I’m a firm believer that regardless of operating system that a warning message saying that installing something could cause harm to your device definitely makes people think twice about installation if they’re not tech savvy (AKA know more than the bare minimum anymore). It’s definitely intentional that the large companies responsible scare you away from doing the things you want because they want you locked into doing things the way they want.

You could replace that with just about any other fandom based around a TV/movie franchise and I guarantee it’ll probably be the exact same. I am thankful every day that I don’t join specific communities based around individual show/movie franchises because of how toxic they can get.

Point out to certain fandoms either some major flaw or the fact you don’t like the show and some groups will act like you just committed a 9/11 style terrorist attack on their show. Same thing even goes for creators of the show sometimes. We really need to end fandom culture.

Didn’t know that. Fair enough for them.

Calling open source communism aside, capitalism and those who benefit the most from it probably absolutely HATE the largest open source projects because the more people use those, the less likely they are to use their telemetry based spy/bloatware.

Imagine trying to make a paid video/audio file player in today’s day and age and going up against the titan that is VLC. Or an audio editor/playback program in similar fashion to Audacity. Two of the biggest open source programs that I imagine just about anyone who has used a computer has probably heard of and/or used at some point.

better security for the entire world…

The moment Linux takes over as a dominant desktop/laptop OS we’ll start seeing a metric ton of the windows hackers follow suit to attack us. We’ll end up in a situation where they’ll probably go after some random kernel bugs that nobody else.has found yet or just don’t think are critical/exploitable. Or they’ll just attack the biggest, most widely used distros, going after people using them and any derivative distro similar enough for their malicious tools to work on it.

In general though, it would be a good thing for Linux to become a lot more prominent in the desktop/laptop market for general users. Especially since I imagine thanks to Linux being open source, people would be able to stop these malicious actors from doing damage much quicker (even though I imagine the majority of normal people switching over would almost never update because they’re used to forced updates and not having to do it themselves).

Those are some absolutely beautiful odds if it’s a one off 1% chance of death by pressing the button! Sign me up, Scotty!

Anyone have any objections or anything negative to say about snapdrop(dot)net besides maybe anyone on the same network could try to connect to you?

I didn’t know what I was expecting, but that felt just a little disappointing. Still pretty interesting to look at, though.

Hahaha, that’s funny. Where would you go to find that art so that way I can totally avoid it? Asking for a friend! Who definitely isn’t interested in this or anything!

The biggest thing keeping me from switching away from Gboard are things like the Japanese and Chinese IMEs. I have yet to find an open source keyboard with both of those, while also allowing me to switch to English.

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Clicked on the article. Clicked on the Trime and Fcxit5 and plugins links. It might be suitable in the future. Hoping this isn’t a situation where I finally find a solution and then the devs suddenly disappear without a trace.

I’m curious too. I’m definitely gonna have to think about looking up how they compare to each other followed by how they compare to SteamOS.

Nothing but have it write stories (not shared or used for anything but just for fun). That, and come up with names for things since I struggle with that.

I don’t plan on surviving in the apocalypse if I can help it, so knowing how to ride a bike won’t help. I’m hoping, in the event of an apocalypse, I’ll be in an area where nukes will be shot so I don’t have to attempt to survive.

I feel called out, as someone who can’t ride a bike.

I didn’t know I needed multi-coloured terminal text until I saw the 2nd image. It looks so much more readable!

I personally find Balatro, on Steam (is most likely already in the package repo for your distro), to be addicting enough for me at least. Don’t know if the demo is still up, but if it is, I’d start there to make sure you don’t have buyers remorse. Works with Proton (right click on full game or demo in library, properties, compatibility settings, force them on, and I found it works with Proton experimental if I remember correctly).

Game is simple enough to play. Get hand of 8 cards. Play poker hands. Get chips based on hand. Win and get money. Use money in shops to buy things that change your deck or buy joker cards that do different things to the hands you play. Repeat for 8 rounds of 3 blinds, each time the required score going up.

That, or Baba Is You if you want a puzzle game that will warp your mind. Works out of the box on Steam, Proton not required. Complex game where you control character(s) and/or object(s) to try and get to the win condition. The catch is you have little text words that take up tiles on the screen (can turn tile outlines on in settings if it makes it easier to see and understand, which it does for me). You can move them to change the rules of the game. You might start off controlling Baba, the rabbit(?) creature the game is probably named after, then switch to controlling all the walls in a level.

Has a built in level editor and even has bonus levels from the developer that show off things added for the level editor and scrapped levels cut in development, some with signs that give commentary.

Though, for non-Steam games, I personally like to recommend games like SuperTuxKart (don’t know a single mainstream distro that doesn’t have it in their package manager). Game starts you off, if you start the story mode that is kinda just there, with a tutorial that teaches you how to play. Simple enough racing game with a ton of community made add-ons for when you get bored of the official content. Has online multiplayer and can be played with friends through split screen so long as you have enough keyboards/controllers. Don’t know the max amount of split screen can support though.

I’ve played enough of all three games that they aren’t as addicting as I have either played too much (SuperTuxKart and Balatro) or I’ve gotten to the point where the puzzles are tedious to the point I spend a few minutes on them before giving up (Baba Is You)

Red, pink, and black. As a furry, why wouldn’t I choose red? With the pink pill, the water wouldn’t really change flavor as I’m a big water fan. And with never having to sleep, I’d be able to get less done in more time… wait…

I haven’t been getting that level of craziness yet, but I just always ignore practically everything that isn’t someone I’ve subbed to and isn’t about a cartoon/anime I like, isn’t from someone I have already seen before and like but ain’t subbed to, and isn’t a game/topic I’m interested in.

I’ve seen some of the people I see on the front page of the Odysee app that I’ve never interacted with in any other way than scrolling past them appear on the front page of my patched yt app. It’s insane, but it won’t be a big issue for me, in terms of strictly just using the app, until they replace every suggestion with those nutjobs.

Yo! I would love for something like this to become a thing because I have recently become a big fan of SVGs. Would absolutely love a custom cursor that scales to any size with minimal issues of it looking too small on the 1080 TV I sometimes plug my laptop into using HDMI.

If it’s an actual nightcore remix and not just speeding up the song and calling it a nightcore remix, I would definitely agree with this.