Makes perfect sense. It’s like having $999,999,999.99 in a management game.

It doesn’t go above that, but if you buy a ton of assets and set them down, it’ll probably climb right back up there to the limit again at some point.

You still have a billion bucks to do whatever with.

Although yeah, businesses routinely buy things for billions (like acquiring Minecraft? Hah) So they’d find some clever way of putting it all in some kind of “company trust” or something, so they don’t have it as an individual.

But I’m no lawyer. I still think having it on the books would be better than not, if it went to healthcare and education instead of funneling into the defense industry, that is…

By 2028 this may be possible idk.

So they leave two quarters and a nickel.

Source: was a waiter.

Ah look at the cute little Viewsonic birds on the upper left. :D

“Scary how hackers are always using DOS prompts isn’t it?”

–Confused Windows Viewers

Rocking Tumbleweed too!

• On Nvidia!
• With multiple displays at different refresh rates.
• On Wayland!

Right now they only update to the “stable” Nvidia drivers branch in the repos, so I had to install the 565.71 drivers manually via the run file from Nvidia’s website to fix an issue with variable sync. (Windows without Wayland support would strobe solid black randomly. Yikes!)

The only annoyance is having to reinstall the driver from terminal any time the kernel updates. (Protip: just make a drivers folder in your /home folder to easily get to it from the terminal.)

This is referred to as “the hard way”, but once you get it set up once it’s really just ls /drivers/nvidia, run it, and then enter -> enter -> enter -> enter -> reboot -> enjoy.

Otherwise, between Steam, Heroic Launcher (for GoG), Lutris (for EA), and Bottles (everything else / standalone games, disc games, etc), I can play pretty much anything I want! and it runs gloriously! (Be sure to get ProtonUp-Qt to get better Proton versions)

I primarily spend most of my time in Blender, but games work beautifully. Plasma 6 is just awesome as well. My win10 install is getting so dusty right now, and I actually made the jump because it kept Bluescreening on Vermintide 2, and refused to “refresh this system” because “Can’t. Sorry.”

My only thing on the wishlist is for my WMR-baser VR kit to work in Linux… maybe that’ll happen and maybe it won’t. Otherwise, I LOVE Tumbleweed.

Automatic rollbacks with Snapper and BTRFS have been wonderful too.

(If any of this sounds like rambling lingo please feel free to ask and I can clarify. ❤️)

You’re right, unwarranted doorkicking for unconstitutional search and seizure is very unlikely, thankfully.

I think dem-liberals have basically just used gun reform as a contrast to separate them from their opposition, but it’s had the side effect of giving many working class folks the false sense that the State is responsible for protecting them. The fringe-right neighbor-hating hyper-individualists have co-opted almost the entire narrative around the 2A conversation, and it sucks.

Years of history of armed labor unions and working class heroes unremembered, the fruit of their sacrifice handed over willingly by ignorant descendants. It’s tragic.

I used to be a lot more of a gun nut when I was younger. Now, I see them as an unfortunate necessity in an embattled, dark world, and nothing more.

I wish ammo hadn’t gotten so expensive though.

Yes! Every time I start to think “Hey maybe I should stock up a little…”

There go the friggin’ preppers using their midlife crisis money to clear out the shelves of anything but the most obscure cartridges.

They were gonna but the corporate necromancer was out of network.

Just kidding that’d be way too much effort for how they see human lives. They were likely hitting up LinkdIn before the body was cold.

It’s like the mustache-twirling movie villains when an underling gets merc’d for a hairbrained strategy:

“Congratulations, number 3. You’ve been promoted! Go get 'em!”

That’s just it though, the “passing glance” types that don’t pay much attention to anything at all will just assume the truth is whatever headline runs across their “feed of choice” the most often. Usually from large corporate outlets.

Let’s watch how hard gun control gets pushed when the barrels are aimed at the puppet masters.

Fellow lefties: If it’s safe for you to do so, acquire, train, and responsibly store. That is all.

I agree with you somewhat and I don’t like how much downvote spam you’re getting. You bring up some good points we ought to be mindful of.

Right now it seems very clear who the oppressors are, but the scary thing about reactive movements is that even if they accomplish their goal, they tend to seek to justify themselves indefinitely before everyone gets bored and it dissolves.

Everybody wants a revolution on paper, but things get messy and blurry once the powder keg goes off, and people en masse would be looking for the next enemy, the next oppressor, that must be hunted down to finally secure Utopia.

