Was the whole TikTok drama a bait-and-switch to make Trump look good?
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He could pressured the party to take away Manchin and Sinema's committee assignments.
This would've just handed control of Congress over to the Republicans due to losing their votes.
He could have gone after them for insider trading.
This would've required an act of Congress, as there's no executive authority regarding such matters.
He could have gone after Manchin's daughter for price gouging insulin,
This might be ethically justified but it's outside the scope of the office of the president.
I use gui more for file management. I dont like using the terminal for that since I have to remember everything constantly.
Well of course. The only time terminal is really useful for file management is when you want to do mass operations (e.g. find all filenames that match a pattern and rename them with another pattern) or when you're managing a remote/headless system.
Why isnt the /home separate from /root by default? Frankly I dont see any benefits from it being in there.
It complicates the setup process to make multiple partitions. Generally speaking I wouldn't want an automated process to mess with partitioning a drive for me, I would either be satisfied with the basic single-partition setup or else set up the partitions manually.
If you do set up your partitions manually, make sure you create a swap partition of at minimum 2GB, though if you plan to use hibernation you'll need enough swap to store your entire RAM contents, plus additional space for the swap itself.
Your OS partition doesn't need to be all that big, Linux tends to be pretty efficient. 30GB is probably enough to provide room for growth.
Also, what is your opinion on kubuntu vs fedora regarding this?
I used Kubuntu for many years, but I don't really like the recent changes in Ubuntu, especially the move away from standard repository package management in favor of snaps.
Fedora is a solid choice, and may be particularly useful if you plan to do anything career-wise with Linux. There's a lot of RedHat/Fedora/CentOS in industrial and enterprise computing.
Personally I've recently started using EndeavourOS, and I'm pretty happy with it so far. It's an Arch variant, but designed to be useful out-of-the-box. The only thing I miss occasionally is Synaptic, there really isn't anything comparably competent for any of the non-Debian distros unfortunately.
Do you like indoor plumbing?
The problem i’m having is that i want the good things from windows desktop. for example; tray icons, being able to control filesystem easily with gui, shortcuts on desktop.
KDE uses a system tray for various status indicators, so that's probably what you're looking for. You should know that on Linux the OS and the desktop environment are modular components. You can have multiple DEs and choose which one you want to log into. You can try different DEs, in parallel, without reinstalling your entire OS. It will still be the same OS/file system underneath. All you have to do is find and install the corresponding desktop environment packages in your package manager.
KDE is probably the most feature-rich DE, though depending on the specific distro it may not have the entire range of KDE applications installed by default. Your distro should have KDE group packages like "kdebase", "kdegames", "kdeutils", etc, which provided groups of applications based on functional areas. I recommend these over installing every application individually, and you can always trim down later if there are things you don't need.
There are other DEs, like XFCE and LXQt, but most of them are geared around minimalism or creating a specific look/feel and don't have the feature depth of KDE.
GUI file manager should be no problem in any DE/distro, though you will be limited in what you can edit from your user account (please don't run as root for normal use).
As far as desktop icons, most DEs favor an organized application launcher over icons. Do you use desktop icons more for launching applications or for opening files?
As for retaining your settings, my recommendation would be to create /home
as a separate partition from /
(root) when you do your OS install. All of your user configuration and your files will be in /home, which gives you the freedom to reformat and reinstall the OS in / without affecting your user files (when you run the OS installer, you'll need to manually configure the partitions, then tell it to use the existing /home but not format it). This also adds some safety for your personal files in case you are making changes to the OS and you end up breaking it - you can just replace it without losing your stuff.
Also if you're considering running multiple distros (Fedora, Debian, Arch, w/e), you can give each of them a separate root partition and have them all use the same /home partition, so your files will be available in all of them. In this case I recommend also making a separate /boot partition, which would be shared across all distros.
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proprietary = trash
Ah, what is it you think he could have changed, without Congress? Like, specifically?
Hmm, every computing system is a collection of bottlenecks... in most desktops the CPU has a dedicated bus for the RAM because any other device in that path would slow down the communication with the RAM.
The point is, bottlenecks can be designed around. Making the memory component faster makes it worthwhile to double or triple the memory bus bandwidth, or just reduce the amount of memory in the system while keeping the same level of functionality. And the slower components can be segregated out to their own communication paths (that's what all the different pins on the bottom of the CPU are for).
Usually the hardest part is getting the software to use the hardware properly. We've had consumer multicore processors for 2 decades now but most applications still don't do parallel processing efficiently. Hell, a lot of them are still 32 bit and can't use the 64 bit memory address space.
tl;dr: hardware guys are genius wizards, software developers mostly suck
So when Trump pulls the rug, the magards will finally realize they've been took.
Bless your heart.
No, no it will be the democrats' fault somehow. Or brown people. Or both. Probably both.
You just broke the secret law!
Typical fascist behavior.
Quality control is expensive, and all they ever do is complain about how my brilliant idea to save money will kill more trees or some shit.
Is it possible that some of the discomfort comes from trying to use controls that are too small?
I also have big hands, and I find the Switch controllers uncomfortable because they feel like they were meant for baby hands, and they're flat so it's an effort to keep hold of them. I find the Deck very easy to hold because its grips are built like a proper controller and all the buttons are within comfortable reach. The ergonomics make a big difference.
Valve put a lot of design effort into the form of the Deck:
eh, reddit was like that for like the first 10 years
Ooh, that's nice, I might have to try that myself.
Is it just one guy's project though? that kind of thing worries me in an xkcd #2347 kind of way.
Don't get a Steam Deck. It's far too convenient. Everything just works the way it's supposed to. You tell it to install a game, it does that. You tell it to run a game, it does that. You need a break, you just tap the power button and it goes to sleep. You want to play again, you just tap the power button and it resumes the game you left running like nothing happened. You want to install a bigger hard drive so you can have more games, you can do that. You want to replace the sticks because you've worn them out, you can do that. You want to plug it into a TV and use it to watch Netflix, you can do that. You want to plug it into a monitor, mouse and keyboard and use it as desktop, you can do that.
You'll sit on the couch and play games, you'll sit on the shitter and play games, you'll sit in bed and play games. You'll take it on the bus, the train, the airplane, no problem.
Don't buy a Steam Deck, you won't get anything else done.
Oh, but you might finally play some of those untouched games in your library, so there's that.
I installed GE proton, which fixed the lobby audio bug in phasmophobia, is there any reason I shouldn't just use that version of proton for all steam games?
Typically if you install a specific version to fix a specific bug, that version will be static (to maintain the bugfix) and may not get future Proton updates rolled into it (unless someone is actively maintaining that special version).
It's best to stick with the default Proton version (which should be the latest stable build) except when you need to fix a specific problem, and assign specific fix versions only for the game/application that requires it.
surveillance of NATO
NATO as a surveillance group is definitely a boogeyman created by Russian and Chinese propaganda. NATO countries share some military information with each other, but it's not an intelligence organization.
You're probably thinking of the Five Eyes, for which there is actual credible documentation of domestic surveillance.
Give'em the disease then sell'em the cure.