arsCynic

1. POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
2. It's a signature just like on any other forum.

I didn't mean AI slop by you, but by those toxic users.

Microsoft feigning innocence by utilizing trivia to district us from their highly unethical business practices. Screw Microsoft. Use Linux 🐧.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

This is the same problem as saying “an electric car with 100 mile range is totally fine because most journeys are well under 100 miles”.

Well… isn't it? If one's daily or most frequent back-and-forth journeys don't exceed 100 ㎞, then a 160 ㎞ range is indeed fine.

Most of the time I’m only using a browser (or VSCode). The annoying thing is the 1% of times when I want to print something, create a shortcut, use bluetooth headphones, configure a static IP, etc.

If one can figure this out on Windoze one can definitely figure it out on a beginner tailored Linux distro / desktop environment. Gnome is not one of them.

Use Photopea instead. It’s practically a copy-paste of Photoshop but in the browser, created by one person. Or if one has never used Photoshop before, try GIMP first.

Saying Photopea or GIMP is “practically a copy-paste of Photoshop” is laughable. Paint.NET, maybe.

I choose my punctuation marks carefully. I did not say GIMP is practically a copy-paste. However, Photopea, for what many if not most people use it for, is.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

but I think even after literally decades of development the actual desktop is still far behind Windows XP in many respects. […]

This argument is incomplete and unnuanced. Gnome ≠ Linux. While I use EndeavourOS and Linux Mint's Cinnamon as a desktop environment, I am completely confident that if computers shipped with Linux Mint*, then 95% of the population would have a far more pleasant experience compared to any other Microsoft Windows, especially the schizophrenic bloatware-laden Windoze 10/11 versions. Why such a high percentage? Because most users simply use the browser and don't need advanced proprietary software such as AutoCAD, Photoshop (†), nor specific driver software for niche twenty-something-button gaming mice.

*Linux Mint or any other Linux distribution that uses Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, Budgie, Xfce or similar desktop environments.
Caveat: Xfce hugely depends on how the distro configured it. Some, like Debian, badly configure the taskbar to have a—to me—unintuitive / unresponsive to shortcuts menu.
† Use Photopea instead. It's practically a copy-paste of Photoshop but in the browser, created by one person. Or if one has never used Photoshop before, try GIMP first.

✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

"If at first you don't succeed, blame immigrants." —Donald Musk

The average human's critical thinking skill was already low before AI, so...

"Small"? It's literally changing the time, one of the most significant variables in our lives.

Everyone has heard the hypothetical "if I could timetravel I'd kill Hitler", right? Well, now's the opportunity to depose of multiple aspiring Hitlers. Luigi Mangione laid the groundworks. They might not be building concentration camps, yet, but their greed is causing suffering of and/or killing just as many if not more.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

To be honest, if I had to choose a dictatorship to be conquered by I'd pick China over the US hands down. My antipathy for racist macho morons runs deep.

The former; the gunplay, maps, and strategical aspects seem excellent, and it looks beautiful. But I spend about 20 minutes in gaming spread over Quake Live and FPV. SkyDive. These are perfect to just play a quick match or two.