That's fair, and you're right that it's possible, but as well it's possible all those accounts come online in a 3-4 month rotation.
The more important point for me though is whether or not there are transphobic moderation instances. I know they can be really abrasive, I've seen the PTB threads, but none of that seems to have been major instances of transphobia that I can tell. I'm all for defederation in those cases when admins refuse to moderate transphobic dogwhistles and the like, I was super supportive of the feddit.uk defed for example. But one admin on a team of many saying something transphobic that's a personal view doesn't quite reach that threshold for me. Especially on a larger instance where I think we have to consider the ramifications of fracturing the community a lot more in my opinion.
They both have tens of thousands of less users. As for the moderation, I know they can be bad at that, and difficult to appeal to, but I've yet to see anything transphobic.
I'd really hate to lose !linux@lemmy.ml honestly, it's the largest community for Linux stuff, and a big part of what I spend my time on Lemmy doing. While the stuff Nutomic has said is awful, I'd also really like to see instances of moderation on lemmy.ml that are problematic/transphobic before making the call to defederate.
If you wanna hard link a directory btw, use cp -lR <src-dir> <dest-dir> to do it. You can't actually hard link the directory itself, only its contents, so this command will create the directory structure and hard link the files within them.
I think it's still against the etiquette of torrenting as well. If you only download a few episodes from a season pack then partial seeding is fine, but leaving a game unplayable if you're the only seed is wrong in my opinion.
That said, in terms of solutions OP, if you're conscious of disk space:
You could hard link the files that don't change to a new folder, then copy the ones that do change. Don't need to change filesystems like the other person's solution. Soft link will also work but then when you wanna delete the torrent files you'll have to go manually copy the rest over to your install folder.
You could always try "force recheck" in the torrent application once you finish playing. It's likely that whatever changes are happening to those files only occurs while the game is open, potentially even just locking them to read-only, and the torrent application won't really recheck them once that happens without manual intervention.
I'm going to have to agree with the "politically immature" comment. There are more than two parties, and we're not even close to USA politics. That's part of why Dutton's polling has dropped so much, because he tried the MAGA 2.0 route and people rejected it out of hand. Go do Vote Compass or better yet draw a dick on your ballot so the rest of us don't have to suffer your poor choices.
I wouldn't necessarily discount Labor having to form minority government. It's certainly within the polling margin of error for Greens to pick up a couple seats from them, especially in Melbourne.
I think that's not quite right, otherwise you could say that Rufus is the same. Ventoy is a Live USB tool that allows you to drag and drop ISOs onto a storage device and boot them without needing to image the device at all. It has its own interface that it boots into, that lets you select which ISO to then boot up.
Lots of good answers to your other Qs here so I'm gonna focus on your last one. If you lack in-depth computer skills as much as I'm imagining, than I think the best distro for you would be Bazzite.
Firstly, I'm going to call out the users here suggesting Mint. Mint is only a good beginner distro for people that are already "early adopters" or tech-savvy to switch to Linux for the first time. When I first switched from Windows 10 on my desktop last year, I tried Mint. Keep in mind, I have extensive knowledge of the commandline and headless Debian from several years of running a homelab. I found it completely intolerable how much wasn't intuitive, how difficult cinnamon was, how much set up was involved in getting graphics drivers working, and gaming going. It wasn't that I'm incapable, it's that I don't want my gaming desktop to require that much tinkering just to play games. Let alone that I can't imagine how steep that learning curve would be for a casual gamer with minimal tech skills.
That brings me to Bazzite. I switched back fully to Windows 10 for several months because of how disillusioned I was before learning about it. Bazzite is one of a handful of distros that have taken the SteamOS experience from the Steam Deck and tried to build on/improve it. It uses the KDE desktop environment, which is super similar to Windows 10 in look and feel. It includes everything you need for gaming right out of the box, including graphics drivers already installed, Steam as well, all of the frameworks and compatibility tools you need already configured. It's immutable too, which means the system directories are locked down so you can't accidentally break things. There's a unified system updater that cover everything. The system, your applications, compatibility tools, all of it updated with just one click.
As well, games just work without needing special configuration. It's truly the easiest to use distro for people switching from Win10 that just want to play games with their computer, maybe some internet browsing and email alongside that. You also don't have to worry about stupid codec issues if you wanna watch youtube or streaming sites in the browser.
Seriously people, stop recommending Mint. All the folks who would be okay with the amount of tinkering it requires have already made the switch. If we want the less tech-savy gaming folks to be able to make the switch, we need to be recommending something that will just work out of the gates for them. Pushing them to distro-hop is just going to push them to Win11. Plus, the more that make that leap, the more likely game devs will have to target WINE, the less games will be borked. It's already pretty minimal though, especially if it doesn't use anti-cheat.
It’s the uneducated or intellect impaired that should be reined in.
Are you aware that this genuinely sounds like some nazi shit? Let's maybe not start controlling what the "intellect impaired" can do with their lives...
Technically it's only compulsory to have your name checked off the rolls and put your ballots in the boxes. What you do in the booth is between you and the goddesses.
That's fair, and you're right that it's possible, but as well it's possible all those accounts come online in a 3-4 month rotation.
The more important point for me though is whether or not there are transphobic moderation instances. I know they can be really abrasive, I've seen the PTB threads, but none of that seems to have been major instances of transphobia that I can tell. I'm all for defederation in those cases when admins refuse to moderate transphobic dogwhistles and the like, I was super supportive of the feddit.uk defed for example. But one admin on a team of many saying something transphobic that's a personal view doesn't quite reach that threshold for me. Especially on a larger instance where I think we have to consider the ramifications of fracturing the community a lot more in my opinion.