BURN

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[–] BURN 1 points 11 months ago

Money is how

Half of F2 is the best drivers from the junior series. The other half have a ton of cash to throw around and probably belong nowhere near the F2 grid

[–] BURN -1 points 11 months ago

100% same

I was needing to boot back to windows multiple times per day to accomplish simple tasks, and that made Linux no longer worth the hassle.

[–] BURN 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t see it as exploitation. The players chose to go to that school and play football. They’re being provided benefits worth 10s of thousands of dollars, as well as significant amenities that regular students are not. It’s not my problem that sports makes more money than other extracurriculars. The band, the cheer team and every other sport make that same decision, but don’t get paid either, because the school is providing something of value in exchange for the labor provided.

I also agree with the original premise of NIL, which allowed players to benefit from their Name, Image and Likeness. That is no longer the way it’s being applied, and is pay for play.

Paying the players as employees will end women’s sports. It’ll also kill the significant majority of non Football/MBB programs, resulting in a net loss of sports programs everywhere, as well as the end of the American domination of most Olympic sports.

[–] BURN 2 points 11 months ago

The iPad Pro covers 99% of Photographer use cases. They’ve got enough processing power now that it doesn’t really have a difference from their laptops

Source: Am considering an iPad Pro instead of a laptop for my photography.

[–] BURN 2 points 11 months ago

To be honest, DEs are one of the biggest things I dislike about trying to use Linux. Nothing works with each other, solutions for one don’t work for another and unless you spend weeks configuring them they all look and function the same.

Windows and Mac are simple. There’s one option, it works well and doesn’t need a bunch of tweaking to make it tolerable (at least to me)

[–] BURN 1 points 11 months ago

Tbh I prefer individual installation control and don’t really like the Linux store page method. I’d much rather install directly from the developer.

[–] BURN 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve personally had poor experiences with Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro and one or two others I’ve tried. Every single one required a few hours of tweaking in the terminal to get it even close to being functional, and I constantly found new things it wouldn’t work with (hardware, software, games, etc)

After about a week of being unable to use my computer as I’d like to (online gaming and photo editing) I went back to Windows.

[–] BURN 3 points 11 months ago

Nobody cares about real minor leagues. The reason college sports work is the brands attached. Otherwise nobody would watch. The G-League has the same issues, there’s no reason to watch it

[–] BURN -1 points 11 months ago

I’m not, nor would I want to. Unions are great for certain fields, but not mine, and would hurt more than it’d help me. It has nothing to do with this either.

Just because someone feels some way doesn’t make that feeling an objective truth.

[–] BURN 3 points 11 months ago

Yep, nobody is going to watch a minor league game. The reason college athletics work is because of the name attatched to the school. Nobody cares about some minor league team, they care about the team that represents the school they went to.

[–] BURN -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I can claim my job is exploiting me, despite being paid a fair wage (which I believe a degree and scholarship are) but it doesn’t make it true.

They’re killing the golden goose. Ending college athletics ends almost all their careers. They won’t get paid, there will just be no offerings for them to play anymore.

[–] BURN -3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

They’re not being exploited. They get free degrees, something the rest of us have to pay 10s of thousands of dollars for. That’s not exploitation

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