Jesus Fucking Christ.

Y’all, remember when people freaked out over Mozilla changing their TOU (but not their Privacy Policy)? This bill is the pro-corporate, ultracapitalist, “hold my beer” version of that change, and it could be enshrined into law.

If you live in California, call your state reps (i.e. don’t just email or write a letter). Tell them to vote no on this blatant privacy violation.

ETA: this is a bipartisan bill. If you have a Democratic rep, don’t just assume they’ll vote against it. Call them, too!

That is what I meant. An entirely separate system, as you would do with a Windows dual boot.

I absolutely would use a “trusted gaming mode,” even if that meant a separate partition just for those few games that need it.

I’m not familiar enough with the technical aspects of how kernels and bootloaders handle the various launch procedures to ensure they haven’t or aren’t being tampered with, but I think your idea sounds like a good compromise between, “It’s my Linux to modify,” and, “It’s my Linux to use.” There’s not exactly a ton of games that require anti-cheat, so I think giving up a little freedom for those few games (which you would be anyway, due to anti-cheat) with a separate mode/system is justifiable.

Also, spinning up VMs and practicing setting up your programs is a great way to get used to things and know what to expect.

If you want to do UI customization, be sure to look up some videos on how to do it for your chosen Desktop Environment (like Gnome, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, XFCE, etc.).

Trim down power usage…

Don’t plug it in. Use only the abacus.

72% don’t like it, but about half of all voters think voting for the billionaires is the solution, so some fraction of that 72% is 100% idiots.

Brand new account posts sourceless comment that’s eerily similar to propaganda from the War on Drugs.

Citations needed.

A normal Tuesday for a Linux user.

Sure, if that family member is just deaf enough to mishear everything and has the functional intelligence of a cabbage.

Calling him successful is technically true, but it kind of glosses over some very pertinent details of his success. He’s a billionaire, and you don’t get to be a billionaire without doing a lot of monstrous things to good people.

The surprise isn’t whether he’s good looking enough to get a partner. The surprise is over the fact that there’s another human being who thinks that those are qualities worth overlooking, especially one who’s queer, since billionaires like Sam Altman support the current regime that’s wholly against LGBTQ+ folks. And that same person with questionable tastes in partners wanted to take care of another human being with Sam Altman.

I just did it, and even with all the extra setup I’ve had to do (finding a non-browser way to access OneDrive, installing a kernel module due to my Motherboard manufacturer being opaque and unhelpful about a particular chipset, using that module to control fan curves, setting up EQs, etc.), I don’t regret it.

There have been a handful of times I considered going back, but the power to do whatever I want with my system is just too good to give up. I just installed a Gnome extension that let’s me have tiling similar to RiverWM, and just everything I can do that was locked down before is so worth the effort to figure out.

Enjoy getting replaced at that job, you mean. If they’re replacing recruitment, those companies don’t value what humans bring to the table.