Better than VII!

As a life-long Windows user, Linux Mint’s Cinnamon UI feels very at-home. Hell, it feels more at-home than Win 11’s UI, since Win 11’s UI has so many weird choices and unnecessary changes from prior OSes.

for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask

I would put ChromeOS in it’s own category just because it is so different than the other Linux variants, just as MacOS is so different than the rest.

Windows, Linux, MacOS, ChromeOS

The main goal is to stop people from dying with hopes of making the stopping of the dying permanent. Considering Russia wants all of Ukraine and Ukraine obviously doesn’t want to be taken over by Russia, there isn’t much middle ground to build upon a ceasefire.

The best way to ensure peace is to give Ukraine the tools they need to repel the invader. Secondary tariffs on anyone helping Russia is certainly helpful in repelling the invader.

Yeah, I’m just going to wait and see. If it’s good, I’ll buy it, otherwise I won’t.

From this article:

the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule

The FTC is free to issue this again. They need to do it in accordance with the law next time.

Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.

Smaller studios have been consistently putting out good games as of late anyway. Indy and AA studios have the freedom to make fun things instead of having to check every box on a spreadsheet.

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Yeah, it’s very unlikely it survived.

If you have your encryption key backed up, you have a chance to decrypt it still. It’s also possible, but unlikely, the key somehow survived the ISO write and it was written elsewhere on the drive, allowing the key to be recovered. I would only trust such with a professional. (There is basically a smaller encrypted section that your typed-in password decrypts, that section contains the encryption key the rest of the drive uses.)

Honestly though, if you have your stuff backed up (you do have your stuff backed up elsewhere?!?), just restore from your backup and call this a loss.

If you don’t have a backup, this was your wakeup call. Always have a backup going forward.

Don’t fret it, happens to everyone. And the rapidly changing pace of the news here makes it all the more likely.

the website’s admins do not want you to have any control over your front page. The end result is utterly alienating.

This is one of the biggest things. Back when I would netflix often, I would constantly be annoyed when the ‘continue watching’ dialog was not the first one. Stop moving it around! Now I just watch everything locally. It’s so much nicer.

There is no reason streaming should be such a pain in the ass, and it amazes me the industry has made basic, paid access to shows a chore. And they wonder why viewership is not great*.

*Also the writing generally sucks ass and assumes I’m not paying attention. No, seriously, they assume you aren’t paying attention and write shows as such now. It makes so many things unwatchable.

I’m still confused on why Netflix has any games.

Yeah, the reporting I have seen says the ceasefire wasn’t fully followed at first, but has been holding since.

I’m also confused by the title, as even the article says ‘fuck’ has been said by presidents before crowds.

How to run something you don’t trust without performance lost?

A virtual machine is generally your best choice. You build a little box around it and tell it to have fun inside that box.

It doesn’t work well for games (you can do it with games, but it’s generally not worth it), but for smaller programs, it is a very reliable choice with minimal performance impact.

When they try to negotiate for food or economic assistance, it gets framed as extortion

When one threatens death and destruction in exchange for money and goods, one does frame that as extortion, yes.

Why the hell would you want Iran to have nukes? Just because Israel and/or US bad, doesn’t mean Iran is good. Far, far from it.

Things with admin privilege have access to everything. If it is only user-privileged, it only has access to what that user was granted access to.