That just means that those who care about humanity should never ever stop or ease the diplomatic pressure. Show him what it means to be an actual leader, not a despot.

And these are the leading theories. Now let’s see the crackpot ones!

Not to dogpile on you (I am a fellow grammar-enjoyer), but on either side of “god forbid” you used hyphens—with spaces—in the place of em dashes 🙂

I wish more people were as passionate about language as you seem to be.

And the usage of “you people” feels intentionally pointed. Insulting to everyone’s intelligence/sense of empathy.

Then they go on to claim that they’ll make sure mass shootings won’t be tolerated in this country. Well where the fuck has this person been for the past few decades?

Technically it was never released, but I was invited to a closed alpha (or beta?) for a game called Chroma, by Harmonix, the OG Guitar Hero people. It was a lot of fun and I’m still sad that it was canceled…

Welcome to Lemmy! It’s much, much slower here, but a lot of people (myself included) see that as a plus.

Please don’t be discouraged if your niche hobby isn’t represented here. I’m not one to talk, but if the community for it doesn’t exist, go ahead and create it! 😁

So what would happen if the user upvotes something benign and then the OP edits their post to something violent?

I haven’t seen anyone else ask, but I have to know: what’s your Linux distro of choice?

I kind of agree with @doppelgangmember but yeah, Bethesda has taken a very apathetic approach to fixing bugs, or even preventing them in the first place. They used the godawful Gamebryo engine for way too long, and their Creation Engine is apparently based on it. Of course they’re on CE2 now, but I have little to no faith that they’ve made any substantial improvements since people will buy their products no matter what.

To be fair, I really enjoy almost all of Bethesda’s games, which is why I’m so disappointed that they just don’t (seem to) care. I’m definitely waiting for a super duper sale before picking up the game.

I didn’t mean to make it seem like I had any opinion either way, just that it has received some hate over the years. I did some research - admittedly it was cursory - and it looks like the issues are somewhat exaggerated.

Canonical, it seems, has made a number of poor decisions but apparently they pay attention to user complaints and revert / make adjustments accordingly. Some of the controversial things I saw were related to the Snap package manager, possible telemetry, bloatware, and some partnership with Amazon.

Some of those things were either nothingburgers or simply overblown (one person said the only thing they could see as bloatware was… a few board games), so I would take their anecdotes with a grain of salt.

Again, I’m a relative idiot when it comes to Linux, but my takeaway is that Ubuntu suffers from the typical growing pains / compromises that a relatively popular OS will inevitably encounter. Especially when most of the Linux userbase consists of power users who prefer having complete control (which is perfectly fair too!)

Use whatever distro fits your needs; as long as you ditch Microsoft, you’re making a good choice :)

I’m holding onto hope actually. I recently started dual-bootung into Mint and the installation process was a breeze. The only thing I could imagine a “typical” user finding difficult is setting up the flash drive for booting/installation. The UI is nice and familiar too. As a Linux newbie I hear that Mint is basically Ubuntu, and that (modern) Ubuntu is hot garbage, but even if it caused my computer to take an actual shit on the floor, it still beats Windows by a country mile.

I think (perhaps too optimistically) that with some more awareness we could see a fairly sizeable migration.

IIRC Reagan had Alzheimer’s while in office and his staff tried desperately to hide it. Unfortunately, this shit ain’t new.

Did you say… “free hat”?

For what it’s worth, you have this stranger’s full support. It’s extremely important to exercise your voice when dealing with bullshit like what YouTube is doing, and it saddens me to see so many people complain about YT / Netflix / whoever else walking all over them, while folding like wet paper and handing over their money.

I understand that people with families can’t just tell their kids why they can’t enjoy the same shows their friends do… But even some of my single friends who pirate some things will still happily bend over for, say, Disney+.

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for sticking to your guns and actually treating YT like the pile of garbage it’s becoming. I’ll be right there with you if the ads become unavoidable, even if abandoning it is an extremely difficult long-term exercise. I left reddit in the rearview and YT will be no different.

Miata is always the answer!

I don’t keep up with Uber news, but do they still not consider their drivers to be actual employees, but rather 1099 workers? Either way that company can go to hell.

Lyft too if they have the same attitude.

Fucking amen. It sucks but it’s a fact of life. LW is covering their asses like any of us would

Sounds like I should err on the side of caution then. Thanks for the in-depth explanation. I think I’ll either buy a new SSD for my desktop and boot from that, or get a cheap(er) laptop and go full Linux. I love this laptop as it is - despite it running Windows - and I really don’t want to rock the boat hardware-wise.

Thanks again!