you're being pointlessly pedantic. Initialisms are also considered acronyms by most defimitions and by common use.

its sad that you're so closed-minded and brainwashed to think "communism bad" that you wouldnt even consider the possibility of this being true

absurd take

ah yes, one should expect people to just magically find your blog. Not trusting the site is your choice, but calling out honest, transparent self promotion is ridiculous. The alternative is lying and pretending to be somone else, that's whats actually gross.

temu is a blatant scam even without the spyware. its sad so many people fall for it just so they can buy more cheap garbage.

in my opinion you shouldn't guage quality of life by how advanced the devices we have are. i dont feel like having a high-tech smartphone provides me much happiness, it's just a necessity for participating in modern society.

the whole point is that its not in a terminal. its a gui frontend.

its called no stupid questions mate, no need to be a dickhead. as other people have said op probably isnt a native speaker and lots of other languages don't capitalize titles the way we usually do in english.

funny how peoples experience differs. Been using linux for years, and never had something break in a major way. I understand your point but would encourage you to try again someday.

I dont have a chance to check specifics but if theres no way to do it using the gui you can try the xrandr command. it has lots of options for screen positioning and the like.

Starting with a blank slate is so refreshing. It takes time to build everything up from scratch and I understand that you can get a great experience out of the box with other distros, but I love the simplicity of not having any bullshit I didn't install myself.

you might be able to fix webpages telling you you're outdated by changing your useragent string.

Good on you for donating to kde and gnome! In case you don't know, there is an option in discord settings to quit whenever the window is closed.

if only...

i would assume that thats a placeholder

switch to linux and the Windows key becomes the Super key, unused in shortcuts by any application and so you can map it to whatever you want. super useful.

my boss flat out told me my adhd causes a lot of problems (in the context of a performance evaluation) still not sure how to take that one...

sounds like something is going seriously wrong, you should never really be having to deal with this stuff (ive been using arch and the AUR for several years and never have). Im not sure it its a steam deck thing or what. Only thing I can say is make sure to always run sudo pacman -Syu before you install a new package.

i deleted my gui file manager and text editor. worked pretty well

if you'd read it you'd see the author has no problem with people who choose ideology over functionality, only people that try to force others to.

thats good for you. do you have to force yourself to do those things or do they still interest you, just not as much as before? For me it feels like once the hyperfixation fades you couldnt pay me a million bucks to touch that hobby again in any capacity until the special interest comes back.

i think the high arch use is mostly steam deck users running steamos.

and i would've figured it out, too, if not for me getting bored and starting another project within 48 hours.

im not saying theres no difference between pronouncing each lettwer and pronouncing the whole thing like a word, just that both are generally considered acronymns so the correction was unnecessary.

linux is often called a unix but it is only unix-like. It's not officially unix cerrified the way macos, hp-ux, and others are.

its hard coming from discord when you cant see messages from the past. do people just leave their client open 24/7. ive always wanted to use irc but never managed to find a room that had any activity

allow me to introduce you to the pragmatic and idologically consistent viewpoint, that human creativity is unique and not comparable to ai creativity. Humans draw from experiences and memories, and have a unique perspective that is introduced to their art, while ai just churns through thousands of images and tries to replicate them. Dont assume that just because the results are impressive, that ai creativity is analogous to human creativity.

Dont fool yourself with this logic. i thought this too until I realized that humans all have a unique perspective, and an entire life of experiences to draw from. Humans dont just look through tens of thousands of images, internalize them, and spit out something similar to them like AI does. it is just not comparable the way it might seem at first glance.

creativity isnt about looking at a million existing art pieces and continuing the pattern. sure, humans can do something similar to that that, but thats all that AI can do. AI can immitate a human artist but it cannot have real creativity because it lacks memories, experiences, views, perspectives, that a human would use when creating something new. I'm not just saying this because I want it to be true, i'm saying it because it is true. Awe at the exploding capabilities of AI may be clouding your judgement.

my impression is that grapheneos is only private and secure compared to regular android. likewise, any linux distro is going to be secure and private when compared to windows.

seconded on not aligning things. its the whole source of the problem in the first place and doesnt even serve a purpose