appeal to liberal politicians to stop a doomed future and get chuckled out of the room. Nothing happens.

Whistleblowers expose corporate plans too evil for Saturday morning cartoons and end up conveniently killing themselves. Nothing happens.

I think we're past the point of diminishing returns on silly stunts for "Raising awareness".

Enough people know. Although complacent, they care. But give them a week off work to stop climate change and they still don't know what options they have available to them. Or where their allies are.

Furthermore, generally we tend to want to be good people who don't want to ruin our lives by openly warring with powers that be.

The Right gets away with their BS because they don't negatively impact profits. They're sock-puppet proxies for an astroturfed holy-war that's ultimately about cutting labor and drilling more oil, so even treason charges aren't enough.

But if we could finally stop arguing theory and get pissed off enough to march on Washington together or whatever, 2nd-amendment toting or not, we'd definitely be met with force for wanting to shut down the slave-driven garbage machines.

So besides "beg your reps" and "stop buying stupid things from evil companies" (almost everything at this point)...

What's our rallying cry?

How do we engage? Who's going to step up and lead?

The same capitalist logic that explains the loss of splitscreen multiplayer videogames pretty much applies across the entire socioeconomic sphere.

The ideal consumer-worker is an isolated one that must be concerned with getting their own products, transportation, goods, and services in order to continue participating in society, and must struggle on their own to find a means to pay for those requirements that never seems to be quite enough.

Why sell one thing people can share and pass on when you could sell multiple licenses for disposable things tied to users' individual identities? Then we just gotta convince everyone that a "Real Adult" (TM) has their own personal everything.

It's also amusing how, at the same time, capitalists love to pearl-clutch about the erosion of the family unit, and blame it on some kind of perceived moral ills, when they're actively forcing everyone to constantly be at their jobs.

Jobs always seem to be at the cost of our humanity, and we keep getting coerced to give them more of ourselves than we ought.

Hey friend, I really appreciate it. :)

That sincerity and love can change the world, and you're all the more courageous for it. Even if things suck, I'm glad we're not alone and there's people like you here by our side, figuratively or otherwise. :)

I always come back to a few sources of timeless wisdom in the face of all this nonsense. A lot of it found in the Bible, which I know won't get great reactions thanks to current events.

As a Christian anarchist, I'm also trying to do what I can to combat against the most evil cult of greed, hate, bloodshed, and misery that has become the American state-sponsored religion. It's a lot of grief and pain to watch the Gospel of selfless love be trampled and peddled by fascists, and the reactionary hatred of it from the oppressed in turn, who've only ever known its perversion against themselves.

But I digress. Here's a some wisdom I keep returning to, etched in my soul. Perhaps it will empower you as well. :)

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

-Ephesians 6:12

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

-Bruce Lee

And lastly , I've posted it many times before but damnit if this doesn't remind us why we're still here in the face of all this madness:

FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.

SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

--Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film version)

Oh my gosh, former Oklahomie for a while here! Can. Confirm.

I once lived in the Northeast by Tahlequah, and the options were dial-up, satellite (with that awful data cap and terrible pings), or a couple guys running an ISP that involved pointing a receiver at a radio tower but download speeds were restricted to like 40kbps.

For games I already had, SOME multiplayer was possible, and web browsing was mostly fine.

Example of DL speeds though: Metro 2033 said it would take like 3 or 4 solid days so my long distance GF (now wife!) literally just sent game files to me on a USB drive through the mail. LOL

Sadly they closed up shop, though.

But somehow, when I lived with my grandma who lived in a place called "Hennepin", they got blessed with DSL. Made zero sense but I didn't complain! Even though I had to put a second router in bridge/repeater mode so it'd reach me at the trailer I lived in like 20 yards away from the house! (Trailer didn't even have plumbing. Winter was "fun." LOL)

Absolutely wild how cut-off a lot of the country is.

The big stinky desert city I'm in now has its problems, and Cox charges out the nose, but at least we get unlimited fiber out of it.

Starlink might have been great for those folks if it wasn't headed by such stupid evil...

All honesty, I tend to be optimistic to a fault and try really hard to be cheerful.

Everything starts to crack once socioeconomics comes up. The news lately is all about how everything is about to get worse. "This is collapsing, that's more expensive, getting a slice of diminishing wages is going to be even harder now! They're cracking down here and forcing ads there." Etc etc.

When I'm knee-deep in fixing up my servers or making art or being with my people, everything is just peachy!

But yeah, "How next money tho?" Usually starts the mental downward spiral.

I love living, can do a ton of things, love learning, but I don't get along with churning out a repetitive task for increasingly worthless currency.

The world outside of what I'm choosing to do feels entirely impossibly out of our control. So I try to balance being informed with staying sane.

Like damn I don't need much, can't folk just be left alone? Lol

Wonder if a lot of people feel like I do?

Hugs for you, buddy. <3 the world's better with you in it.