I don’t buy computers from wax figures.

Both the wind appendages and the plants look like they belong to the sunflower family fwiw.

Furry stuff at the bottom are wind dispersal appendages that are modified as the flower is fertilized and dehisces. They are attached to the seeds so they can be carried by the wind.

Edit: as you have already said, sorry.

Ok.

Sounds like you got malware.

🤔

What an asshole. Musk too.

The rich and corporate elite will do everything to frame the solutions as catastrophic problems because they cannot see anything other than the status quo as viable to their own interests.

Kook, Coco

Not the Onion material.

Quality of Life measurement as an economic measure instead of GDP.

Yeah it has changed over time so the question remains.

A Polish resistance fighter willingly infiltrated Auchswitz in 1940 and broke out in 1943 with incontrovertible evidence. They just weren’t taken seriously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki#Auschwitz

Also worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_of_the_Holocaust_in_Nazi_Germany_and_German-occupied_Europe

13 years ago The Verge constantly hyping “The Quantified Self” has resulted in this.

There is a great book by a journalist who was fired by WashPo to being “political” about their identity.

The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity by Lewis Raven Wallace.

It is excellent and details why having a view from no perspective is damaging to minorities and others with disabilities, etc. We must have principles and speak about those in journalism. If we stand for nothing, we default to the status quo.

Thanks, I didn’t know that.

That’d work too but booting into game mode first would be a bit of a curve ball for many newbs.

If the recommendations for Mint do not work, I’d try a different distribution with an easier path to install nvidia drivers, namely one that has the open nvidia drivers included in the ISO.

PopOS and Ubuntu do this.

I’d avoid CachyOS for Linux newbs as it is bleeding edge and can be difficult to manage.

• Listening to some idiot salesman talk about his company’s extremely shitty SaaS product because your manager thought the email that the shit company sent him wasn’t the result of leads from data brokers selling email address data.

Nah but it is really stupid and wreckless behavior.