Protip for the room: Use a password manager with a unique password for every service. Then when one leaks, it only affects that singular service, not large swaths of your digital life.

The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company

Yeah, this article should compare nVidia’s revenue to the US GDP (both measure of annual production). But we know why they aren’t, as it wouldn’t produce an alarming stat.

The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company

And to be clear, this stat is simply factually wrong. nVidia IS NOT 16% of US output. They sold $165B last year, US GDP is $29.2T. This means the US has tethered… 0.5% of their economic output to one company. Not 16%, zero-point-five-percent.

I agree with the other poster this seems like a hardware issue.

1. Start with a general battery of hardware tests.

• Memtest for memory. One or two errors in a full run is OK, more than that is not. A full run will take a few hours, just run it overnight.
• Furmark for GPU. Look for visual glitches or crashes.
• Prime95 for CPU.

2. If those fail to point out the issue. Swap components into another system. This will allow you to eliminate (or confirm) them as the issue. Example, does this GPU have issues in a different system?

The other poster listed Canada as somewhere that is doing well. Sounds like we got a winner for that question!

I would agree Canada is doing well, but Canada is not a socialist country. It’s a capitalist country with good social services.

Really underlines things when the first country pointed out is capitalist.

In which country has this worked out?

Yeah, from the world’s perspective, this is a problem that solves itself in a few years. Plus, the idea of ‘doing something’ about a country is not a very common action. The most common action is to ignore the BS best you can, focus on building up allies, and focus on building up your own country.

Veritasium did a great video on it. Anything I can say about it will be 10x worse than that video.

So a complicated set of terminal commands and alternatives you need to have memorized ahead of time. That’s definitely the linux solution. You can do it, but no average user would ever be able to when they need it.

As a point of contrast. In Linux Mint you press the eject button. That’s it.

The other guy was getting into more detail for people who want it.

Whelp, time to shut down the whole computer! (Or just yank it and hope you didn’t do anything bad, lol)

Linux Mint has an eject button that allows any cached writes* to finish, prevents new ones from starting, and un-mounts it. It’s actually important to use the eject button as flash drives are slow, and the write cache can obscure the fact that a file isn’t done writing yet.

*Copying a file will add it into the write cache while it writes out to the disk. As soon as it is in the cache, you can use the file as if it was already done copying, including making changes.

Side rant:

To make it worse, SMS is incredibly insecure. Nothing should send you codes via SMS, and if you have the option to use an authenticator app, do that. It’s atrocious so many banks only have SMS as an option.

The really dumb part is, the SMS codes are literally the same authenticator algorithm, but running on their servers and sent to you via an insecure medium.

Signal? No.

I’m running Signal right now on Linux Mint.

Can you run Battlefield 6?

This isn’t even a Windows or Linux thing: Why the hell do you want Saudi Arabia and Jared Kusher* to have kernel-level access to your machine? Why, why is that worth it for just a game?

*I really wish I was joking with this part

Remember when the sales pitch of The Cloud was it would always be online?

I 100% get what you are saying. But I’m also 100% fine with voting with my wallet by not supporting game developers that demand kernel-level access to my machine.

Think about the EA stuff. You install one of their games, and now Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner* have kernel-level access to your machine. Why, why the hell is that worth it for just a game?

*I wish I was joking

Should i unplug everything other than the new drive, and have the installer do it automatically?

This is what I did. Made the installer mostly a bunch of hitting ‘next’.

Plus, I don’t trust Windows to not fuck up my Linux drive, so when I used to dual boot, I would only have one or the other in the computer. Though, haven’t booted into the Windows drive for months now.

The chart is based on ProtonDB, which covers all Steam games.

She must not address you. Basically act as if the other person does not exist.

The MIL has already offered to not engage in politics, take her up on the offer. Batting away the olive branch just comes off as childish.

You don’t have to agree with your family’s politics. It’s basically guaranteed a huge chunk will disagree with you on something. Just don’t talk about politics with them since it upsets you so much.

It’s perfectly reasonable to steer the conversation away from politics if it comes up, and if they insist, particularly at your house, be a bit more direct about not having political discussions over the dinner table.