This is awesome! I love the idea of a community-driven, “by us-for us” website resource that’s not just a cluttered forum (don’t get me wrong, comms are helpful but can get bogged down quickly).

Couple questions:

1.) How would one go about contributing?

2.) What types of contributions are you seeking? E.g., writing, editing, research, outreach, media production, moderation, etc. and one-off vs. consistent contributions, and

3.) Are there specific topics you’re looking to cover/have covered?

I see one article about gym-going which is great but I see other categories in the menu, and hashtags which are a bit confusing for navigation and understanding. I’m sure this will get polished over time of course but this project has a good deal of potential and I’d love to see it succeed. /gen

Well wipe my ass backwards and call me biscuit; I have been informed today.

Everything, including:

• giving a shit about the customer and having them permanently own their own games, even DRM-free like GOG?

• Not forcing online connectivity to access the library?

• Not shoving ads and spyware into the rest of the Amazon platform?

• Appealing ethically by paying all employees a living wage?

• Prioritizing innovation in expanding native Linux compatibility?

🤔

This is actually why I only drink iced coffee. Hot drinks get left in the graveyard dimension of my brain and are too time sensitive

Yeah in the US, at least on employment forms, ADHD is classified as a disability.

Not that it’s wise to admit to it or that you’d get accommodations anyway but still. “Differently abled” my ass. /rant

Provides sick ass snacks for community sacrifice night

I had to look that up to fully understand it.

It didn’t even occur to me that the recursive naming was a math or logic thing. I’m just happy to have freeware/copyleft/etc licensing because fuck corporations ¯\(ツ)/¯

The anarchist in me wants to agree with you but my brain is having a hard time parsing what you’re saying.

One can only hope they’ll have the mind/willingness to.

Yeah I can hear the slurs from here.

Imagine trying to throw a lawsuit at a rodeo for video game patent infringement

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had so much trouble with Linux. I understand the frustration that comes with Unix based OSes especially after being a heavy Windows user for years.

I did a bit of searching on your profile and saw you’re dual-booting with Windows on the same hard drive. I personally had issues with trying to set that up myself (Windows is a finicky, jealous b****). My own solution was installing my distro of choice onto a separate hard drive - if you can eventually do that I recommend it.

I know you’re getting a lot of flak for your post but it’s good to see honest opinions from people who genuinely want to try Linux but aren’t necessarily the same level of hyper-nerd as the typical demographic here.

Having information from a wider opinion pool will help in understanding how to get Linux to more of the population - but that’s a side tangent.

It’s encouraging to see that you are still open to trying in the future and taking a break from it can help you clear your head and come back with fresher eyes.

Unfortunately I don’t have much experience with NVIDIA drivers, and probably a similar amount of troubleshooting as Mint but I’ve found EndeavourOS to be friendlier to a middle-upper tech/gamer use case. Mint, for me, seemed cold and “office”-y and didn’t work well for me as I don’t only use my browser and word processor.

That said, distros are an almost ridiculously personal choice and part of that is trial and error. If you haven’t gotten the chance I recommend test driving a couple other distros in an Oracle VM (for user-friendliness) so you can decide what you like the feel of before committing to an install again, if and when you feel ready.

Good luck and godspeed until then.

I don’t have any advice for this exact problem but if it’s any consolation Firefox has randomly gotten offended at my video drivers and bricked my build. Multiple times. I use Librewolf when I can now.

That is hilarious though, sending frustrated IT vibes your way in both empathy and hopes it’ll help you reach the critical mass of superstition for the problem to fix itself before you have to threaten to take a hammer to it.

I deleted messenger once I finally convinced the people I give a shit about to switch over to safer platforms. Hadn’t posted on or touched FB in years at that point though. That also prompted me to move to Lemmy (my only real feed-based media consumption); that plus the constant influx of doomscrolling bullshit after the latest US election.

I don’t “use” Xitter and haven’t for many, many years aside from news for legitimate emergencies that had no other alternative. Stopped using IG after they tried to copy TikTok.

TL;DR: Enshitification + increasing threat to human rights

Far more positive and civil; people actually engage in their replies instead of the stream of recycled quips. Bad faith discussions usually get called out as such; less astroturfing.

Small-ish forums probably help with that too since users run in the same circles and there’s less overall “noise.” It’s also much more imperative to comment on posts since there may not be much engagement otherwise.

Iirc one of his wives reported him having a copy of Hitler’s speeches on his nightstand.

Found an article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html

Mr. Trump has long expressed interest in the most notorious dictator of the past century, Adolf Hitler, whose Nazis also used that phrase. In a 1990 interview, Mr. Trump said he had a copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” although his first wife Ivana Trump and the friend who gave him the book said it was actually “My New Order,” a collection of Hitler speeches.

Only thing missing is a CRT to make that warm staticky smell. Looks fantastic though