In a world where the Great Firewall and the Five Eyes exist? Sure buddy

I am actually glad I started my photography experience in film. Really taught me to think about framing and timing before hitting the shutter

We know. But the point is no one is coming to save you, and things aren’t going to get better on their own.

Sucks, but well handled.

Not until you, the people, make it happen

You mean a full time wage?

Yeah, in some countries you can buy SIM cards at 7-11. In others you need to submit your ID, connect your bank account etc

Corvid supremacy! They’ll be the first to operate ancient human technology no doubt

Being critical of the government vs oppressing criticism by calling it hate

Yeah I think I know what side I’m on

There is one, the interrobang: ‽

But personally I don’t like this glyph, it doesn’t really work outside of sarcastic questions imo.

Man, there’s some lore behind Nvidia support in Linux. Short of it: Nvidia are assholes, they pretty much could give Linux users an on-par experience to Windows, but don’t want to. Things have been generally improving in the last 5 years or so I would say though. CUDA and PCI Passthrough also usually work, so getting a cheap Intel Arc to draw your DE and using your Nvidia for heavy lifting is a relatively cheap and ‘drop-in’ fix to your workflow.

Linux focused companies like Microsoft

my sides

Being a contributor to an open-source project is not the same as actually owning a “commercial” product. They can voice opinions in the mailing lists, but they don’t have direct influence. Sure, some maintainers work for those companies, but I would say that’s hardly the same. It’s sponsorship, and it’s welcome pretty much no matter where it comes from in my view.

If those companies disappeared overnight, Linux would be fine. Development would be a lot slower, sure, but it wouldn’t implode and instantly become worthless like macOS or Windows

External drives are more prone to damage and failures, both because they’re more likely to be dropped/bumped/spilled on etc, and because of generally cheaper construction compared to internal drives. In the case of SSDs the difference might be negligible, but I suggest you at least make a copy on another “cold” external drive if the data is actually important

I’ll bite. How? It’s open source software championed by a Finnish academic professor.

You can do almost anything given enough time and a Turing machine ;)

The kind that can decode high resolution, high bitrate video in real time

Nonsense has been a staple of the internet since forever

Empiricist is a very solid take tbf

I live in a place where many shops are closed on Sundays and have reduced hours on Saturdays. The place where I was born is everything open all the time. It’s a cultural thing, also very dependent on how consumerist the country is

Outside of hospitality? Is it that bad in the service industries too?