The greatest suffering in life, that anyone can experience no matter who they are, is unfulfilled expectations. Girl isn’t interested in you, Weather isn’t what you want. Boss didn’t give you a rise etc.

According to Buddhism solution is to stop expecting things of others, of life, of reality. You can only control yourself, expect of yourself if you must.

Perhaps a bit of an exotic philosophy, but I think it applies here nicely.

Foxes are cool. Like cat software on dog hardware.

China institutionalized what USA prefers to make private.

I will be honest with ya, if I looked better in dress than a shirt I would wear it. No Linux needed.

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing!

I wonder how much of that oil is just used to send planes flying.

Not a high bar to pass. Ubuntu installed on a dead rat’s brain would run better than Windows11 on anything.

To be honest… electric field you are surrounded by every day most likely affects you more than position of Saturn on the night sky… But people who claim that new tech is causing medical issues are considered crackpots.

Believing in astrology is much safer.

But think how much money it all made for mysterious shareholders! /s

Media been minimizing crimes for years through the concept of “sensitive topics”. Many users are so used to them they even self-censor. There is no murder or rape in media nowadays, people are simply “unalived” or “having involuntary sex”.

Bar to become enemy of British crown is getting lower and lower…

I’ll be frank with you. As long as my customers are captive on either Apple or Google platforms I can’t do shit.

Regulate advertising space and personalization algorithms.

Yes, it will kill a large portion of current economy, so maybe do it slowly. But generally speaking you should be able to find what you want on the internet, not what advertisers want you to see.

Top be fair, it’s quite likely that half the stories of vampires are really about people like this.

Just imagine, you are visiting someone important. They do anything violent, they aren’t particularly hostile. Just being in their house or around them makes you tired quickly for no apparent reason. You return to your home exhausted and pale.

Yup, must have been a vampire.

I second that. I was initially skeptical about switching to Linux Mint, but every game in my Steam library works perfectly the same as on Windows.

Sitting at home with my kids while my wife takes another course about horses. I think this time is for license to be a judge at competitions.

I like writing stories.

With a little help of AI you can also try indie game dev. My advice - use it as an interactive tutorial and better search engine. You can learn a lot when AI gives you examples and then do your own thing.

Quite nostalgic

Problem is - if you look at how “World Powers” behave, do you really wanna live in such countries?

Which Europeans would just love to invade neighbors like Russia and USA?

Which Europeans would love to deregulate their countries in order to enrich elites like USA?

Or perhaps which Europeans would love to live under state surveillance while their country buys out foreign infrastructure like China?

I use Linux Mint

Steam games work on Linux Mint without issues, or at least I was lucky enough not to have issues so far.

Linux alternatives to popular apps are very good (Libre Office, Inkscape, Gimp etc) and they don’t try to shove AI down my throat or demand subscription.

I also would like to include that in terms of ease of use and interface familiarity Linux Mint looks quite a lot like Windows XP.