CuriousGoo

I got the joke, my response was in extension to it :)

Reading this, I’m not able to interpret what emotion applies here.

Is this supposed to be a colourful e-ink display?

Is the Asus Zenfone available in your region ? If yes, its a pretty compact and feature rich phone.

Like many people of the Lemmy-verse, I know how to drive a manual (can’t say I am best, or better than average even).

Cannot afford to own a car in this economy. Have a geared motorcycle tho.

Where in South India was this ?

Yep, it ran for a whole season.

Edit: I don’t remember which season it was on, it was a couple of seasons ago. Probably just after the Ben Swolo thing became popular.

The entire joke that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ran about this was fantastic.

They did figure out having 1 service for watching a huge library of movies/TV with a Netflix. But they have started imploding because of corporate greed, which is bringing back piracy by the masses.

I was gonna write about the fascist aspects of the country, but I wouldn’t say that it’s something completely unknown; many of my peers are okay with fascism just because there is no centerist alternative, as what we have already seen leftists are not going to be better given the same amount of power.

When it comes to religion, it should have been a personal thing rather than systematically integrating it with each aspect of our lives like how it was initially intended.

Sometime earlier in my life I took a decision of not going to my place of worship; this helped decouple my belief in something bigger that I don’t understand, and a cult made by man.

Warez piracy is anyway not “stealing” since you’re not taking the digital item away, tis something which can be infinitely copied.

No problem mate !

Once you’re on Mint’s page, just have a look over the other desktop environments (DE) offered. Screenshots will not tell you the entire picture, but at least you can have a look at what you don’t find appealing.

But remember not to really worry about the DE, you can always install another one and remove the one you don’t like.

Like Adobe / Microsoft / Google / Meta / … maybe most large enterprises ? No question about it.

That is the case with me as well for Netflix, I just use it to browse anything interesting, and then proceed to pirate it.

Disney+ has got such shoddy servers in my country that I am having to deal with pixelated content or poor audio or both even on such high broadband speeds and only my devices on the network… and it gives ads (banners, before the start of a video, in between videos, the entire 9 yards of ad integration) even tho it’s a paid account.

Mainly from a security standpoint PPAs are something I would want to avoid.

I’ve not used Snap since I tried it out a couple of years ago, it wasn’t as good as Flatpak in terms of performance, and there were concerns which got highlighted like it’s entirely proprietary and hosted by Canonical only, I heard Snap was being forced even when you would want through system packages, and something about forced updates.

I get why Flatpak is better in terms of sandboxing each application, but I personally prefer to use system packages wherever I can.

I just moved from Windows to Linux (currently, PopOS) this year around.

You can try out beginner friendly distributions like PopOS, Linux Mint, ZorinOS which are Ubuntu-Debian based or Fedora. Like others have mentioned, applications made on Linux are expected to be cross-compatible with all distributions so your choice will mainly come down to what desktop environment you like as there are many with different feel to the user experience.

To know what works for you try these out in a VM if possible before biting the bullet so you know what all packages are present in Linux, and what all of your usecase will need to be managed through WINE/Proton compatibility layers.

You would want to avoid Ubuntu, and installing anything through Snap or PPA repositories if it ever comes up in your searches.

Other people have given you recommendations, I want to give you my commendation on the first time I have heard someone describe easy to play games in this manner.

I reckon you would have aced my school’s internal exams back in the day where they were more concerned with the size of the content.

This didn’t tickle my fancy, but I can see why the videos are popular.

.7z is supported by most popular applications, and offers better compression than a .zip or .rar in my experience.

Unless you’re saying normally people rely on Windows Explorer for their (de)compression needs ? (⁠･⁠o⁠･⁠;⁠)

You could add Summoning Salt to this list. I’m not really otherwise interested in world record attempts, but something about his narration is so good.

Another fun addition could be Oversimplified.