And seeing braindead boomers brush it off as “it’s only summer” is soul-shattering.

Because it was the only way for the Nazi Elon Musk to effectively launder money and glaze over his repeated failures in a way which still preserves his wealth.

. . . operated by Malta Air, a subsidiary of Ryanair, Europe’s largest budget carrier.

Ah, makes sense, windows on those flights cost extra.

If you think that requiring interviews over voice chat with multiple random people that ask dumb questions like where do you live and what you do for living and laugh at your accent, sorry that’s not goofy that’s bordering on abuse and not accountability.

Which tracker was this? I’ve been on private trackers for years and never once had to go on a voice chat, definitely not with MAM.

It’s a more streamlined version of the Granny Gossip Network found in most European countries.

The movie id is an IMDB id which goes to https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402854

Whilst I want to celebrate that there is finally big pushes into renewable energy, it’s endlessly frustrating that it always takes a war or massive economic collapse for capitalism to decide that it’s a problem worth solving.

I wouldn’t say that apps have killed dating, more that there are fewer public third spaces to run into a potential partner coupled with far too many people wanting a quick and easy fix (like an app) for finding such places; the times I’ve seen people throw their hands up and declare it impossible to meet people because they find it difficult to google things in their area is concerning.

Tzimisce is still doing well, I see.

(Keikaku means plan)

Because companies have a legal responsibility to increase value to shareholders; morals don’t enter into it.

But he experienced what it feels like to be at the opposite end of the supply chain when he found the video of himself and his girlfriend “Emily” - and he no longer finds gratification in this content.

Oh, now he decides to have empathy.

Personally, I cancelled Netflix due to a drought of content I actually wanted to watch and things disappearing from it with no notice. This combined with releasing shows weekly or one ‘part’ now and another in a month (so I have to stay subscribed) made it so it couldn’t compete with piracy anymore.

parents can be morons so don’t give them that excuse.

I promise you that they will still find a way to fuck it up. Badly.

Think about how many additional phones you could buy each year if you cancelled your Netflix subscription and didn’t eat as much avocado on toast.

In the case of online magazine equivalents though I really don’t get it. What is there to sell off? Shouldn’t any potential long term profits be priced in at the point they get bought out? If the company has tangible assets like offices, couldn’t they just sell those without firing anyone and have people work from home?

Oh god no! The tangible assets like buildings and land only increase in value, you don’t get rid of those. You sell it to a holding company and lease it back to the original company for a profit (and probably several other companies who want space, too).

You then strip operations down to the bare minimum. A couple of writers at most and they’re only really there to make sure the automated AI article generator doesn’t accidentally publish a napalm recipe or some shit. You want to run it with as few people as possible to still generate enough content to run ads. Utilise your fanbase to submit content that you can run ads on because they’ll do it for free or a chance to win a t-shirt or some shit. No fans? No problem! Rip everything off relevant subreddits or other sites doing the exact same thing. Make up unsourced slop to piss people off because it generates engagement like you wouldn’t believe. More eyeballs, more ad revenue.

And you make damn sure that the company never makes a profit on paper so you don’t have to pay the relevant taxes. You made $50k more than you expected? Better pay a consultant (you) $40k to find out why. Then increase that rent by $15k.

It’s very easy, if a game doesn’t have invasive data thieving anticheat, then it will run on Linux, otherwise it won’t.

Can you be clearer about this? The majority of games I play on PC are online multiplayer.

So I’d need to check that site for every game I want to play? Presumably if there isn’t a user report for whatever distro I’m using (how do you go about choosing one? Guessing from your comment that some work better with certain components than others) the only option is to buy the game in the hope of it working whilst preparing for X hours of faffing about to get it to work?

Protondb also looks to be focused on Steam, I’m guessing it’s like MacOS where if it’s a game not on Steam then you’re shit out of luck if there isn’t a Linux specific version?

Gaming on Linux is better than it ever has been, but there are some games that just won’t run on Linux.

Is there any way of telling which ones will and won’t run on Linux? How does running them on Linux differ from Windows?

Avoid Nvidia graphics due to driver complexities.

Well, I’m fucked if that’s the case as both my machines have Nvidia GPUs.

I think more people, myself included, would be willing to consider Linux we weren’t met with people being complete assholes when asking for help or direction.