I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don’t need fancy tilíng windows or Wayland.

You can have fancy tiling windows and Wayland without Gnome! Wayland is actually pretty great for low-resource devices, I recently did a glmark benchmark on a Raspberry Pi 3B, and on the Wayland session (with the wayland version of glmark) I got about double the score of the Xorg session (with the xorg versioni of glmark). It’s just that Raspberry Pi OS’s Wayland session doesn’t use Gnome, but LabWC.

And I always configure my LXQt desktop with a tiling wm, works great and looks great IMO. Plus, the LXQt devs are working on making it fully Wayland-compatible.

I definitely remember the times when wlan was a PITA on Linux : )

Haven’t used Windows in a hot minute, do you actually have to install WLAN drivers manually there?

Mutual trust between threadiverse instances is a bit tenuous these days …

Right now, yes, but for the vast majority of history it wasn’t even close. Your link shows that China only met the EU’s per capita emissions in 2013, when climate change was already pretty far along. And they are still profiting from their past emissions via the wealth and societal development that they generated back then.

Trump and his cronies, probably

Europe (alongside the USA and other countries of the “western world”) has been releasing disgusting amounts of climate change-inducing gases since the 18th century, and they (alongside the USA) were the main profiteers of climate pollution until the latter half of the 20th century. Arguably still are, though other countries like China and Brazil also play a part now.

Granted, this treats nations as monoliths, it’s not like the population of most countries really had a choice for the most part.

Helps that Europe is warming faster than the global average. Karma, I guess.

I wonder if US courts would agree.

I’d argue that agentic AI by nature makes transition to a different model easy.

Aww, did the serial copyright violator get copyright violated?

Is Sony still releasing as physical releases, vs. download codes in a box? Can you resell download codes? And do you actually resell Playstation games, or do you just want to have the option?

For me, Steam games are so much cheaper than console games that I think that it’s worth it to always pick Steam over console even if Steam turns evil eventually and makes my entire library disappear. I’m also not planning on buying separate gaming hardware, I just add a GPU to my main desktop PC. But who knows, maybe a Steam Machine is actually a better deal the next time I need to upgrade my PC for gaming.

I should probably pick GOG over Steam more often.

Kinda sketchy how only one of the scales starts at 0.

I’ve always been running Ubuntu- or Debian-derived distros on all my laptops and desktops since I switched to Linux, including those specifically billed as “low in resource use” (Crunchbang/Bunsenlabs FTW). Works great, very little hassle.

On my phone I use VLC player to play files that I saved on local storage. It’s very rare that I do any kind of streaming on my phone, if I do I do it through Firefox.

Dentist drills. I’m not really the “scared of dentists” type, but that noise can really hurt your ears.

Speeding motorcycles. It’s really annoying because it’s extremely unnecessary, these people are just being as loud as possible for fun. Same goes for anyone driving a Harley. I also hate the noise of motor scooters, but those are utilitarian and thus less insulting.

AFAIK most water gets used in construction, and constructing city-sized facilities uses a LOT of resources. Now guess which side gets favored if there’s a resource conflict between a datacenter and the local population.

It’s not NIMBY if you don’t want new datacenters elsewhere, either.

stupid war that serves no one.

It’s standard divide and conquer, definitely serves the people in power.

In Germany, university is basically free and at least when I went, expensive textbooks weren’t a thing at all. But you still have to have a way to pay for your living expenses, good luck trying to finish a degree when you’re working 20+ hours a week. Of course it can be done (depending on the workload in your specific degree), but once any kind of issue arises (e.g. mental health issues, or even just breaking a leg) there’s a very high risk that you’re going to drop out.