I'd grow food. Good food, and way more than I or my family could possibly eat. I'd also grow beautiful, ecosystem-supporting native plants. I'd offer to do the same for my neighbors who dont enjoy such things, or who just want a beautiful and functional yard.
With my leftover time i'd go hiking a couple times a week, and I'd read scientific literature when the sun goes down.
Bamboo is monocarpic (true bamboo at least.). The huge clonal colony flowers once and dies, even below ground. The seeds that fall grow the next generation.
Bamboo species tend to all flower at the same time at the end of a years or decades long cycle. This bottlenecks how much it can spread clonally (underground roots) but gives it another method to spread.
Rats, mice, and other rodents eat the seeds, so there is some ecosystem regulation already
Places with good habitat but no native bamboos like Hawaii have really bad problems with colonies taking over huge areas
The way you dress and carry yourself also informs the way different communities react to you. It's not so much about fitting in as it is about not giving people red flags. Different communities have different red flags.
That's my perspective coming from one of the more diverse parts of the Bay Area.
What switches do people use now? I only ever had Cherrys until i switched to buckling springs. Most boards i see in stores dont seem to use Cherry, there is some sort of sheath on the switch stems now.
I still have one Cherry green board i really like. It seems built to last, and the switches feel great.
They arent stupid. The information is opaque unless you are an enthusiast.
99% of people have no interest in installing an operating system. They have no interest in learning about different types of software installation. That's not stupidity, it's just preference.
Until recently, the only Ps4 and Ps5 emulators were linux only.
This particular point cuts both ways and has for a while. Some emulators are Windows only, some (though likely fewer) are Linux only, and the vast majority are cross-platform
The author lost me when they showed the terminal command to install Nvidia drivers on Debian. Yes, it's one sentence. That's still extremely daunting to the vast majority of computer users. It undermines the author's own thesis.
Linux is a better gaming OS for some (myself included) but there is still a small learning curve. It's nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be, but it's not nothing.
I'd have softened the title and focused on the ways Linux shines as a gaming OS: compatibility with older games (1990-2010 in my experience) that dont work on modern Windows, the ability to get more performace out of older hardware, consistent behavior, and a much more pleasant desktop experience.
Windows is a better choice for many people, but Linux is just as good for many and a better choice for some.
New distros get a lot of crap, but often they are solving a need for someone.
Take Windowmaker Live: ostensibly it's just Debian + Windowmaker. I have seen comments saying why not just install WM on Debian? By asking that question, it's clear the asker hasnt tried recently. There is a lot to configure, and there are lots of usability papercuts.
A custom distro allows someone to fix those problems for themself, and share those fixes with others. It's not fragmentation, it's just FOSS.
I dont have a steam deck, but there seems to be some relevant info in this thread:
https://lemmy.world/post/28889844
Tl:Dr Any keyboard will work. The part that takes setup is installing a program that can rebind the macro keys