LostWanderer

This is why I voted for Kamala, as it would’ve reduced harm for a little while…Long enough to figure out an effective counter. Right now, I am using my voice as best as possible to reduce further harm (with the Big Bad Bill coming into effect soon) I dread losing my insurance and wasting away because untreated it’s a guarantee. Given that I live in a mostly Red State, I could be one of the 17 million affected, or spared because I work part-time… If there are elections in the future, I will be voting with harm reduction in mind every time. Unless America becomes a doomed Fascist Nation which devours itself from within.

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EndeavourOS, CachyOS, and archinstall do lower the barrier to entry for Arch itself, which means that there may be really fresh users (who should probably not be on Arch) using it. As wild as it sounds, those Arch and its distros get recommended to new users that aren’t technically inclined.

For the seasoned Arch users, non-critical breaks don’t feel as serious, since they can fix him. It’s just the new users wandering in a dark place without light (a place they shouldn’t be encouraged to wander, without knowledge), that these problems are serious or can be made worse by said user misunderstanding how to apply fixes. Or prevent issues in the future.

I agree that there are likely very few serious breakages not caused by a user happening on Arch, just the potential of them happening (anything made by human hands occasionally will suffer this).

In my time of using Linux, to my knowledge, I can’t recall a kernel panic. I’ve had my boot record break, graphics drivers simply not want to load (that was fixable, just annoying), or GNOME Display Manager crashout hard related to a memory leak. I use Ubuntu and Fedora KDE these days, at most there is an occasional bug that doesn’t cause major issues. Just little annoyances that can be solved with an upcoming update or using the terminal.

That’s the thing, just because there is a breakage doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to fix it. It just becomes a cycle of breakage and repair…Arch goes through cycles of being temporarily broken and back to working just fine. This is merely the nature of rolling release (part of the reason why I am not a rolling release distro).

Naturally, if one has the skill to fix Arch, it would be of no real concern. It might be annoying, but it seems that you can overcome those temporary disruptions caused by introduced bugs

Highly accurate, but, even if you fix him…An update will break him, as Arch Linux moves fast as hell!

That was the whole point of Project 2025, to basically gut the whole Government and make it so that Republicans were in power; for as long as the USA is still a nation. I don’t know how far they are willing to take it as the discontent is growing, and that might be the spark that ignites the barrel of gunpowder. That’s one outcome, the other is Republicans burning this whole nation down with bad decisions and blaming a long dead Biden for it.

Ugh, this makes me totally furious…In a way I can’t describe. I’ve rallied hard against this bill and got others to do so as well, yet here we are getting royally fucked, by those who only care about the rich bastards in this cursed country. It’s going to plan with Project 2025 that everyone was warned about. Time to up the grassroots participation and hopefully get these fuckwads out of office (if there are going to be elections).

You’re welcome! Yeah, I’ve been in that boat before, reestablishing a healthier connection to games. Games to pass the time in a way nothing else can, especially if you have a dopamine/serotonin deprived brain…It might feel like he can’t stop at the moment, eventually, with gentle, consistent, and firm effort it will be possible. Getting him to the point where he can associate time passing pleasantly with you and other people in his life; this will go a long way of repairing not only your relationship, but, provide him with stronger interpersonal connections.

I feel that you need to gently, but firmly, state your feelings on this matter to him. Reassure him that you don’t want him to completely stop playing games, just that you would enjoy having one on one time with him for at least a few hours a day. As part of a relationship, is reinforcing that connection which was initially formed by dating, and building upon it. To me, his fixation of gaming screams escapism…As it is easier to avoid dealing with discomfort than to face it head-on (I speak from experience on that matter). He’s not a bad dude, like you said, he is fighting (or avoiding) serious internal struggles.

Microsoft is literally scorching earth in their Xbox Gaming Division…Gotta chase those short term profits, I guess. 😡

More bad news from Xbox, I was hoping they’d cut Phil Spencer lose instead…They need a brand-new lead to make Xbox awesome again. I can’t say that I am surprised, though, as this game has been in dev for 7 years. However, there should’ve been something that could be salvaged and made into a viable game.

ROFL I can’t spot the difference either…This is valid.

Disgusting, America is going down a very dark path.

Yep, we need to make sure everyone knows, and hopefully we can energize people to vote against the Republican menace. So we can get energy behind some solid candidates that have the people’s interests at heart!

Oh trust me, I know the reality of what is going on. This is why I vote in every election: local, state, and national because that is what really matters. Change can only happen if we participate in all the elections possible, which I have certainly done regardless of the outcome. As apathy and losing hope is going to let those corporate and ultra wealthy donor backed candidates win.

I am aware of their lack of majority and inability to filibuster a reconciliation bill. While these actions seem useful, it is merely born of desperation. Regardless, these are at least steps that can be taken to minimize the massive oncoming harm.

There is a reason behind this lack of majority though: they’ve failed to energize voters, they’ve let the cult of personality Trump win over reason. They’ve lost seats because of a lack of attention, and complacency. If they hadn’t, we’d be in a very different situation right now.

The few nominees that had a chance to keep Democrats in control of vital offices, were either sidelined or actively fought against, Zohran Kwame Mamdani is a recent example of a candidate for a Mayoral position that the DNC pit a controversial sex pest Andrew Cuomo against…Even dusting off Bill Clinton to back Andrew, but at least Zohran is still in the running, ATM. I can only hope young candidates like him can help shift the political landscape for the better in the future. If America can endure, at least.

Yeah, they are enabling this hostile takeover of government by not actively fighting against it. Even voting yes for some harmful legislation as the good little accelerationists they are, for donor daddies whispering in their ears.

ROFL Democrats are pretty useless these days…I’ve been calling my representatives, sending letters, and generally being more politically involved to make sure this terrible reconciliation bill dies in a fire. I hope to oust the republicans who represent Kansas too. They are so cursed and incompetent, spineless and weak in the face of donor daddies telling them what to do.

Oh no, this game is going to bomb so freaking hard…I can’t wait for the shitstorm that is going to go down over this!