Thanks for the write up these are always good to read.

As for convincing people for the first few months on linux its best to not proselytizing to much. Once you understand the pros and cons better then proselytizing is fine. I personally find it most effective to never tell someone they should switch or make them feel bad for not using linux. I just talk about linux positively and my own experiences with it and naturally people are like oh that sounds pretty cool. I usually dont hand hold either if they want to switch I straight up say there will be software you cant run and you will have to learn how to use it. I tell them some of their games wont work and point them to protondb. They are always pleasantly surprised at how many games work. I think the privacy argument is not at all convincing for most people they just dont value it at all. the best argument I’ve found is that Linux is efficient and quick, it gets out of your way and there are cool features that the other operating systems dont have.

I cringe so hard when I see people advertise linux as faster than windows, just works no issue completely easy transition because i know linux and I know something weird will break and shatter the illusion and they will feel extra bad because all they know about linux was that it was a super good just works experience. So I act like there will be minor issues and then they can be surprised if there is none and ready if there are some.

Stop you’re scaring me

Ok I will leave it to you to do what you gotta do to fix it. Bring them in line. You’re in a country with 52 cats right now.

That would be a good place to start

Ok so make it consistent then? Doesnt seem like a problem to me.

I have a 15% vat in my country so I guess im just not used to the US not having a vat. Stupid US stop excluding tax from your prices its insanity

Thats cooked, thats the same as USD

You’re just wrong these are useful metrics not for everyone but for someone. Most companies cant use how much music you listen to but an ad agency can use it to target ads to you. A music company can use it to upsell you. A clothing company can use it to target products at you.

Bowel movements ad agency can target you with supplements, doctors can upsell, etc.

There are some people who think this is an invasion of privacy and some people who see this as an improvement as the products they’re being recommended are more accurate to things they actually want. I fall into the 1st and my sister falls into the 2nd. I thought she was crazy but it seems thats actually the majority opinion.

The steam machine is within the margins of prebuilt costs. Its a bad deal because building a PC right now is just a bad deal. Matching the form factor is the biggest cost destroyer. If you want a small efficient gaming PC you dont get much better than the steam machine but if you’ve got enough space for a big 9060 XT then you arent competing vs the steam machine. Granted this is amazing advertising and got to hand it to them. But steam machine isnt 1039 euro is it wouldnt it be more like 900 euro.

That first image is insane and no lightsaber pic? We were robbed.

Add more panel types and weird customsation. Im really looking forward to the union update where theming gets easier. Hate svg but can manage CSS.

Its done already and will be out in coming update

The camera and software is always complete ass on Chinese phones but the specs are competitive.

Thats a good idea. Does the board take ddr4 ram?

An HDD from 1990 maybe. Modern HDD wouldnt load that slow.

My grandma used to hate tech until she learned to use the voice assistance on her mobile phone. It unlocked the phone for her because she doesnt have the dexterity to type. I hope one day this tool could get to that same point.

Im not sure why its so hard to see why people would be able to relate to posts about other genders. There is a lot of shared commonality. Maybe its just a lack of empathy.

This game is going to print money.

DMC devil may cry. I played it and it was fun. The someone showed me “the real dante” and I was like nah that guy looks cringe I like this Dante better. Then I played DMC 3 and I was like yep this game sucks Compared to DMC DMC. But I saw more from the franchise and I can definitely see why dmc dmc is so hated.

Chinera squad was fun. Xcom 2 felt like being kicked in the balls. Idk maybe I’m just bad but xcom2 felt very unfair.