winterayars

Using json for IPC but a binary format for log files sounds insane to me, but alright.

Nuclear war has been mentioned a couple times but i feel it deserves elaboration: We've been real fucking close a couple times. There was a Soviet "nuclear counterattack station", or whatever, that got the "nuclear strike detected, fire retaliatory missiles" signal and the person responsible simply refused. The signal was due to a glitch, there was no attack. That guy probably saved millions and millions of lives by refusing to carry out his duty.

If you consider (potential) timelines being "close" to ours in terms of only a small number of things needing to change to get us there, the one where everything went to nuclear hell is very close to ours--but we're not in that one.

You don't want blue light anyway because it messes with your night vision.

Yet both liberals and conservatives (in your sense of the words) say this.

1000% this. Aftermarket, fucked colors, and/or no alignment is the cause of the problems. I would add that a lot of aftermarket lights are also way too bright. Sure, the owner can see (a tiny bit) better but everyone else gets blinded. Even then, it's not bad unless they're not aligned properly. (Well, it'll still blind you if it's a truck directly behind you but that's just trucks.)

For running applications: in addition to Flatpak (which is "cross platform" in that it works on most/all distros) there's also Appimage. Appimage is the most like downloading a Windows application (technically it's even more Mac-like) because you download a self contained program that just works. Not every application has a Flatpak or Appimage option, though.

I believe Xbox One controllers work if wired or fully Bluetooth out of the box, but if you use the dongle you need some software to handle it. I use "zone", it's kind of a pain to set up but honestly no more than (say) the Windows software to get PlayStation controllers working.

Protondb is primarily concerned with Proton, Valve's customized version of Wine, so by default that means games run through Steam. (Of which there is a native Linux client.) If you want to use other games, ex ones that require EA's launcher thing, then a tool to help make that happen is Lutris. It will help manage your games and launchers and customized Wine installs, including some automatic tweaks to make things work better (or at all). Steam gets official developer support for Linux so it's generally the easiest experience.

Well there's no way to fact check this so i guess it'll have to stand.

Blue check on Twitter... Someone who's paying $10/mo to the world's richest person has an overinflated sense of importance... well... What're you gonna do?

Technically i think the worst they could do would be to record your screen. (Barring some extra fancy exploits or something.)

That depends on how you speed it up. For example, the Covid vaccines were "accelerated" compared to normal vaccines but they did that by spending additional money to run the steps of the process in parallel. Normally they don't do that because if one of the steps fail they have to go back and those parallel processes are wasted. For the Covid vaccines, the financial waste was deemed worth it to get the speed up of parallelization.

Unfortunately, the powerful have the power so they're arranging my life too. To the best of their ability, at least.

You're right that we should not confuse their values for our own, however.