On the one hand, it's bait.
On the other hand I don't think the country that has formalised slavery and a culture of policing which views it's own citizens as prey really has the right to dictate conversation on race relations.
In no other field would such failure be seen as authority. You wouldn't pick a garage to fix your car because them accidentally destroying the most engines shows they're experts.
Which European country was it that added a loophole to their constitution to allow slavery as punishment then manipulated their legal system to lock a third of black men up again? I forget.
It doesn't have to be a solemn vow. The definition of insurance is that it's a guarantee. If it's denying claims it's technically not even providing insurance.
Linux is actually kinda designed to be less fragmented than windows really.
The reason you don't pick an install directory is because the standard is that binaries live where binaries live, dependencies live where dependencies live, logs live where logs live, etc.
All the user should worry about is where the media or whatever your program works with is.
Always try to find the apt install instructions for whatever program you want, and it's easy to uninstall with apt remove.
Apart from a few deb packages, almost everything that can't be managed via apt should be considered incomplete or experimental. If it was ready for you to just use it without issue, it would be in an apt repository.
It may seem a bit daunting to have to use command line at first, but once you're used to it, you'll realise how absolutely broken and archaic managing software on windows is. (Like seriously, it's 2024 and you're still having to fish through slow or sketchy websites to find installers for tools and drivers.)
A very silly but useful hack I did to get the MS flight sim install down to about 40GB (normally ~270GB) before I gave up on windows was this.
Set up a nextcloud server on a raspberry pi.
Install the client on your windows machine.
Add your games install folder as a connection on the nextcloud client and enable VFS (virtual filesystem)
Once synced, right click the folder and select "free up space..."
This will basically delete the file data from your local machine and redownload it whenever windows tries to access a file.
Now launch your game and it'll take a while to start as it has to redownload the files it actually needs to run, but it won't bother getting what it doesn't have to.
I prefer an oversized black hoodie and a spotlight positioned to only reveal my chin
I hate how everything has to be stupid culture war nonsense these days.
I'll probably get the game but be disappointed I don't get to play as Geralt.
I'd also be disappointed to get a new Horizon game where I don't get to play as Aloy. Does that make me a misandrist?
I live in a pretty diverse area and everyone loves talking about where they're from. It's like a universal ice breaker that can start an engaging conversation with people you otherwise have nothing in common with. Honestly if someone asks where you're from there's a far greater chance they're trying to get off with you than fine tune their racism.
I don't think it's possible to have a Lemmy UI without JS because it serves up JSON not rendered pages. You could sign up on a kbin/mbin instance though to get a static frontend.
I'm all for scamming scammers, but I'm quite happy to give a tip to YouTubers I watch by way of e-commerce commissions.