It’s a good KDE distro (my preferred DE) and I’ve become familiar with tools like zypper and YaST that I’d be sad to lose.

Oh for sure. I just like OpenSUSE enough to switch GPUs for. I only really run older games aside from Baldur’s Gate III and Cyberpunk, so I really don’t need the latest and greatest.

I forgot how terrible Windows actually is

Windows, while always shitty, has seriously gone downhill in the past 5 years. I’m looking to switch back to Linux myself, but I have an NVidia GPU that needs constant driver babying on OpenSUSE (my preferred distro). My current plan is to find someone who is willing to swap a RTX 4070 for a equivalent or slightly worse AMD card, and then switch back to OpenSUSE.

Not all heroes wear capes

Bots are largely a nuisance to the communities they’re in; I would advise against making one.

Most leftist voters around me knew that a vote for Harris or Trump was a vote for genocide, but I don’t think anyone but the truly gullible thought that a vote for Trump was a vote against genocide. Most voted for Harris as a means of harm reduction, especially considering that Harris could probably be pressured out of genocide if we made a big enough stink.

The whole “Genocide Joe” trope reminds me a lot of the “Bernie Bro’s” trope of 2016; a largely manufactured division of leftist and liberal voters to promote infighting.

You should absolutely be treating the US government as a hostile entity. Many Americans are also treating it as such, and are organizing emergency preparations (mainly go-bags) for things like martial law, civil war, and being targeted as a result of belonging to a prohibited minority group. You should take the US government’s threats seriously. We are.

100%

I hope with time we can prove to you that there’s Americans here fighting against this. I know it doesn’t look great now, and don’t blame you for hating us and our country. As an American, I also hate us and our country.

I know Europeans hate us Americans and I understand why. I’ve never supported Trump and have fought with my dollar, vote, and time, but I am just too ashamed to show my face in the EU any time soon.

firmware updates, then I forget the network on the device and then denylist the MAC address

lmao, what a tool

If you factory reset your Bravia and then decline all the Google features (don’t sign in, etc.) it’s about as close to a dumb TV as you can get these days.

Yes, tragically. Don’t buy a Samsung Odyssey monitor like I did. It takes 7 button presses to change the input and there’s a Disney+, Netflix, and Prime Video dedicated buttons on the remote.

I’m looking to “down”-grade ASAP.

My TV and computer monitor are deny-listed on my router, and I’m angry that I even have to do that.

I think this diff makes it pretty clear its time to run, not walk: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114078708183574404

100%. There was a shortage of traffic controllers before the firings even began, this only exacerbated a bad situation.

Came here to recommend this. Cheers! 🍻

Well if it isn’t the consequences of his own actions.