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Perhaps the takeaway is that opportunities don't come that often and don't sell yourself short by assuming you won't be able to succeed?

I'm not a hardcore gamer but I'm a fan of cloud gaming, first Google Stadia (rip) and later Gforce Now. And Gforce Now supports Steam games so the more games available in the Steam-catalogue, the better.

Last Week Tonight, on the other hand, I still find and satire and informative.

Reading the article, it seems like the configuration of the fstab-file needs to be done at creating the bootable usb-stick? Or can it also be modified afterwards?

I didn't want to go into it too much but in Belgium there isn't a political with more than 25% representation. So each government has to be a coalition of several political parties. There isn't a system where the winner takes it all. A voter in Belgium doesn't identify itself with one party for life. So we often switch between political parties. Here's no 'us against them' culture. And because the outrage against other political parties isn't a thing, it also isn't a daily thing in the media.

Being from Belgium, following American politics started for me together with the rise of YouTube and I could watch episodes of The Daily Show on it and where things have gone from topics like 'Dick Cheney shot someone in the face' to news like this. It really made me stop watching talkshows that I really enjoyed like The Daily Show, The Late Show with SC, ... . It's so much politics, every day again, on so many television shows. Is it also perceived as such in the USA itself? In Belgium, for many reasons, politics isn't 24/7 discussed everywhere, everytime.

I started several years ago with the YouTube Premium family plan. It gave me:

• YouTube Originals
• YouTube Music
• No ads
• Background playing

My kids are fine with it. It saves me and them a Spotify subscription. Having YouTube Originals disappear somewhat, lessened the value for me. Once the kids are not under my roof anymore, I'll have to rethink this subscription plan. But that will be in eight years, or so. In that time so much will change, it's not even worth thinking about it.

I'm an Ubuntu-user. My wife and myself have a Windows laptop from work and my kids also from school. Not to have to buy another laptop for personal use I made an Ubuntu-usb-stick to boot from any of these four available laptops. I'm not a power user. I need some office-apps, web-browser, ... . And gaming is done via Gforce-Now cloud gaming. If that makes me a noob 🙂 I mostly don't have the time anymore to tinker with all this anymore. Been there, done that.

I used to play around with a lot of internet browsers and executed on top of that scripts in greasemonkey, add-ons, plug-ins, ... . But the trustworthiness of these things were not clear for me anymore. So now I'm at using Edge Chromium. Better the devil you know 🙂

I'm not waiting to see Twitter fail. I'm just hoping that the federated alternatives for Twitter and Reddit will get more mainstream. And I must say that I'm happy with the way things are evolving at Mastodon and Lemmy.

I have both a Lemmy and Mastodon account besides my Twitter and Reddit account. Every person and channel I follow on both Twitter and Reddit, I immediately follow on Lemmy and Mastodon once they have an account and channel over there. But it's all about content and interaction. Keeping track of the Ukraine war, for instance, was difficult on Mastodon. But posting on Mastodon was a much nicer experience in regard to interaction with members over there.