Except, you know, most of human history. Can’t overthrow an evil regime if there isn’t one.

And that access comes with a cost higher than food and prevents millions from accessing food in the future.

If they can’t afford food they can sell their gaming computer they’re using for a local model. Or they can pick up real art as it’s a cheaper hobby than AI art.

I can guarantee you can buy art for less than food if you really want to.

But your problem isn’t with elitism, it’s with capitalism that prevented you from learning a basic human skill.

Acting like a liberal is of course included in liberal ideology.

Anyone can be cured of liberalism before it decays into fascism. They’re hoping you get cured.

Political correctness is what racists think being woke is, which is why they’re angry.

MS Office runs just fine, libre office is also fine for the vast majority of use cases, and of course you can play call of duty. The only thing kernel level anticheat does is make the installation of a game take longer with a few more steps; and most companies are realizing that given the demand from the steam deck.

…why did the single most transformative event in terms of working from home on non work supplied devices change how companies deploy apps?

That obvious question and answer aside, everything has been moving from installed apps to web apps over the last decade. Office365 was the nail in the coffin for traditionally deployed applications, as now businesses didn’t need to update a hundred thousand deployments, just have them login in like they have always done. Not to mention web apps also tend to work on phones and tablets without any addition development work or training.

Have you just been out of it for the last decade or what? Have you just been out of a job for that entire time? Especially with how we assembly has been developed there are exceedingly few cases where you need to have anything but a browser installed for work. I’ve been with three companies in the last 5 years. The only system requirements was a chrome browser and fast enough hard lines internet. Two of those companies were fortune 100, so its not like this is just happening with startups using SaaS providers to cut down on costs.

What decade did you step out of? These arguments stopped being true last decade. None of these arguments have been even slightly true since the pandemic.

Not really. Most people under 25 grew up on Chromebooks, not windows. Most people over 25 that aren’t tech savvy have been systematically moved to exclusively use web apps for whatever thing they’re doing. And based on browser numbers they can recognize a chrome logo to click on.

Anyone even slightly tech savvy, and I’m including people that use a computer for anything other than web based apps as tech savvy, has heard of Linux and can figure out what pretty icon to click on.

This isn’t 1994, Ubuntu was made for the iPhone generation, windows 11 was made for the iPhone generation. They’re both babby mode oses for people that think google is a program.

Let’s not have tpm at all instead.

You’re really underestimating how similar windows 11 and Ubuntu are for average end users

The effect isn’t the important part.

If I smash a thousand orphan skulls against a house and wet it, it’ll have the same effect as a decent limewash. But people might have a problem with the sourcing of the orphan skulls.

It doesn’t matter if you’we just a wittle guwy that collects the dust from the big corporate orphan skull crusher and just add a few skulls of your own, or you are the big corporate skull crusher. Both are bad people despite producing the same result as a painter that sources normal limewash made out of limestone.

X11 absolutely didn’t just work, hence Wayland’s entire existence and rapid adoption once it was mature enough to function. Xorg’s decades old cobbled together code base of awkward fixes for obscure issues and random contributions that had to be repeatedly fixed in every other patch is infamous as an example of how not to do FOSS software over time, and serves as a fatal warning to all open source projects.

Wayland has issues, and those issues are being fixed. Slow updating distros, as always, suffer the most with new software and paradigms. But whining about it hardly helps. This is foss land, contribute or report, never complain.

Summer sausages are indeed delicious sausages, but without cheese or butter available it might be a bit too sausage-y. Then again it does have lube as a condiment so it might’ve been fine.

If you add the word fuck to your searches the ai goes away.

You have another 27 years until retirement for most western countries. That’s enough time to get a teaching degree and earn a pension in most places.

You still have a full ass life to go.

…leading some of the most disastrous dea and fbi raids in US history is good domestic policy?

He was a boring ‘good’, president if you were upper middle class or higher in a fairly conservative job and a white male. That’s about it. Those were the people that could tune out.

There actually are super cheap evs at the no frills used car market price, they’re just illegal to import in the us due to protectionist policies.