IMO that reaction is healthy, as long as it isn’t a hostile “you’re holding it wrong” (which was not my intent, and is very much a community problem). Communal troubleshooting is the nature of the Linux desktop.

If you don’t want advice, that’s fine, probably reasonable based on what you described. But I have had some similar (but not so severe) issues with Fioo and Xonar cards that got fixed with some low level configs I had no idea existed.

I’m on the millennial train here, and am fully onboard with the monopolization angle, but this is taking it a bit far? Chromebooks aren’t that bad.

Stepping back and maybe over generalizing again, I think the problem might be… attention spans? Like kids are so bombarded with feeds and notification spam that, on average, there’s less patience to sit down, look stuff up, and neurotically tinker (which was still the vast minority in my generation). Its the same problem leading to less interest in literature, TV, anything long form.

Learning the bare minimum to function in Windows is not exactly “tech literate” to me, it just happens to be the system so many businesses are stuck with, and some generations were forced to learn by coincidence. Looking back, modern Android and iOS are really accessible by comparison, though of course they have enshittification issues.

To expand on Shrubbery, you can read the Guardian’s editorial standards and the base ones they follow: https://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/08/08/EditorialGuidelinesAug2011.pdf

according to people familiar with the…

In journalism, this is common lingo for “our journalists personally communicated with sources (more that one) that wish to remain anonymous.” It’s the guardian’s legwork and integrity for shielding anon sources here, not them copying it from some other site (which they’d link if they did).

Exactly. Hence the importance of linking the original source…

I was kind curious too, even if I can’t fix it. But… okay.

Sorry the be pedantic, but why not link the original source?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/19/trump-caution-on-iran-strike-linked-to-doubts-over-bunker-buster-bomb-officials-say

Since it’s their inside sources.

Whether World ID’s system catches on and succeeds will come down to trust.

That’s ironic, because the core concept is that you don’t need to “trust” Tools for Humanity with your personal data. You can read the company’s white papers and understand exactly how it all works.

But humans aren’t wired to think that way. Most people will want to trust the company scanning their irises. That’s a challenge for a company that takes a lot of licks in the press for its futuristic introduction of blockchain into the real world in the form of the metallic orbs.

Oh, I understand how it works, I understand I don’t want that shit going in and out of some public ledger on their stack.

I understand I don’t want to boost another crypto pyramid scheme.

I understand this is associated with Sam Altman, I understand I work with open weights models and (for Lemmy) am a gigantic ML enthusiast, and I understand that, even then, I would not wish one bit of crap that con man sells on my worst enemy, and will shout it to anyone who will listen.

What distro? What sound card?

You might try something new that runs pipewire by default, if you haven’t already. But I might also know of some specific quirks with specific cards.

To be fair, it’s understandable given dev time constraints.

…I was surprised by how impactful some BG3 choices were. Channels old school RPGs I guess, yet somehow with the glitz (and voice acting) of new.

They get no engagement though. Social media’s dumped fact checking, which means most won’t see it.

Hear me out, theoretically this is actually cool?

Like, theoretically, take away the Fox propaganda and shameless lack of disclosure. Picture this guy presenting himself as a CI, like a convicted hacker, former cartel, defector or something. He has real experience with Iran, missiles, the whole Contra affair. He knows what they’d do with them, how they get them, what the buyers are like because he shamelessly sold them.

That’d be a cool perspective.

It’s of course not reality, but still.

Welcome to the future. I actually thought he was tangentially involved too.

No sane person can keep up with verifying news anymore. Most people’s feeds are pretty bad, and that’s the point! He literally burned out fact-checkers and journalists (and numbed minds to them) last term.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/four-more-exhausting-years-trump-reporters-mull-covering-a-second-term-1292213/

As he did on Wall Street before he got into politics:

https://www.fool.com/podcasts/marketfoolery/2016-02-26-our-mtg-w-donald-trump/

Might be better if social media changes, but… we basically elected Big Tech:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-politics-trump-verification-misinformation-00bc57b4a3c348a1363610c1cbbfd8ca

What’s also messed up is that it’s that hard for this kid to get citizenship. That’s just a broken system.

TBF those companies don’t have the budget for a astroturfing bot campaign, or at least can’t afford the PR hit.

What an ad. This is the second greatest YT video ever made.

Go over there and listen to x lines of dialog only up go back and listen to y lines of dialog only to return to the first person and listen to more…

Other games use similar mechanics at times but often not with characters that are so far apart and/or not without some kind of fast travel system that can make the whole process faster.

IMO the problem is character writing.

As an example, AC Odyssey had some great gems, like the underworld, that island intrigue quest, anything involving Phoebe, though many “mundane” quests had quirky characters too. Kassandra’s VA killed it through the whole game. I still remember all that, and I remember enjoying the in-between because I loved the characters and scenery. It was such a compelling reward.

It did have filler quests though.

…If talking and exploring itself feels like a chore, then that’s the problem IMO. It shouldn’t be a low point between gameplay.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. You can do most of your work in linux and boot windows as a ‘secondary’ OS for stuff like adobe? I do this, and share NTFS SSDs/hard drives between them.

You are hitting weak points of linux though. I do all media work on linux (a lot through vapoursynth or ‘lower level’ frameworks than resolve I suppose), but TBH do most of my gaming on Windows, not just for convenience but for performance reasons too.

A big share of black males are Trump supporters, going by older surveys I’ve seen. Could be reflecting that.

There’s got to be some complexity behind that (and there are articles on it), but one theory I’ve heard is that many feel “abandoned” by the establishment like, say, young males (who also skew more Trumpy than 30+). Maybe social media usage is a factor too? Keep in mind the public knows Trump as the anti establishment candidate.

The original report:

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_CyorzxR.pdf

“Invade Afghanistan, you will regret it,” is one of history’s NCDish lessons. Like:

• Don’t invade Russia in winter.
• Don’t let Germany get too economically depressed.
• Don’t let the Chinese people get too unhappy with their govt.

Iran feels geographically close enough to inherit the curse for sure.