The vast majority of the US population is still going along with him with nary a peep, if he didn’t have the support the elections implied, I’d expect way more pushback.

Kaiju preservation society is written start to finish without gendering the protagonist and is full of queer people, so…

he seems to be a descent guy

We’re not talking about videogames here!

I use it on Linux. Crashy but it works.

When I used DDG, the !g bang to search on Google became wired in my brain to “get me better results, please”, so much that I sometimes tried using it in Google search too.

In Italy routers provided by Fastweb nowadays come with integrated Alexa…

That goes for the whole article, if you swapped the genders the outrage would be unfathomable

So men who seek AI partners are painted as losers whose situation is mostly their own, or society’s, fault, while women doing the same is men’s fault.

I’m all for improving everyone’s behavior, in and out of relationships, but this doesn’t strike me as constructive messaging.

I’m not as negative as others are in regards to European armed forces, but you really shouldn’t count on our aircraft carriers. They’re kinda ridiculous.

Dude, dial down the hostility

Bazzite mostly just works in good part because it’s based on Fedora, which mostly just works.

Nah, the precision Apple touchpads had 10 years ago still is unmatched today by Windows or Linux, but I’m afraid that’s not a software issue

It has a connector on the front for a potential color camera

Assuming you don’t know anything about Linux desktop or server:

• Be patient.
• Linux has Desktop Environments, for short “DE” like GNOME and KDE, whose purpose is to provide a graphical interface and useful utilities.
• Software on Linux is mostly installed through package managers, so you don’t search the web for an installer, you search the web if you need to figure out what software you want to install (alternativeto.net is a good place to start if you already know a similar software), then you install it through your package manager. Some applications won’t be in your distro’s repository, you may want to try installing a flatpak, on KDE you use Discover for that, on GNOME you use GNOME Software. As a last resort you can use AppImages, those are downloaded from the web, ideally from the developer’s GitHub or whatever.
• Linux has excellent hardware support but it’s a good idea to do a web search when you’re buying new hardware, especially peripherals; manufacturers often don’t write drivers for Linux, so the community has to pick up the slack, usually it’s no problem, but sometimes it is.
• Linux users can be very opinionated… Think with your own head, only you truly understand your needs.
• The terminal can be scary but it’s very useful. Once you’re settled in, try to learn a bit about it.
• Conditional on the previous point: if you have more than one computer, learning ssh can be very useful to control one from the other, exchange small files, etc.
• ssh and rsync especially are excellent for transferring files safely and without errors, but they’re encrypted, so they have overhead. File shares on Linux are mostly NFS, which is complicated and not widespread, or Samba (SMB/CIFS), which is Microsoft’s protocol reimplemented, this one is easier and usually integrated in DEs, but it has caveats sometimes, so maybe try to set one up before you need it, it’s not fun to deal with in a hurry.
• Most DEs have system managers to check resource usage and processes (programs), but most people prefer to use terminal utilities like htop, or more recently, the snazzy btop, they can be installed through your package manager.
• Linux doesn’t have drive letters, it has a file structure that starts at “/”, different mass storage devices can be mounted in arbitrary locations in this structure. For example your personal files will be under /home/yourusername, this could be the same partition as everything else, or it could be a separate one, or a separate drive. If you have a non-removable drive where you store only let’s say Games, you could very well “mount” it under /home/yourusername/Games. This is very useful in some cases, and something that Windows I think implemented but still doesn’t use. Removable drives are usually mounted by the DE and end up in /var/run/media or whatever.

He’s had quite a lot of last straws

Can’t wait to try this on the Steam Frame

Yet if prices somehow go back to sanity, people will flock back to nVidia like they always did

It’s the level his voters understand

You wish

Your numbers are after tax but I wouldn’t necessarily assume people are paying over 50% of their income in taxes.

Eh, to be fair that’s not so unlikely. Here in Italy I pay about 33% of my income in taxes directly from my salary, as in I don’t ever receive that money, then you’ve got 22% VAT on most purchases excluding food which is 4-5% and energy at 10%.

Energy doesn’t include fuel taxes, which are about 30-40% taxes I think (it’s complex)… Of course if you own a car you are also forced to pay a yearly circulation tax, depending on the engine power and other things, might go from 150€ to… well, a lot, but let’s say 600€ if we exclude extreme cases. And you’re obligated to have insurance as well, that’s another complex cost to calculate and it carries its own taxes. And bi-yearly (2 years) mandatory maintenance and emissions check, that’s not much but it’s still mostly taxes IIRC.

Then there’s lots of small things, public broadcasting fee for our state television, 90€, local taxes for specific reasons, let’s there’s something in your local environment that requires constant upkeep, if you smoke, tobacco costs are mostly taxes (1 packet of cigarettes is 5€).

Do public services count as taxes? Like schools, trash disposal, etc?

If you add it all up I think it can get to 50%.