gusgalarnyk

Cyberpunk was the last game I preordered preordered and it was because of the blatant lies they told about the game before the release and still have not (and will not) deliver on.

I loved the world they artistically manifested and expanded in some ways (thanks Pondsmith!), loved the music, loved the start of the game. I have yet to finish it because it's still a buggy mess at times.

I'll finish it one day, everyone says the DLC is great. But it will be several solid and honest game releases before I trust cdpr again with any sales pitch. Until third parties have their hands on it, we can't even trust the footage.

As a software engineer working a job more focused on paperwork and safety (aviation, it's good but it's not code heavy), does anyone have good proven advice on how to start down this track? Maybe it doesn't resonate or maybe I won't have the time, but I'm interested in seeing if it's a good fit by starting somewhere simple and seeing where that goes.

Ya, sorry, my bad. Someone else commented that there are five flavors and I was like "oof they must not have come across as realistic or viable options for me very early on". But you know how it is, memory is fickle. This was the best summary I could do as a very inexperienced Linux person.

Nobara is the oft pointed to gaming distro for Linux. There are three major flavors of Linux as far as I can tell (I did some research for a similar switch, which I haven't completed because I have some stupid digital coins divesting and when that's done I'm coming over). There is Debian, Fedora, and Arch. The easiest and simplest way for me to understand them is scaling them in terms of stability and latest releases. Debian is supposedly super stable but furthest behind on releases because of all the stability testing. Arch is least stable but on all of the latest releases. Fedora is the middle ground, more stable but slightly behind.

Nobara is based on Fedora and is recommended for new Linux users who want to game. The steam deck is on an Arch based distro. Linux Mint, another recommended pick for new comers, is based on Debian.

I am personally porting over to Arch Linux, because I want to have the latest releases and I believe I can sufficiently reduce the instability with a couple of processes. I have it installed on my laptop and it's been seemingly stable for about a quarter.

Also, to add to the fire here - what the fuck is political neutrality in modern day America. Political neutrality when one of the parties is doing Hitler impersonations on the daily isn't political neutrality it's passive support for the party.

It's that whole saying, if a Nazi sits down at a table with three guys and they don't object there are four Nazis sitting at a table.

I don't give a shit that they're based in Switzerland Every country has an extreme regressive party right now flirting or endorsing fascism. In Germany we have the AFD. Everyone has to take a stand everywhere.and they have to do so publicly, everyone but especially those people in a position of concentrated power like those leading a company or within the government.

On Reddit everything I posted was for the betterment of a private company owned by tech assholes and was sold and scraped for profit by other tech assholes.

Lemmy gets rid of that incentive to shut up and stay quiet. I still don't post much but that's just a product of how I partake in the Internet. I imagine I'll post more as I age.

I feel like every "distressing" thread has comments like that one that are innocent but obtuse and suffer the same vote ratio.

But perception is manipulative, without data I can't back my position. Maybe we're both wrong and the reality is somewhere in the middle.

Good note, thank you. It's important we protect ourselves against bad faith actors. I wrote a note on the account for myself but I wanted to give them a chance to explain themselves.

Isn't the FDP the ones that just sabotaged the left leaning coalition? If so, they should be out of government entirely - not just the Bundestag. We're fighting everywhere between left progress parties and the conservative status quo (and it seems rapid decline extremist parties like the AFD). Anyone acting in bad faith or against making things better should be ridiculed and removed from politics by the people.

The conservatives want to lower corporate taxes! I can't believe we're considering making the societal and budgetary problems worse by giving the wealthy more money.

Just empathize for a moment, imagine - you're scrolling on your feed which encompasses the world's daily news. You see a picture of a modern day concentration camp's aftermath. You see the gruesome effect it has on people or you say the mass grave. You open it up and you decide to write a comment. What do you comment on?

I just think if it's anything other than empathizing with the subject matter and engaging with it your comment is going to come across as robotic, as inhuman, because if something like this doesn't move you then there's something wrong. I don't think a meta comment pinned to an empathic and engaging topic would be down voted so horribly. For instance, if someone said "I can't believe this level of cruelty is still going on in places with abundant resources historically. Side note: when the source material moves off Twitter we should reshare that as Twitter is owned by a Nazi." I would think people wouldn't stop to down vote.

It's not about getting in line with the prevailing narrative in this instance, it's just the nature of Internet discussion in an aggregate platform on a serious topic that's got a long time scale. You're talking to strangers about people being tortured or dying and we live in a world where some non-marginal amount of people don't care or applaud it so the first thing a frequent reader wants to do when reading a comment is vet that you're not one of the applauders.

Is there anything about this that makes you believe it's false or misleading propaganda?

The amount of investment you'd need to reduce your need to work takes the average person multiple decades, that's literally what retirement is. And even if you only considered a part time retirement that still takes decades. In fact my current understanding is most people's retirement funds will be insufficient when they go to retire.

No amount of investing will save the majority of people from needing to work for the majority of their life. The other alternatives to selling your labor to capital, like starting your own business, requires up front investment and even then isn't a guarantee. The number of jobs that require minimal investment and can serve as a sole source of income do not exist in sufficient quantities.

So no, investing is not the solution, becoming an entrepreneur is not a solution, at the scale of our society there are few solutions and the primary one is taxing corporations more and taxing billionaires out of existence.

People deserve a right to live. I'm not saying people shouldn't plan for retirement, I'm not saying don't try and start a business. I'm saying to you stop framing it as dependency, that's a fuckin crazy thought process. The overwhelming majority of people go to school and then get a job. Those people deserve to thrive without having a perfect stock portfolio which will materialize in 40 years, without having a second job, without turning their art into a commercial enterprise.