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You can’t build a gaming mac. Or a mac at all. Apple does seem to have better gaming support than Linux does though. The majority of my steam library has macOS support. Only a couple support Linux.

It seems like a nice one-two punch of Microsoft shitting the bed with Windows 11 at the same time Valve is taking big strides towards making Linux a viable option for gaming. I don’t think you would see this if either happened in isolation.

They don’t. Libre Office is maintained by a non-profit called The Document Foundation. They’re funded entirely by donations. I think they make enough to have some full time employees.

A lot of open source software is created by individuals or non-profits. The Mozilla foundation makes Firefox, for instance. They make money through donations and also Google pays them a ton of money to be the default search engine.

There are for profit companies that make or contribute to open source software. Such as Red Hat. They tend to make money by selling support for the software.

Did you ever find an answer? Gtkpod should work. I’ve used it with a 3rd gen regular iPod. I wonder if your iPod isn’t getting mounted automatically? Linux can’t mount it (at least it’s more complicated but I don’t know if there’s a solution) if the ipod is macos formatted. If it’s Windows formatted, it should just mount when you plug it in but you can use the mount command if it’s not mounting automagically. If it is mac formatted, you should be able to fix it on a windows computer.

I use Arch but you are kinda over zealous about how good AUR is. It is completely unmoderated and, as others have said, a security risk. But it can also pretty easily bork your system because of a bad package. I don’t know how long you’ve been using Arch but it’s only a matter of time before you’re pulling your hair out trying to fix a broken dependency.

Arch is also not the only distro with giant repositories. Void has a pretty massive repository but it’s better moderated. The Debian universe is just as big if not bigger but you have to add repositories, it’s not as central. Same with the Red Hat world. Arch just dumps it all in to one chaotic bucket which is very convenient but there are downsides.

They’re still an absurdly huge burger at every Burger King near me in the US. The suit is alleging they’re smaller than the advertisements. Not sure what OP is talking about but one thing I’ve noticed about BK is they are wildly inconsistent from location to location so it might be even more regional.

I switched to Darktable years ago and haven’t missed Lightroom at all. It takes some getting used to but it’s very good.

I have a Thinkpad T400 with Arch on it. It came out in 2008 which I believe is the last year XP got a release. But I’m pretty sure it came with Vista.

It runs like shit with a full desktop environment but with i3, it’s decent. I haven’t used it in a little while because I upgraded to a luxurious T440 recently but I have Intellij and Docker running on it. I can do most of my programming things. It’s definitely good enough for browsing the internet or running Libre Office.

It’s a quote from a British officer during ww2 about the Nazis. OP just changed nazi to Russian.

I’m not sure this is really a solvable problem but at the end of the day, DuckDuckGo is a for profit corporation. Privacy is more of a marketing angle than something they actually care about. Last year they allowed Microsoft to track mobile users of their “privacy focused” browser which is obviously against their stated purpose for existing. They backtracked after facing backlash but it’s done lasting damage to their reputation. They also got caught by a security researcher, they weren’t at all upfront about it. I think that’s enough to shatter any hope that they are genuine or trustworthy.

It’s also cheaper to keep people in jail forever than put them to death because of all the appeals. And despite being more careful, we still get it wrong.

He’s obviously not poor enough to not be able to come up with 20 grand. But if your backup plan is to flee the country, why put up any of your own money? He’s going to try to be in Moscow or some other country that won’t extradite him if it starts looking bad. He might not actually pull it off but he’s dumb enough to think he can.

It was dijon mustard.

I have a 2013. It gets shit gas mileage but I’ve never had any problems other than normal consumable parts.

That’s an evil looking cathedral

How is this news?

Texas is particularly important. It’s their electoral counter balance against California’s machine number of electoral votes. If Texas ever durably flips blue, there will never be a Republican President again and they will be very unlikely to win the senate.

At first, definitely but I learned some restraint in order to not die. I have a lot of beer drinking friends and family though which helps.