I think the Titanic could use a few more wealthy visitors.

I somewhat get it. I used Mint ages ago on a laptop I had. It was fine. Two years ago I decided to see if I could use Linux full time in my desktop, and I installed Ubuntu. It was fine. Windows decided to fuck things up and I never fully recovered the system, and decided to cut Windows out and start fresh, and I installed Fedora, and it was fine. I fucked that up somewhat while messing around and learning and heard about Garuda and tried that. I love it!

I could have lived with any of the previous distros I tried. They did the job fine, and I didn’t think much of it. Garuda seems perfect for me though. Being Arch based is great, but it started with most of what I needed so it wasn’t the typical Arch install process (though I hear that’s better now than is memed). For someone comfortable with their computer skills, I think it’s the perfect option for gamers coming to Linux. I probably wouldn’t recommend it for someone coming from Windows who never learned computer skills, but anyone who edited registries should be able to handle it just fine.

Yeah, it’s like all the good parts of the Windows UI (whichever version you like best) without the bad parts, and also customizable so you can make it work best for you, and not what some corporation decides is best this year.

I’m curious why you chose Bazzite then? I’m not saying it’s the wrong choice, but it does seem like a strange choice if you’re comfortable, well unless this is for a console-like computer, not a desktop.

If you do then you already know that. The recommendation is still good, and I’m hoping you agree, but sometimes it doesn’t work. Cool. We don’t need to hear that every time. We know.

Yep, and the more people do this then the more likely it will be that games support Linux (or are at least tested to work with WINE/Proton.

Heroic I find is great for offline installers. I actually prefer it to Lutris I think. You set up your application and it creates a prefix. Before selecting the executable you press the “run installer first” button and it runs the installer on the prefix. Once it’s done you select the executable and it’s set up and good to go.

The Lutris method, IIRC, is you create the prefix, select the installer to run, then you modify that to target the new executable after. It’s not difficult, but the Heroic experience is slightly more streamlined I think.

Maybe they don’t expect that to be a possibility…

Because those don’t make good nicknames. He’s not calling the act “father bad touch.” He’s saying his name is “father bad touch.”

I agree with your opinion, but I don’t see any of that in the comment above. What specifically are you talking about? I’m guessing “father bad-touch”, but that seems like a perfect euphemism for a father who does bad things to their child but hasn’t been held accountable yet.

I’ve lived along a lot of the east coast, south of DC. Yeah, that’s southern mostly, but I would say fried fish is not only a southern thing. Hell, it’s a British thing too. Fried chicken, and everything else, is southern, but I’ve seen fried fish all over, wherever fish is common.

I don’t know if I’d call it the American style, but it’s common. The issue is America is a bunch of states. It’s like if you tried to combine all the states in the EU to one style.

I think fried is becoming less common in the US though. It definitely isn’t my preference, and I think that’s increasingly true as time goes on.

IIRC there’s also generics that are significantly cheaper. They don’t have the same applicator though, so insurance usually doesn’t cover them.

Yeah, it keeps you breathing until you can get help hopefully. I don’t have allergies, though my dad does and carries and epi pen, but I don’t think I’d trust my body to just get over it by the time the epinephrine wears off.

Yeah, the common phrase used by people joining is they joined “to protect your freedom.” If it turns out that the actual threat to our freedom is at home, are they still willing to fight?

(I know, the vast majority of enlistees didn’t join for this reason. They joined to get out of a bad situation. It’s a job with fairly good pay and fantastic benefits.)

If you are able to get food with less work than your cat then I’m either jealous of your life or worried about your cat.

I think you’re taking this too literally. It’s a good representation of the words and their meanings. Obviously it does not accurately portray a baseball game. It’s not trying to. It’s an analogy.

It should be something easy to see. Part of the advantage of cutting off someone’s hand isn’t just the punishment, it’s a marker that a person is a thief that they can’t get rid of. Ideally it’d be something obvious and easy to see, that’s also uncommon enough naturally that you know what happened.

I have a personal conspiracy theory that part of the AI hype is pushed by dirty energy companies. Most American politicians say we can’t remove dirty energy plants until we have enough clean energy to replace them. AI (and some other technologies) increase energy demand in a way that counters any clean energy production being built, such that the dirty energy production will always be needed unless we’re willing to shut some things down.

Politicians say we can’t scale down production below demand, so dirty energy companies benefit most from inflating demand instead of shutting down and being replaced with clean alternatives.

The issues come if you know how they’re faking them. Sure, SSR can look good sometimes, but if you know what it is it becomes really obvious. Meanwhile raytraced reflections can look great always, with the cost of performance usually. It’s sometimes worth it, especially when done intelligently.

Lol. You’re following me around now to insult me? And you called me a neckbeard…