I had a workmate develop a chronic illness after an infection of COVID, and he had to leave under hardship. People that hung out with him as best mates for years stopped talking to him in a matter of days.

In communist North Korea, over a million died from COVID, 45,000 die a year from lack of health insurance, and 200,000 die annually from poverty.

Capitalism seems to be going great in 2023, I don't know where you're getting this from.

Professional wrestling was real

I sent him a few 3 message to see how he was doing. NGL we weren't super tight before COVID, we never hung out outside of work, and people not masking around me really drove a wedge between us. I'm trying hard not to justify what happened, but who knows maybe I am a little bit.

The lab leak theory never had any evidence.

Sorry to be overly harsh. I'll edit my comment.

I know that I was almost an adult when Harry Potter came out, but I really tried to get into them as everyone else loved them, but the writing was flat af.

I've been using Mint OS for gaming and it's been perfectly fine. I probably can't play some burning edge, this year games, but everything else has been fine. And I'm free from Windows garbageware.

Honestly it's cool. Personally I try to be very objective, scientific, and factual about stuff, but I've 100% been wrong about things in the past. I think the measure of a person is their ability to admit a mistake in the face of irrefutable evidence against their POV.

Also non scientific bodies have been chiming in to promote the theory. With the whole anti-China thing going on, it's gotten a lot more traction that it should have. If the superstructure wants this idea to become mainstream, it can and did.

You like your free Android kernel? How about your free browser. Or MF'er, do you like this lemmy shit that you're using?!?!?!? What about all the network architecture so you don't have to pay dozens of owners so that you can send a packet of data from your the open-source router software to the Linux server that is hosting your game.

Make no mistake Microsoft has been at war with open source since its business model requires people to pay for software. It would destroy open source if it could, it it probably will after it acquires enough enough market share.

There are better vaccines and antivirals coming out of the research pipeline. There are generics for Paxlovid coming on the market. In the short-term, mask and ventilate.

NGL, I play games off of Steam, which is easy mode. You can run the Windows game off of Proton, which is Valve's program for Windows to Linux gaming. Did you try right clicking on the game in Library, going to Properties, then Compatibility tab, then choosing Proton. Almost always the newest version of Proton (8.0-3) will do the trick. Rarely the experimental version or an older version is better.

Adding "gamemoderun %command%" [without the speech marks] to the launch options usually improves performance.

There's a bit of learning curve, but you can do it, comrade.

NGL I saw the title and didn't expect much from this. Good effort post, way to change my mind on this topic.

Weird way to avoid the Epstein island, charter school proponent, weird bullshit in Africa guy, literally at war with open source guy discussion.

Hey I'm sorry that I made an abbreviation for a naughty word.

Intel is on the BDS list though

I know very very little about India, but it seems like the country is going the neoliberal route of Amerika, bringing some limited wealth, but a heap ton of poverty and stress/competition for those who do have a job. I admire India for their educational system, how hard working and responsibly their citizens are, and how much their country has grown since independence (a difficult feat).

I know that not every Indian is a BJP member, but that's gotta be embarrassing frustrating as MAGA is in the US. I've seen some center-right Indian friends go hard right these last few years. This seems to be everywhere now, though, not just India.

Don't at me, this is from a place of profound ignorance.

Edit: changed a word so I don't come off like a racist prick

As someone who never used outside apps (maybe I should have), the mobile app was OK a year ago but it's barely usable now. I'm unsure if their code base is falling apart or they're not paying their server cost. But feck it's bad.

I actually gave up getting Roblox to work on Linux. It had more issues than most games.

I've been playing both Oxygen Not Included and Celeste regularly.

I was a huge Tom Clancy fan as a teen. Thank fucking God I grew out of that shit, or otherwise I'd be a massive chud. The worst fucking part of his books is the way he writes women and relationships, every woman needs to be rescued, and they have no personality of their own.

I'll let you guys make the decision about what to do. At least do let me comment that supporting Intel is supporting genocide.

I type this on a 1 year old desktop with an Intel chip. So hey, we're all learning.

I'm not very knowledgeable about this sorta thing. I'm just gonna say that modding games with the Flatpak version of Steam is way easier.

Came here to say this

Are you really though?

WHY IS THERE NO HENRY KISSINGER EMOJIS?!?!?!?!?!

It's a bit unfair and unreasonable, but I try avoid mistakes that are very obvious to management. Like coming in late, not finishing reports that that checked, missing deadlines, etc. I'm not suggesting it, but half-assing something that won't be noticed is safer.

It's a bit shit, but I'd try to be extra good when starting a new position, ya. Being nice and agreeable in the beginning is helpful too.

I'm literally sorry that our system is like this.

Fuck Bill Barr. His commentary on Bill Maher was centrist at best. I'll never forgive him for the other fucked up shit he said, or at least until he actually apologises (spoiler: he won't).

Is Lemmy going to allow Intel posts and forget that Intel is on the top of the list for BDS?

@AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml sorry to tag the top mod