Not my responsibility to fix your weaponized helplessness. Do something about it or whine impotently. No one is coming to save you.

Okay. Then do nothing and let it happen I guess. Those are your two options. Do something about it, or do nothing and let it happen.

What do you think you’re supposed to do in this situation? Get rid of the fascists.

There’s secret police kidnapping people in the streets, he talks about running for another term, human rights are being rolled back constantly. They are actively rigging future elections and the Supreme Court and congress are giving him more and more power.

We’re already there.

My childhood bedroom basically.

Heartwarming! Broke students who can’t afford places to live allowed to stay in their cars in the parking lot!

It’s… Not really a scam so much as a thing for weird cranks who think the apocalypse is coming. If you have gold then you have gold. And gold will likely hold its value for a long time because it’s a rare resource. Unless we find some alchemy that turns common materials into it, it will likely stay that way. So if you buy gold at market value then you can always sell it later at market value, and that market value is almost guaranteed to be higher than when you bought it.

The people who are really into it though are the weird cranks. And I’d imagine certain stocks or even bonds are arguably better returns in the same time span.

I really like Rabi-ribi

My recommendation is to just stop using it and everyone else be damned.

You have 800 friends, do you actually talk to all 800 of them regularly? Are they actually friends or just people you kinda know who interact with you on Facebook?

I’d say text your actual friends or talk to them on whatever chat app you prefer, and ignore everyone else.

The thing is this is a legitimate problem for the overall success of this. And the success of Linux as a general gaming OS. If people can’t play their staples like CoD or fortnite or anything else with this problem, then that’ll be enough to decide not to get this. Most people here probably don’t care, but we’re not the majority. And a lot of us probably aren’t in the market for this anyway.

To be fair, I don’t watch either of those youtubers. So I had no knowledge of this.

Well we have a guy who created the Linux kernel… and a shitty youtuber.

If a game isn’t easy to play with a controller then I’m probably just not going to play it with a controller to begin with honestly, track pads or no. If I have to mess with stuff in desktop mode on my steam deck then I use the pads but otherwise, I haven’t really found them useful.

Do what you find morally best in that situation. Loyalty to a nation is honestly stupid to begin with. Use your brain and think. And if that means staying out of it, then stay out of it.

Smart answer: put it all towards my student loans

Assuming I need to like, actually pay for a good or service… New computer, new computer chair, gifts for Christmas, fancy digital piano, a couple gift cards to a restaurant I like, a handful of games, some nice but kinda expensive clothes, some VSTs…

If I quickly math all this out with generous assumptions for the price… That still puts me well under 20k. I dunno, I’ll go eat at a favorite restaurant of mine and tip the waitstaff whatever is left.

Sadly I’ve got too many programs that don’t work on linux, or don’t work well. And an old synthesizer that I can’t imagine would work on linux unless I made a driver for it myself, and that’s a bit beyond me.

I don’t know if it’ll be VR but the short version is there’s a lot of code in the source 2 updates that directly point to the development of a new half-life game.

With the fact there’s apparently surprisingly reasonable evidence of a new half life game, I wonder if that’s likely to get announced when they give these a release date. I could see them bundling it with the steam machines at least. Assuming the rumors turn out to be true.

Sure. I have no attachment to my last name.

Environmental issues aside, it’s just kinda useless for anything I’d want to use it for. It’s unreliable for even basic research so I’d have to double check anything it’d spit out, so I might as well just skip it and do the research myself to begin with. I don’t care to chat with it or generate images/videos. As a new hobby programmer, I’ve been warned against using it for that from people I know who do it regularly. According to them, it’s not very good at debugging, and the code it writes tends to be bad even when it works.

So, it just seems like a waste of time.