Snot Flickerman

Damn it, Dee Dee!

Omelette du fromage.

The only French I know, thanks to Dexter’s Laboratory.

Shades of the Neverhood.

I’m on an instance that only federates upvotes so I don’t really think about downvotes or know if I am getting them.

You don’t necessarily need money, especially in the short term.

If you have kids, you do. Plenty of people in the military with spouses and children.

Probably preaching to the choir but: Corporate Memphis

Which would render the US dollar essentially worthless, resulting in soldiers and LEOs essentially being “unpaid” and no longer willing to support Trump.

Yeah but how the fuck would he pay the troops without, you know, California’s money?

I maintain the quickest way for military and LEOs to drop support for Trump is realizing they aren’t gonna get paid or that their money has become essentially worthless. Either scenario will pit them against him. If they can’t feed their families they will turn, considering it’s an all volunteer military. He would have to instate a harsh draft first to avoid that.

Also looks like both gamemaker and UE have native Linux versions, although gamemakers is still in beta.

Talespire you shouldn’t have any issues with as long as you run it through Steam.

The main thing is that proton is enabled in Linux in Steam out of the box but only for some games. You will need to open your Steam settings and choose the Compatibility tab and choose to enable proton for all games (“Enable Steam Play for all other titles”). That should make it so that any game launched via Steam will run through the proton compatibility layer.

For non-Steam games check out Lutris.

As for Obsidian (not familiar, basing this on quick search), if its the “personal Wikipedia” note taking app they have multiple native Linux versions including a deb and a flatpak.

Discord, as I said elsewhere, use the website or the flatpak.

Do yourself a favor and use either the flatpak of Discord or just use the website since its an Electron app anyway. The *.deb install will force you to endlessly download and manually install new *.deb files to keep using it. A true pain in the ass, there was even a meme about it here on Lemmy recently.

The most important thing: Tell us, the community, what your critical application needs are, and get suggestions for applications to use. So many people jump through fifty hoops because they Google search first and the first thing they try turns out to be deprecated, the second thing they try doesn’t work on their system, the third thing they try has everything they need minus the most important part, the fourth thing they try turns out to be proprietary and half-broken, and so on.

You will not find good solutions just by searching around, you honestly, truly, need fucking nerds in this community who live this shit daily to help you know what the genuine best available solutions are. Otherwise you will spend weeks pounding your head against the keyboard using the wrong solutions, not because of anything you did wrong but because there are often so many different implementations of the same thing that it’s nearly impossible to know which ones are the ones you need for your use case without directly asking some people.

Once you’ve been using it a few years, you’ll be familiar enough with working solutions to keep track of this kind of thing yourself, but trust me, it takes a while. So please do yourself a favor and make a thread asking which applications people suggest for the distribution you’ve chosen to use and what kind of framework to install them from (repository or flatpak). You will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Also, as for keeping your backed up data from Windows on a USB, I think best practice is to always keep that kind of info backed up on an external drive, no matter the OS you use, or whether you plan on switching, so if anything fails, the drive will always still be there and readable (unless the drive fails, of course).

Bonus: you also get to play as a pretty boy.

This is such an important thing to note. The MAGA set aren’t completely oblivious. It’s the same issue with how they don’t trust “mainstream media,” the problem doesn’t lie in accepting that media must be viewed with skepticism and critical thinking, the problem lies with the critical thinking ending at “I can’t trust the mainstream media.”

What the MAGAs are actually practicing is cynicism not skepticism. They have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Because they have realized some sources aren’t always entirely trustworthy, they stop trusting them entirely and instead listen to random jackholes on the internet. It’s actually an abdication of critical thinking. Just flat out rejection instead of reading with a critical eye and skeptical mind.

I think you vastly overestimate the cost of doing such a thing, a lot of nerds could afford to inundate us with AI slop, not just reddit.

At the same time, I think you’re also vastly underestimating the amount of complete jerkoffs on the internet and how much spare time they have to be jerkoffs.

Fucking early ass Neil Cicierega, he has come so far!

redsatyr - copy that floppy

Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters

JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK

shitbuster

This guy Andrew Struthers made cool stuff back in the day, too bad he became a COVID-denying anti-trans bigot. He made his mark with Spiders On Drugs and then used the money he made to make a feature film. Americanface, the resulting film, is one of my favorite films. It really sucks that he became such a dickbag.

Spiders On Drugs

Americanface

Daft Bodies will never get old. Those girls couldn’t dance but they could synchronize. Some of the best of white girls being dorks on the internet that there ever was.

I have a related question: Isn’t hardware-based encryption faster than software-based? Or is that just an assumption on my art?

Boom. Chrome installed. However, why can’t it be in the App Center where it would be available with only one click?

Hey check it out, this guy doesn’t understand that closed source apps aren’t distributed this way! Chromium and Firefox are available, ya dingus!

Control my phone from the desktop – this appears to be doable in KDE desktop but not easily in Gnome desktop environment

scrcpy, man this guy needs someone walking him through better solutions. He’s even trying to use Notepad++ instead of things like Kate.

Hardware support is the Achilles Heel of Linux

Only if you have fancy shit, it seems like. I am a low-end end nerd and I rarely have hardware issues.

Anyway, yeah, people need help from the community first time around or they’re gonna be figuring out what works by piecemeal instead of having quality suggestions.