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Oh sick is Trump campaigning on that??

It's not just shunned, it's literally throwing your vote away. Voting laws in the US, including the electoral college, mean that it is literally impossible for a third party to win the presidential election. We need ranked choice or other alternative voting methods, and the EC needs to go away.

Walking away from the switch is making a choice. You're exactly as complicit in the result as if you had flipped the switch.

Should be the standard anyway. Reading email and texts from work, or responding to calls, is work. Unless your contact specifies on-call hours, you should ignore your boss outside of working hours. If they really want you to respond they can pay you overtime.

Switched back to Linux this week and I couldn't be happier.

Which games/mods are you talking about? It's very rare for mods to not work if the game works, you might just need to find an alternate application somewhere in the chain

It's gonna be way less hassle to just use Linux. The gaming situation is so vastly improved from 6 or so years ago, and the vast majority of games just work, with a large amount of the rest only needing minor tweaks.

The big exceptions are in competitive gaming, and even there it's pretty much limited to proprietary & intrusive anti-cheats that I wouldn't have installed on my Windows computer anyway; Riot's Vanguard and FACEIT are probably the two big ones. Also Fortnite -- even though EasyAntiCheat does work fine with Linux, Epic has chosen to explicitly not support it. If you do play one of those few games -- or use other proprietary software like the Adobe suite that also won't work -- a dual boot should be fine, it only takes maybe two minutes to swap over and unless you have two beefy GPUs you'll be limited in a KVM setup.

We know because no one else is doing it.

Somehow I doubt you're giving them as much as Google is. I despise ads but the current market realities mean that developing and maintaining a browser engine is not feasible without corporation-level resources.

Then your browser will have no money to develop itself.

Then we continue to use anti-tracking extensions and block all ads. This is not for you.

There are two choices, Chrome/Chromium and Firefox. Firefox is the good one.

"somehow or other" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Brother. Mozilla is the only browser company letting you keep those things, so you're not "moving" anywhere. And every feature they've announced is not targeted at you; your (and my) customized setup where we never see an ad and leave minimal trace is still fully supported. The PPA is designed to improve the state of Web advertising as a whole, and improve the situation for the normal user who is basically leaving a rich personal history on every site they visit.

You know the fediverse doesn't make its own browser right

This is why people do it... Because no one's willing to call them out and ask them to stop.

This is not really true in my experience. The vast majority of instructional videos and video essays are just repackaging a text resource, often just the list of references from Wikipedia. I think you're just falling for the veneer of professionalism that makes YouTubers popular, but remember it doesn't actually mean they know what they're talking about any more than a random forum poster. There are of course exceptions, but the glut of instructional videos is just because they're profitable, not because they're actually full of unique knowledge.

I think this is very deliberate. Having played at least a chunk of all 50 games, there are only two or three that I think would have benefitted greatly from more instructions or tutorialization. Figuring out how each game works and being surprised when you find a new way to use the very simple controls is part of the experience.

Based on this post I'm gonna say take it slow with a dual boot or live installation, if at all. You mention a lot of IMO fairly minor and subjective look and feel type criteria that indicate that you'll be quite bothered by minor changes. Using Linux is going to involve major changes. If you're not willing to leave your comfort zone and relearn a few things, might as well stay on Windows.

I'm pretty wary of corporate propaganda, but from the article this sounds like a pretty clear case of some greedy people taking advantage of Valve offering to cover all arbitration costs. Yes, they're doing this to cover their ass, but it's not a malicious move and I don't see how it could be interpreted as anti-consumer.