Aceticon

In my experience the version of Pop!OS with Nvidia support also works out of the box with no hassle.

I suspect the horror stories are from people who had to install the Nvidia support themselves.

I second this.

Also works for things like cheap pieces of beef which normally require long cooking times before you can comfortably eat them.

Also, for variety, there are a lot of kind of beans, plus there's chickpeas and lentils which can be made in the same way.

For even more variety, one can eat beans with rice 😁

As a side note, it's a good investment to buy a pressure cooker at least for the beans since it cuts the cooking time to about 10 minutes (and this is assuming you've soaked the beans for at least 12H).

Pressure cookers will also cut down the cooking time of things that need longer cooking to not be too hard to chew, such as cheap pieces of beef.

Also consider chickpeas along with beans and lentils since you can cook them in the same way and they're the same kind of thing (pulses).

The purpose of online petitions is to provide a means for people to psychologically discharge their righteous anger at something and need to be heard about it, by "doing something", with a "something" which the politicians can safelly ignore.

It's a lot harder to ignore large demonstrations and even harder to ignore people activelly campaigning at the grassroots level in their electoral circles to make specific asshole politicians loose their seats, so best have the ~~plebes~~ citizens discharge their anger on some automated online straight-to-trash People's Will recorder.

I have a cheap ass Xiaomi smartphone (with a clean MIUI install rather than their bloatware-riddled default install) and a typical day of usage seldom eats 14% or more of battery.

(BTW, if it was now that Xiaomi removed bootloader unlocking, I wouldn't buy a phone from them)

I don't think I've ever seen the thing eat more that about 21% battery during a whole day of usage.

I suspect it's a mix of my own usage pattern (for example, mobile data is usually off), having a processor which is on the weak side coupled with modern battery tech so it's lower on consumption whilst the battery has more capacity than older ones, and having a non-bloated version of the OS so there isn't a ton of crap running on the background.

Wow, your entire "argument" is literally nothing more than a collection of Strawmen, False Dichotomy Falacies and McCarthist-style slogans (yeah, sure mate, any critique of anything at all in modern Capitalism must be "Socialism").

Five paragraphs of tribalist muppet kneejerk slogans deployed in defense of the notion that Ideas should be Property, no less.

Only Socialists would want to have published Scientific Papers freely available to all and for there to be archives of published digital works in the day and age of zero cost publishing and distribution on the Internet: the evils of Socialism can only be avoid if for absolutelly everything, somebody somewhere is getting paid.

Exactly.

Not just for code, which is why there are people out there using LLMs as Therapists and just straightforward trusting ChatGPT "answers" as truthfully.

The "great revolution" of AI is an automated ideas salesman, which is why domain experts generally quickly figure out it's output is mostly bullshit when it's stuff from their expert domain, but people who only know a bit about a domain get dazzled by how much the LLM "knows" about it - when people don't know enough about a domain they tend to judge domain knowledge by the way somebody speaks or writes (i.e. as they have very shallow domain knowledge hence can't cross check actual facts, they judge "expertise" based on social and behavioural clues such as he kind of words one chooses or the confidence one shows) and what LLMs shine at is exactly the simulating of a knowledgeable person.

"It's just this once" every time.

Most Europeans outside Britain don't drink that much tea either.

Also coffee in Europe tends to be espressos rather than filter coffee, so more coffee (the actual beans) per unit of water than in the US (which is why you seldom find free-refills coffee in Europe and that only in places serving filter coffee).

You can see how trully Freedom-loving mainstream Liberal parties are, even in Europe, by looking at the domains were Freedom Of Ideas clashes with Ideas As Property such as science publishing: almost all of those "Liberal" mainstream parties side with the Owner Class in expanding and increasing enforcement of the "though shall not share without paying" Intellectual Property laws that let some make money of something they are only able to own due to such laws (those laws are literally anti-natura in that ideas are naturally shared), rather than with the natural freedom of sharing.

The way States support and impose Intellectual Property is really just a facet of the broader societal problem of politics in Capitalist nations (even those disguised as "Democracy") not really working for the many.

Even more important, IMHO, is that it weren't the Germans who rebelled and overthrew the NAZIs, foreigners were the ones who defeated the NAZIs and pushed Germans to change.

A powerful "this is wrong" amongst the German bringing down the NAZIs would have been a reflection of a change of spirit and way of thinking (or the majority even never really having thought like that to begin with), whilst this externally imposed change as consequence of the military defeat at the hands of a cohalition of Western nations followed by an occupation (which didn't last long and didn't really try to integrate Germans into the conquering nation's culture) just means what was changed was that which is visible to outsiders - the appearances, not the spirit.

It's no surprise the fast rise of the AfD in Germany when even parties like the Greens still think along the same "it is right to treat different races differently" lines as in the "old days" and the German political mainstream thinks Surveillance and using Lawmaking and Policing as an iron fist to suppress ideological dissent are appropriate tools to use in a supposed Democracy.