the thing I think a lot of "linux dorks" (and I use that term lovingly) forget about is that most people want to work on their computer, not work on their computer. The OS, for most people, should be the software equivalent of a motherboard -- an invisible plinth upon which the actual things you care about sit. With a motherboard, that's your GPU, CPU, RAM, etc. and with the OS, that's the applications you run.
there's nothing wrong with making fiddling with your computer a hobby, and I've been known to dabble myself over the years, but for me and most other normal people, that ends up being too much work for too little reward in the end. Mint getting to the point where you can daily drive it and not have to worry about it even if you're a complete brainlet when it comes to Linux is a massive W.
I'm hoping for a collapse so that we can just get it over with already
I've dealt with "circling-the-drain-dread" for the past year now, we voted for it, let it all just implode already so we can get to the "unfucking things" stage sooner.
uBlock Origin blocks ads, it generally doesn't block cookie popups (and if it does, only on the initial load). This will nuke any overlay that appears during, or after the page loads. So cookie popups, newsletter subscription begging, all that shit goes away, even the ones that wait until you start scrolling.
allow me to introduce you to PopUpOFF, for popups like this on websites. It's very effective at sending shit like this to the shadow realm.
won't be able to help on a third party app though, but if popups like this annoy you like they annoy me, figured you'd be interested. Could probably work on their mobile site.
Precisely. Full Speed Swarm with some damage mods made the game so much better. Guns felt like guns but ho boy you were not at a loss of things to kill and it still was not easy
honestly I modded the fuck out of my Payday 2 because I didn't like how tanky enemies were on higher difficulties compared to how fragile the player is. I'm fine with being fragile (if anything I prefer it because it's realistic), but if I shoot someone in the face with a 12 gauge, I expect their face to not exist anymore, just like mine -- whereas on anything higher than death wish, without modding, you might as well be throwing pocket sand at them while they down you with maybe 1 or 2 shots.
Fortunately, the entire game being a house of cards built on LUA makes modding it super easy. Even works online, whether you're the host or not, though some effects from mods will only work if you're the host.
Four goddamn years I had to wake up every day and pay attention to what asinine shit the President of the United States tweeted.
Because, unfortunately, that utter cretin had the nuclear button.
And now we have to endure another four years of the same.
Shit, for all the bad things you can say about Biden, you can at least say that whenever you heard a story start with "Today, the president said..." in the news, you weren't immediately going "ah fuck here we go". Four years I dealt with that kind of reflexive dread.
God, I wish I could just slip into a coma until 2029.
My mother had a behemoth of a Panasonic console TV in her living room right up to the early 2010s. Still worked when we got rid of it, too, just finally decided it was time to upgrade. I remember, when we moved it, there was a half-inch-deep sunken area where it sank into the floor over the years, compressing the carpet.
the thing I think a lot of "linux dorks" (and I use that term lovingly) forget about is that most people want to work on their computer, not work on their computer. The OS, for most people, should be the software equivalent of a motherboard -- an invisible plinth upon which the actual things you care about sit. With a motherboard, that's your GPU, CPU, RAM, etc. and with the OS, that's the applications you run.
there's nothing wrong with making fiddling with your computer a hobby, and I've been known to dabble myself over the years, but for me and most other normal people, that ends up being too much work for too little reward in the end. Mint getting to the point where you can daily drive it and not have to worry about it even if you're a complete brainlet when it comes to Linux is a massive W.