Isn’t TPM a fake requirement anyway? I’m pretty sure you can just lie that you have a TPM and it’ll update and work fine, so that may not stop them.

I cannot make my Windows 10 PC not forcibly update, reboot, and close all my shit without saving it. Every fucking month. Sometimes I’ll find a way to disable it, then they’ll push some weird telemetry thing and re-enables it a month later. One time Windows refused to acknowledge my generic drivers without re-enabling updates, so I had to do it to plug in my fucking mouse.

It’s actually the most annoying piece of shit ‘feature’ I’ve ever suffered on Windows. Neither 7 nor XP did that shit.

I’ve dual booted for 8 years now. It’s very handy for me, but it is not without its complications - The main one being Microsoft’s illegal anticompetitive behaviour by making Windows regularly overwrite the boot entries, so I have to force a legacy boot to Linux so it can recreate its own entries.

The second one being that Microsoft doesn’t abide by its own official NTFS specification, and will mark drives dirty when it shouldn’t, forcing Linux to be careful and mark the drive as read-only unless you force it or boot back and make Microsoft re-unmark it.

If you want a Windows-y theme, I’d point to Plasma/KDE for your desktop type. Plenty of themes around too.

Honestly I’ve not had an issue with hardware drivers on Linux for a long time, that issue is largely historical. Except for nvidia graphics cards, which may prove a bit finicky depending on the model. Hardware which is very recent may take a while if they don’t release official linux drivers.

As for software, obviously just check if your software has a Linux binary, if it does they’re generally all-distro supporting these days.

A lot of games are Linux native now, but for other Games on Steam with Proton (or the more complex effort of running software in WINE), they have appDBs that list compatibility here: https://appdb.winehq.org/ and here: https://www.protondb.com/

I didn’t know what Recall was, I googled and these 1.5 sentences were enough

I very much agree with the sentiment, and have been considering my own effortposting about it. The doomerism here is unbearable at times, and content is frequently actually warped just to seem worse than it is for the sake of having something to be angry at. Even when I make positive posts the top comment will immediately “but actually it’s bad because X”.

I don’t think the US is interested in a more total global war than it’s already engaged in. Conflating all others into a single dehumanized enemy just means the US can kill whomever it likes whenever it likes, and that’s not really a new concept for the country.

I’d argue it’s laughable and sad that some people on this site really think these people are entirely unable to get tired and traumatized by the genocide. We know that even the worst of the worst of WW2 Nazis couldn’t face gunning down their victims en masse, it’ll be little better for the IOF.

Does it mean they’re good people who will protest genocide tomorrow? No. But it does mean they’re humans who will only physically take so much of doing it. Just because they’re a genocidal force that must be stopped doesn’t mean we need to deny they have innately human traits.

seeing the absolutely vile atrocities

I can see it giving me nightmares, PTSD, etc. But personally, this really would strengthen my resolve to keep going, the knowledge that these atrocities are out there and we can stop it by continuing to march, that’s a good reason.

All said, it’d still be a heavy burden on the mind, which can leave one acting irrationally after too long.

There has always been many-fold the number of homeless people compared to empty homes in America. It hovers around 10 empty homes / person who needs a home.

Most efficient system apparently

If I understand this right, you’re looking for Continuous Collision Detection

i.e. rather than calculating collision by looking at the intersection of objects in every frame, instead calculate collision by drawing out the path the object will go, and looking for collision along it.

By my estimation, it would only take a single wind turbine 130km in diameter to generate an average 3TW to supply all electricity in the whole world. How long 'til we get a turbine that big?

So the same person competing was prepping the conkers, including those for his competitors? That seems just poorly thought through from the start.

Then don’t post about it, yourself?? It was very deliberately a conversation-terminator, I’m not interested in a conversation about it.

I agree with not being fully comfortable about that kind of distinction. I don’t think we should let people be as shitbags, but I also don’t understand why a person in a prominent position needs to not have bad opinions on irrelevant topics.

I kept vague because I’m not really eager to get into any arguments over specific details. I obviously could be wrong.

I’m not saying he deserves “a pass” (whatever that entails), I’m not defending his character. I just don’t really think his dumb opinions are relevant to his professional work.

I’ll refrain from making any solid claims; There are clearly some actual examples of concerning behaviour and trash opinions from the guy, but in honesty, this report reads to me a hit piece rather than investigative journalism. It makes some seemingly objectively false claims, and some other claims I’d be interesting in hearing more on.

Stallman has done a lot of good work, and it sounds like he really should shut his yap about non FSF-business more than anything (which the paper does call for).

So you’re taking the best aspects of any fork you can find? Trust in the developers is an essential part of the question.

If a piece of software passes every audit in the whole world, but is developed and maintained by the NSA, you’d be stupid to leave your data with it.

Let me save you a lot of time and effort:

• No, it isn’t.

Your findings will either be an incredibly lengthy wording of that, or they will simply be wrong. It’s not a complex question.

Help me, my parasitical suck fund company is only paying me 10x the average wage instead of 20x. This is oppression

Firefox has long been going this way. I started exploring alternatives some years back, when Firefox started serving me ads on desktop, tracking me for marketing purposes on mobile, and talking about the “importance of collaboration with the private sector”. This is really just a natural progression from there.

It’s still the best browser (rock the LibreWolf branch), but it’s, ever more, just the best of a bad bunch.

Lynx is actually amazing, and makes a lot of sites surprisingly browsable for a CLI interface.