That's a good point. Outside of Dell with their XPS line, I'm not sure any major manufacturer ships Linux by default. There's only boutique Linux specialists like System 76.
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Yep, you hit the nail on the head. I just want companies to stop lying about how "sensitive and enlightened" they are, and just stay out of it. I know they're just grifting too, just like they are with greenwashing and everything else they're pretending to do. I don't have the time and energy to keep up with who's doing what and then try to selectively boycott this or that when I'm just trying to make sure inflation doesn't eat my budget alive.
It's very rare that a company is actually ethical anyway, like gravity payments or the north face.
Yeah, I know the feeling. I had to wait for about 30 minutes for a haircut and didn't have much on my phone to look at. I was in the middle of this Blue Archive video when I got called up. Just finished it now:
That's pretty suck, but the worse news for me (and Fallout fans in general) is that it means that Fallout 5 is probably over a decade away. I really wish Microsoft would just tell them to hand over the Fallout 4 engine to Obsidian so they can make a Fallout New Vegas 2 or something.
Maybe finally implement the ability to not play a human, and possibly be some kind of ghoul, Super Mutant, or talking Deathclaw or whatever. I heard that they've tried in the past, but couldn't quite make it work.
If everyone's "mad at you for no reason" all the time everywhere you go, there probably is a reason, it's just that you don't know it, and they're not doing their job by explaining it. It's particularly bad if they act like you should be psychic and have a perfect childhood with communicative parents that teach you everything and no learning disabilities and should've known already. And then assume that all of that is true and that you're just being offensive on purpose, so they just get upset at you without asking questions or giving you a chance to explain.
That said, if instead of trying to figure it out, you just switch to being annoying purpose all the time forever, then you end up being a total sociopath no different than Musk, Spez, or Zuck. They probably had people be mean to them too.
Edit: Shit, I just remembered that Musk said in an interview that people used to chase him around in groups trying to beat him up for no reason. It sounds reasonable because I've had that happen to me as well, and also happen to others for really dumb reasons like having a speech impediment or really bad allergies. That said: looks at how Musk is now...
Yep. I used to think that I didn't need to download and back up stuff because "I just need to pop on over to Youtube or something and it'll be there!" only to find out the hard way that people delist and take down stuff from places all the time, including major corporations.
I wish I'd downloaded and backed up some of my favorite stuff back in the day. Whether it's videos, music, games... it's surprising how much crap gets taken down. I never thought that people who insisted on having physical copies were weird (unlike some others) but now I realize even more nowadays that they were right. Especially if they use those physical copies to make their own digital backups.
What would happen if someone changed their real name to Beefsteakcowboy? I'm actually genuinely curious. I think some of the malicious compliance types actually would, to be honest.
inb4 "Does anyone else think that the teacher in The Magic Schoolbus is pretty cute?"
also: "Hey, it's Ms. Frizzle, not Mrs. so she's siiingle."
As someone who is good at memorization (although not as much post COVID) but has been historically poor at critical thinking, I agree. People kept telling me I was "smart" and that there was no way I could fail X or should fail X, but life experience and slow but steady analysis showed me that no, everyone (including my parents and teachers) were wrong. I was dumb as bricks, I'm just good at memorizing things.
I'm aware that my critical thinking skills aren't great. I'm also aware that I had no business going to college (and failing of course) studying what I did (computer science) and that it's actually very good and liberating to admit how fallible you are, and how bad you are at things, because it gives you the freedom and insight to know what you can do instead of what you can't.
I've lived long enough to see stupid people succeed at what "smart" people fail at, just because they're honest enough and humble enough to admit when they can't do something, and also when they're wrong. I saw that doing something right imperfectly (but effectively) is more useful than doing something wrong with perfect execution. It's the difference between going forward at a walk, and going backwards with a rocket thruster.
Actually, you're right, and I think that lowered populations are a good thing. World needs quality people, not just quantity. A world filled with a smaller amount of environmentally conscious and responsible people is better than a world filled with a large amount of meat eating, gas guzzler driving jackasses that spend all their time being racist, while overconsuming everything and yelling and shooting at anyone who even suggests that maybe they should cut down on consumption.
Immigrants help out in the short term, but then they and their children realize the same thing that people who already live here do: that wages are too low, and that rent and cost of living is too high to support children.
Plus, corporations can use those immigrants to bust unions and keep wages down and rent prices up. Supply and demand, because we live in an oligrarchic dystopia that doesn't have enough social safety nets to make sure that new workers coming in don't sabotage the ones currently working.
I'm the children of immigrants and hang around with the children of other immigrants, and we're not having children ourselves, or ware waiting until increasingly later ages (minimum 30) because of how expensive it is to live, even without children. It only takes 1 generation to realize that new immigrants will just get stuck in the same rut that non-immigrants are already in.
Adding more people just increases the power of corporations (the real government) to treat workers as disposable objects. It's probably why corporate run governments don't try to stabilize unstable regions, but rather prefer to exploit them until there's a mass migration. More people to use for dangerous labor = more expendables that no one can afford to care about.
Yeah, I feel you. I used to like more punishing combat when I was younger, but now I just want to finish games and not have to restart fights constantly. I don't have the reflexes I used to when I was less old, and to be honest, my reflexes were bad even when I was young, just less bad than they are now.