The piece of paper that companies keep demanding you have, despite their AI black box always filtering you out for hyper specific and arbitrary reasons?

The real answer is they’re probably just lazy, but I wouldn’t blame anyone who doesn’t really value the work that goes into their degrees and diplomas anymore (not that I’m against post-secondary education, though)

Drip or drown, baby 😎

I played around with Mint, Fedora, Debian (Raspbian, really) and Zorin casually when I was still a Windows user. Arch was my first daily driver after switching cold turkey some three years ago, and I’ve been pretty happy with it.

They’re making Gemini, it’s obvious that they wouldn’t even know quality if they saw it!

Not “environment” but “ecosystem.” I was referring to Windows, not friend groups. I guess I wasn’t clear enough.

I hate to bring out the “it’s not that deep”, but it definitely feels like you’re reading a little too far into what I was trying to say. You’ve well and truly lost me here with the “white knight” part, I wasn’t trying to be combative and I’m not sure what “internalized battle” you imagine I have. Sure, I didn’t project OP’s friends as particularly hostile as much as light ribbing, so I easily could have misjudged the situation. Still, this feels like a bit much.

I’m not sure what it is about the internet turns people into such armchair psychologists, but I’m just going to leave things here, wish you well, and move on with my day.

Sorry, “dude bro”? Let me be clearer, then:

What I was trying to say was that toxic ecosystems aren’t important here, and “get new friends” isn’t helpful advice, even as a joke.

All they needed was “here is how you get that controller working” and the issue they were actually concerned about is solved.

They just wanted to make their Xbox controller work, man…

Well, when mangaka are notorious for getting crunched to hell and back it unfortunately makes a lot of sense… I’d rather the industry itself change for the better than force them toward AI though.

I think the Linux thing is pretty common in this area, actually… For example, a lot of Hiby’s cheaper players that aren’t on Android also use plain Linux 4.4 under the hood, I believe

Never liked him much as a person, so hopefully it kicks him in the ass sooner rather than later

Hey now, don’t threaten me with a good time!

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I was hoping for yesterday but true, we really are halfway done aren’t we…

Mid-2026? How about right now? :)

I don’t think that went well for Grok…

Thank you for creating localized and un-Japan-ified content consistent with government-mandated guidelines!

They aren’t closed ecosystems to the extent that consoles are. PC gaming isn’t just Steam, and you’re generally free to do what you’d like with the files once they’re on your computer.

You can chase sales, modify and fix games, play online without a subscription, use your preferred controller, buy DRM free (or bypass DRM if you so choose), share and revive old games, etc.

I doubt I’ve covered everything, and (respectfully) I’m genuinely surprised that so many people still ask this question.

I’m making a note here: huge success!

Instructions unclear, now someone’s hosting an execution-themed costume party downtown while blasting Childish Gambino Bonfire mashups

Buck-a-beer (low adoption and discontinued, nobody could afford to make beer that cheap), free license plate stickers (costs the province 1.1B per year to waive that fee), and tough on Trump! (he folds on that last one every time the US threatens another national tariff)