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  • Tbh you can actually quite easily buy a computer with Linux pre installed (ironically they cost more than the ones that come with windows though). I wouldn't recommend it though, regardless of tech literacy. The problem is that Linux is like 70% easy and great, 20% frustratingly glitchy and unfinished, and 10% getting stuck on completely impossible problems that you will lose weeks of your life to before eventually concluding that no solution actually exists. Nothing ever quite just works, there's always some caveat or minor issue and you end up chasing rabbit holes instead of actually using your computer to do what you wanted to do

  • Ok firstly, suspending someone for weed is insane because that's not a performance enhancing drug, if anything it's performance degrading.

    Secondly ask yourself why are they catching someone for weed but don't catch all the obvious steroid use that literally every professional athlete does? It's because they've intentionally made it possible to cheat their system and get away with steroid use, and the trainers and officials are the ones helping the athletes.

    Watch the doco Icarus, the first half before it goes off the rails is all about how doping is an open secret and all athletes in all countries do it and their trainers help them

  • The Hamas Can't you see both sides are using identical arguments? Israel has also repeatedly said that their intention is to destroy Hamas, not the Palestinian people, but their actions show that that is utter bullshit of course (they even used suitcases full of cash to keep Hamas in power).

    Likewise Hamas claim to only be against the Zionists in order to gain public support but their charter literally says "from the Jordan river to the sea, Palestine will be free of Jews", and there are numerous reports of them raping and murdering innocent Israelis.

    Long story short, the current government of Israel and Hamas are both terrible, and supporting either of them is supporting a group whose goal is genocide. The US government is obviously extra complicit in genocide due to continuing to sell Israel weapons, but if you didn't already know that US foreign policy is pure evil then you haven't been paying attention

  • Just because one side of a conflict is evil doesn't automatically make the other side good. Evil can fight evil, and when it does we should condemn both sides. Hamas have literally said that their goal is to genocide the Israelis, if you think that's ok then that's terribly hypocritical of you. The only reason Israel is succeeding in that goal and Hamas are not is because USA is tipping the scales with their arms shipments etc

  • Agree to disagree I guess! I used an iPhone X as my daily driver for 3 years and was overjoyed to get the Android UI back when I switched back. The iPhone visuals are more consistent but the UX is significantly worse imo. There are a few things that I reckon are mainly just Apple being stubborn and refusing to admit they were wrong - e.g. the lack of a back button

  • I only recently found out about iPhones having 50% market share in the US and that's insane to me. I think anyone who's used both Android and iPhones a lot knows that iPhones are both a worse product and worse value for money, so in a fair market they would be the minority

  • Currently what billionaires do is never sell their assets so that they never have to pay capital gains tax (since they haven't realised the gain), but then take out large loans using those assets as collateral and live off the loans. That allows them to enjoy the benefits of their capital gain without ever paying tax on it.

    The line you quoted is saying that if you use some asset as collateral for a loan then for tax purposes that should count as realising any gains in value