Hey, don’t blame us for Murdoch. He’s Australian, he only bought US citizenship in his fifties in order to spread his hate better.

… Saying that becoming American helped with that doesn’t really strengthen my case here, does it?

It also helps that the Steam Deck has introduced a bunch of people to Linux and shown that it’s not so scary or user-unfriendly these days, plus Valve’s extensive investments into WINE/Proton (software that allows you to run Windows programs and games on Linux) mean that for the first time, running Linux doesn’t mean limiting your library of usable apps.

At this point Linux actually runs many games better than Windows due to lower overhead, and most things will run without issue so long as they don’t rely on kernel-level rootkits for anti-cheat or DRM (and kernel access is being restricted in future Windows updates after that whole CloudStrike fiasco, so that will likely stop being an issue either way as programs move away from using it).

This is the top-voted answer, but it’s missing one key point: Windows 11 mandates a TPM chip, a secure cryptographic processor that (amongst other things, both good and bad) allows an OS to verify that its boot files haven’t been tampered with.

A lot of old computers don’t have this chip, making this the first Windows edition in many years where the upgrade process isn’t smooth and painless. If you don’t have this chip you straight-up can’t install Windows 11 on that machine without using hacks or workarounds, workarounds that Microsoft have been actively patching out to prevent TPM-less installs.

Rather than throw away their still perfectly fine computers to buy a new machine they don’t need - for a dubious “upgrade” they don’t even want - a lot of users are choosing to switch to Linux so they can keep their current PCs while still enjoying software and security updates.

The cuccos are going cuckoo!

Whatever the case, just make sure you keep your catma inside so it doesn’t get run over by your karma.

“Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”

• Al Franken

The problem with using salt water isn’t salt buildup, it’s that it’s corrosive and will drastically shorten the lifespan of any equipment exposed to it.

Is this just cope because he really wants to drop a nuke but his handlers won’t let him?

Plus since the proceedings were guaranteed to fail (even setting aside the party votes, while Trump has committed many constitutional violations, this one is shared by several of his predecessors and was an especially stupid thing to hinge an impeachment vote on - doubly so because it’s not technically a violation until 60 days have passed), all they’d accomplish is burning a substantial amount of political will (something the Democratic party is severely lacking in) to… accomplish nothing but making Donald even worse? He already attacks Democratic states that have shown relatively minor opposition; if their representatives supported impeachment then life could suddenly become a lot harder for their constituents. Unless you’re an accelerationist it was a bad idea all around.

(I should note I don’t support this rationale - cowardly appeasement has never worked - but I can understand it, at least in theory. I’m mostly pissed that they pulled this stunt on such a flimsy pretext when there were plenty of rock-solid justifications to base an impeachment on)

ReVanced (a patched version of the official app) is straight up better than Premium because it can get rid of all the crap corporate insists on shoving into customers’ faces. My YouTube app has a subscriptions tab (that only shows videos, not shorts or random “informative” carousels) and my profile tab with all my playlists, and nothing else.

It’s glorious in its simplicity. Why would I ever pay Google for a worse product?

Oh of course, but I doubt anyone else on the list rivals him in quantity.

It turns out conservatives are offended by sex, not sexual assault. They’re historically pretty okay with that one.

Though Henry Kissinger is pulling a “Spiders Georg” and really skewing the numbers there.

As an incentive to get Trump to aid them. He’s entirely ego-driven.

Speaking for myself, I’m too paranoid to buy a used book from some random charity because I can’t trust they ensure the books are clean before selling them.

My family brought home a bundle of music books from some charity event when I was a kid, and it unleashed an infestation of silverfish that proved impossible to get rid of. It’s been more than twenty years and they still pop up on my parent’s walls every few months.

Edit: to be clear, I’m not blaming the charities for this. Some people use donation bins as an excuse to offload literal biohazards - just ask a Goodwill volunteer how often they receive soiled clothing. Books are simply harder to check than many other goods due to the literal hundreds of hiding spots between the pages and in the bindings.

Okay then, the labyrinthine structure spontaneously generates tiny minotaurs, which then consume the disease-causing miasma.

In Starsector markets have infinite money, but the per-unit price actively drops the more of a good you offer. Combined with sky-high taxes if you’re not selling on the black market (which has its own gotchas), this makes it impractical to earn a profit off of hoarding a single good. You’re expected to watch the intel feed for market shortages and take advantage of their desperation if you want to make it as a bulk trader. Or be a little sneaky and create a shortage yourself.

It’s one of only a few games where trading requires more than finding a good route and traveling back and forth. It’s surprisingly fleshed out for a title that’s mostly focused on combat.

Metal Gear Solid had a weird halfway version of this: you would automatically eat a ration and heal when taking a fatal hit, but only if it was equipped in the active item slot. It was always fun to get an unexpected game over because you forgot to swap items back before a boss battle.

Except those imports were used by a huge section of code you temporarily commented out, and now you’ll need to manually select a dozen imports to get it working again when you come back to it.

(Sure you could have just commented out the unused imports, but the linter auto-sorted them and you’re feeling too lazy to copy-paste a dozen scattered lines)

Bric hard indeed.