We have the original Kinect and an old Xbox 360 permanently stationed in the living room of the house.

Being able to have Kinect Party or its prequel (Double Fine’s Happy Action Theater) on the TV out there is absolute magic when you need to entertain a group of kids.

Holy crap, I think you’ve cracked it.

LLM AI is the trillion collar costing, terawatt consuming rubber ducky for the new millennium!

I think this could also be generalized into something like “Conservative struggles with colors other than black, white”

Where else am I going to keep all my Linux installer USB sticks, the bundle of cables that comes in handy every year or two, or the stuff I printed at work for my family that I need to take home?

It’s never made sense.

It makes perfect sense for the americans who have been conditioned for literal decades to react certain ways to certain things, while being kept ignorant of nice things that exist in the rest of the world.

For instance:

Government-run anything? It is mathematically and physically impossible for it to benefit society. It will, without fail, become a corrupt dumpster fire that furthers evil in our world.

Market-based solution that leans heavily on “personal responsibility?” Well that’s just great I tells ya! It lobs like the best, kindest, and most Christlike solution is to do nothing and let them fend for themselves! They will be stronger for it and will thank us!

omg it’s not just a website but it’s in the repos?

Honestly though if i’m doing video stuff and I leave htop and nvtop running on the second screen, that gets you like half way to this.

Have you guys seen Jurassic Park? It ran on UNIX!

kinda /s. I mean, it took somebody young and feminine to fix what the old white guy fucked up right? (I’m an old white guy fwiw, but MY system fuckups are all natural)

It feels like there are about 100 million of us in the states scratching our necks like Dave Chappelle and saying “y’all still got any of that ‘regime change’ we been handing out?”

The head-to-head comparison between the update user experience is so incredibly lopsided against Windows, that it kind of seems silly.

I bet if both have a big yearly update, I could format and install an entire fresh copy of the linux distro before the windows machine would be usable.

I didn’t say there were no issues.

My 4-monitor setup at work functions considerably better in both ubuntu and debian based Linux Mints than it does in Windows. Just your standard corporate Dell laptop & docking station.

No computers have zero weird stuff wrong with them. But over time the design intent has mattered more and more versus just the bugginess of the execution.

In my experience though, Linux has pulled ahead in both. And by a lot.

Yeah, my old machines (and work laptop!) are all nvidia, and it’s nice how seamlessly it works.

With the main version of mint that’s based on ubuntu, you get a driver manager so that you can choose between driver versions if needed.

With Linux Mint Debian Edition, it worked fine for general use out of the box with the open source driver. I went looking for info about the nvidia driver out of curiosity, and after stumbling upon some forum discussion I went ahead and tried “sudo apt install nvidia-driver” and it freaking worked!

• note I might be slightly off on that command, this is just from memory. And I probably enabled non-free software previously, because I know nvidia’s reputation with linux enthusiasts.

edit to add: it did a LONG setup process to enable the nvidia driver too. I think it compiled some kernel modules and stuff too. But I like reading all that lovely monospaced terminal text scroll by with those details most users can ignore.

Go install Linux Mint and you might just realize that line is already way behind microsoft.

I’m not sure where to start here, so here are two equally important building blocks.

First, aside from other reasons the Nazi/minority is wrong, you are comparing a label somebody gets for existing the way they were born with a label somebody gets for actions they take that harm other people.

Second, some kind of mishmash of the terms “social contract” and “paradox of tolerance.”

To a huge extent, I don’t think they know there are other options.

Or they are well aware of different cultures but know to their core that the USA is the greatest society to ever exist and God’s chosen or some shit. So all those progressive policies sound nice, yet they have produced abysmal results in every single European country! This is true by definition when every place outside the US is utter trash in your lead-addled brain.

Oh I want those things too. The current size of Lemmy is not my ideal. It’s just really really nice in its current form for me as a unique little nerdy place hidden in plain sight from what most of the internet has become.

It was more the juxtaposition of how the world needs all these open technologies that people band together to create for the good of all, buuuuut if nobody notices this particular one then that will serve my personal interests. And to be clear I’m not hoping for that or trying to hold it back. Just pointing it out. :)

American here, and one who grew up in what is now trump country. Well, I guess I still live in a republican area now, but I started out rural.

Your conclusion about how the society as a whole is sick is 100% spot on.

I don’t do much international travel, but I did get to spend a little bit of time in europe in the past couple years. Most of it in scandinavia of all places!

The difference is crazy, even not counting all this recent crazy shit. On the surface things look similar. But being immersed in it let all the little details sink in simultaneously.

There’s an air of dignity and respect that I am just not used to in american society. Even just the instances of “we couldn’t have that, somebody would immediately ruin it” were constant.

Yep, I’m ready to read the news that this platform surpassed the user base of Lemmy on the first day and never looked back. And I am ready to not be bothered by it.

Good on them for any pain they inflict on reddit. And I do hope the fediverse takes over the global media landscape because that is better for humanity than corpo-governmental gatekeepers. But if Lemmy’s user base just hangs around in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions, I am content.

Oh no, the US’s military strikes now have press-only events, information embargoes, and street dates like it’s the damned video game industry?

You have to love it when people whose frickin’ job is the law just stand there and say “unlawful” followed by a word from the bill of rights.

I mean, we are way past that, but still fuck this guy.

Because the standard version of Mint uses the ubuntu repositories. You get to utilize most of what makes up ubuntu, but decoupled from the stuff Canonical wants to push. It has some added polish as well.

It was more of an ubuntu-specific reply rather than “what’s the best distro” thing.

But now that you mention it, there is also Linux Mint Debian Edition! :D

I might actually start using LMDE at work, since we have some stuff that’s more focused on debian than ubuntu.