Notably there was clearly no “nobody won” option, so who do you fuckin’ pick

A small (big) loan (tax-exempt gift) of 1 (fifteen) million dollars

As a daily Fedora user, this is annoying. I totally support the push for open-source, but enabling RPM Fusion on new installs to do standard stuff is a royal pain in the butt that will immediately turn off new users.

For my sins, I do dual boot Windows 10. Though with wine and proton I reckon I can get ~80-90% of games to work.

I’d love to go 100% Linux, and I do my best to only buy games that support Linux. But there are sadly some old games and multiplayer games with friends that I still can’t quite convince to work.

Always gonna note too that Google Chrome (and chromium + derivatives to a lesser extent) kneecaps adblock plugins so that up to 50% fewer ad domains are blocked, blocklists are out of date, many in-page ads can’t be caught, it’s slower, and invisible trackers can bypass it.

The other 7.8 billion of us on this planet would have the biggest objection to “lbs”

Honestly, best of luck and it would be amazing if you succeeded. Sadly I think actively supporting this requires a lot more faith in electoralism than I have.

I accepted after the Corbyn era that neither the Labour party nor the media care to actually hold politicians they like responsible for anything, including popular demand. Get 100k signatures and you’ll get what you always get, a lame excuse and then you’ll be ignored. Or even if Starmer came out today and said “Lying is okay”, would that stop a Labour win? I doubt it.

I remember them telling us covid was low risk, that it would be contained, and not to panic.

I agree a lot public health management really fucked up in a big way, and we could have handled even the initial response a lot better. But in their defense, these statements had been true of every other overblown novel contagion in the past century. In the past couple decades there have been a few diseases which were touted as the new global pandemic and they came to very little (on the grand scale, not saying they weren’t serious for the people who suffered them). I also agree the mask shit was totally mishandled.

I think it’s impractical to call for a full-blown reaction to every new disease out there. Unfortunately then reacting to stuff when it does become big will take at least some time.

Personally wouldn’t currently advise anyone to “prepare” for it in any way beyond how they should already be as standard - Just always have a few days worth of canned food, supplies and masks.

While I am usually resistant to change, I remain ever vigilant to try not be that XKCD guy

I always identified maybe too much with Grit from Advance Wars. I too am lazy, fond of silly needless figures of speech, am reluctantly working for others, very good at strategising indirect solutions and very bad at direct conflict. Now I just need to smoke and get a long coat and I’ll be complete.

It’s already been proven that piracy is a causal factor in more sales. Any self-interested dev should be promoting piracy of their game.

Windows -> Fedora

Been almost 10 years and no thoughts of changing. What can I say? I lucked out first time.

Whenever I’m asked for help by IT colleagues, I never say I’ll help solve an issue. I just say “Sure, I’ll come help stare at it for a while” - it’s the most I can really promise.

“How are we meant to know not to treat and pay you like dirt unless you speak to us first HM?”

Yep, it’s coming. England is already half-way there honestly.

Corbyn’s final form is what we need

P U N I S H E D C O R B Y N

Though I like the idea in theory, the honest reality is any party would get so crushed by the media even harder than Corbyn’s time as leader, to the point it wouldn’t have a hope in hell. This may be the best small thing he can do.

I agree it’s not a huge deal, but I do think it further adds credence against the tired arguments of “Anti-Israel = Anti-jewish”

Personally, I’m still hoping for Amanda