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If you're considering how good software is, how it was made is irrelevant, the only thing to measure is how well it works. A criticism of Linux from a user perspective is still valid regardless of who is or isn't to blame.

Thanks for the info, I'm on linux mint and after checking these out it isn't immediately apparent from their websites whether or how I could install them. Still think etcher occupies a niche that alternatives don't fill, its website directs you straight to installing it, it's cross platform, and using it is very easy, so it's something that could reasonably be linked to in various install tutorials.

I almost never use my phone, mostly just when I need it for authentication stuff. Computer only for everything else. Hoping to be able to get rid of the phone at some point.

what's standing in the way of MY ability to be content without conventional markers of accomplishment?

Great question, I'd guess it is the terror our culture and economy instills in people, and the idea that your primary worth as a person is as a financial investment.

Rufus seems to be just for Windows and dd does not have a gui

I don't actually know how good it is but another software that does screen sharing you might try is Jitsi

Matrix is the main one I think

Yeah I mean I did read the translated version, but translations are imperfect. Looks like this confirms that there is a recent spike though

That seems kind of shitty, if he only cheated to qualify but otherwise won the prize without cheating

Maybe they are planning to find some flaw with the kitten as a pretense to haggle for a lower price

Not sure, the article links to another article about the recent state of Argentina's economy and currency though, which seems to be saying among other things that its stability became worse in 2023, which was closely followed by spikes in cryptocurrency adoption:

I'm not 100% on all that though since I can't read Spanish

Cryptocurrency has exploded in Argentina in recent years, as disillusioned savers sought to keep their money outside traditional banks amid a decades-long economic crisis and soaring inflation rates.

Kind of makes sense if the people in charge of running their official currency are this corrupt as to be doing blatant pump and dumps on Twitter

Will they even know if they are throwing it all away?

Silicone caulk, lithium batteries, sharkbite fittings, laminate flooring, etc. I remember watching my father struggling with diy house projects and a lot of that is clearly easier now because of various advances.

I have and I think it makes a lot of sense that psychedelics could potentially help with OP's specific problem

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. -Albert Hofmann

This has got to be a South Korea specific thing right? I thought game concepts were generally fair game

Wouldn't work if it's Reddit itself manipulating the results

A better analogy would be a ban on posts that are just a link to a Steam page or a ticket sale page. In which case, yeah, makes sense, that's spam.

Even in a bookbclub, the library won’t have 15 copies of the same book, some people will have to buy it, unless your book club comprises 2 people.

IME this is not so much a problem because people are using ebooks and you can digitally check out books from other libraries than the one closest to you. If there is a lack of copies, that could be grounds for going with a different book.

So we shouldn’t have communities around videogames (or board games), professional sports, traveling, food, clothes, most hobbies, or anything else, because it costs money?

This is not at all what I'm saying. Does wanting to ban paywall links equate to wanting journalism to die? No, but it makes sense to do, and if it making sense to do conflicts with the business model, that's not a moral problem because people aren't obligated to help companies make their (imo stupid and harmful in this case) decisions work out for them.

If my primary interest in something is talking to people about it, then gatekeeping destroys its value to me. If my interest in a game is its multiplayer, but nobody plays it anymore, then yeah not only would I not pay for it I also would not spend the harddrive space to install it even if it were free.

Imagine you're organizing a book club. Wouldn't it make sense to require that prospective books to read are available through the library system? The nature of a book club is that you'll have to read things you might not be interested in on your own, but it's worth the effort because of the opportunity to share and gain perspectives of the other people there. Reading by itself is already an investment of time and effort, getting people to organize enough to have a discussion about something is already difficult, so the endeavor has a clear interest in avoiding the presence of an additional, financial, barrier to a successful discourse.

"You get what you pay for" doesn't make sense here. The paywall makes it worthless for the given purpose whether or not you pay, which is why it would make sense for people administering link aggregator/discussion sites like this one to ban paywalled links.