While I’m an anarchist and want the “ownership class” to answer for their wicked ways, I also don’t think a bunch of independent actors picking targets and gunning them down based solely on their own justification is an ideal solution. Even if I understand why it happens and don’t defend the perpetrators that push people to such extremes in the first place.

I can hold two ideas at the same time here, where I understand why it happened as a consequence of rampant evil on behalf of the ownership class, and it’s a natural comeuppance after pushing the wrong person too far. (I think we’re all shocked it took this long to happen.)

But also, unfortunately as much as we love a good revenge story, planting 3 slugs into another human being, even a nasty one, in cold blood, is not self-defense. The goal of self defense is the reduction of an attacker’s ability to cause direct and imminent harm to the defender.

This was assault, and it was murder, and we can reason about the justification behind it, but I sadly don’t really know what it will change, besides the bourgeois getting allocated even more of our money to have protection detail and hold their board meetings in walled enclaves or yahts away from the populace.

Violence begets violence. Blood begets blood, and those who live by the sword will die by it also. I think any sane rational person can agree this guy reaped what he and his ilk sowed every day, but still be against slaying human beings on the streets to make a point.

Edit: Knew I was just asking to get ratio’d for not 100% full-throttle stanning the trending narrative, but the actual responses (that I saw) were thought-provoking and well reasoned, so I appreciate that.

Sometimes it seems people forget the value of discourse and only care about “how popular is my opinion right now.”

And the occasional lenses for my eyeballs.

I know I’m asking for a lot because adequate vision is positively absolutely a luxury, and not at all necessary for doing the vast majority of work or existing in society…but y’know.

I actually like helping people a lot, too.

I don’t think IT folks are naturally misanthropic or antisocial, but I personally got beat down so much by wanting to help and realizing they didn’t care to listen, or weren’t willing to learn anything. At all. Even though they came to me with the problem, it seemed they mostly just wanted me to fix it for them with zero understanding required, or to “be emotional at someone” or were lonely.

I also got so tired of being friendly and enthusiastically educational with advising my relatives or friends, only to then watch them completely disregard 100% of my advice they came to me for.

In the former job I’m still putting myself back together from, most of the public peoples who visited me would have been better served by visiting a psychologist / therapist first, but I was cheaper (free). :(

Often when it’s something I do specialize in and I get all excited, that’s when they choose to gloss over and I can tell they just want me to stop talking.

I hate having biases against people, but there very much are definitely “normies” who are threatened by the prospect of having to activate their neurons for the first time since they stumbled out of their highest level of education, and only learned to think when it was forced upon them.

Makes a guy feel pretty crappy. So I’m not as forthcoming with my skillset as I used to be in casual company. Lol

“Hey remember that weird time everyone saw an augmented reality hallucination of Max Headroom for like 10 seconds?”

Holy crap. I hope he Labor Board fixes on them like freakin’ Sauron.

“'EY, WHAT’S EVERYTHING BETWEEN THE CHAIR AND THIS TERMINAL? AN IDIOT SANDWICH! >=[”

[Y] I’ll do better / [N] Sorry chef…

That’s one thing I really enjoy about Plasma. I never even considered things like “focus stealing” or when to raise windows, but there’s options to tweak.

Heck you can even change what RMB does. (Yeah my brain doesn’t need THAT radical of a change lmao)

The defaults are perfectly sane, but I like that there’s buttons or toggles to see if something else works better.

And that right-click menu can take a long walk off a short pier

Seriously. Why?! Who does this serve? It confuses newbies and just ticks off everybody else.

Also this google-apple-esque trend of trying to glyphize (is that a word? Lol) everything just for its own sake is kinda maddening too. (We don’t want literacy to be a bar to clicking ads! /s)

/rant lol.

Wow that’s irritating!

That’s what bothers me too: It’s so opinionated. I guess so their “support” can suggest the same solution to every problem.

But geeze, things like fastboot, Cortana, Edge, Onedrive, or this eco-mode, or secureboot, or other features tied to deals they strike especially with laptop hardware vendors that simply assume THIS Windows is the only thing that will ever be run on this device.

That’s the worst.

At least I haven’t heard of them clobbering your bootloader with an update recently but I probably jinxed it now LOL.

I try not to just be a *nix-cultist. I grew up with Windows and had a lot of fond experiences with it. It just feels like it serves shareholders over users anymore.

I feel like it’s trying to make its users even dumber, while I feel like we learn things while using Linux.