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Cake day: November 21st, 2023

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  • It shouldn’t, but it does. We do not live in a perfect world.

    When doctors at the emergency room have to make decisions about who to treat first, they follow guidelines like this one. Those help save lives, by making sure that those patients who need the most urgent care get it first.

    In the same way, elevating LGBT issues above more pressing needs of the general population doesn’t help anyone, not even LGBT people.

    How does gender-affirming care help someone who is homeless and jobless with no healthcare? Is proper pronoun awareness really more important than environmental protection, or combating political corruption?

    Just to be clear, I 100% agree that trans rights are human rights. It is an important issue, and deserves attention. But what about black lives matter? Isn’t that important anymore? Are we still on that bandwagon, or did it get old? (I realize I’m getting snarky here, my apologies)

    Addressing the unnecessary suffering of minority groups of all kinds is important. But putting them above issues that are critical to the survival of our society as a whole hurts everyone, even the people that these policies are designed to help.



  • I care about privacy for the same reason you do. Actually I don’t care about my personal privacy bacause I’ve always been careful to not share too much with big tech companies, but I refuse to use products from amazon, meta, alphabet, apple, or microsoft (outside of work hardware/software) because of how they abuse their position of power over the poor.






  • In addition to rhe other advice, I’d add what helped me the most: install arch from scratch.

    Use an older PC you have lying around, or just a VM. Use the installation guide on the arch wiki (or a video on feetube if you prefer to listen to a human explain stuff) and just learn as you go.




  • This certainly isn’t of the same caliber as some of these other comments, but I found it to be fitting to the topic.

    Last year I was having problems getting the game stellaris working on arch. (I use bazzite now, btw) My solution was the following:

    1. download the game via steam.
    2. switch it to use proton
    3. switch it back to linux version
    4. use the terminal to make the entire game folder read-only, so that steam couldn’t touch the game anymore and screw it up.
    5. add the exicutable to PATH
    6. start the game via terminal

    If any one of those step was left out, it didn’t work. I’m no linux expert, so I didn’t have the skills to actuality find the real problem.


  • Well I for one hope they figure out an alternative income, like a premium subscription? Or perhaps look to get acquired by proton and get some integration going with those services? I’m no expert here, I just think that they have a lot of happy users, and there must be some way to figure this out financially.





  • I haven’t seen any hardware issues, but perhaps I’m just ignorant. I’m pretty busy with work and family generally, so I seldom dig into troubleshooting recently. I’m not even sure I’d know how to start with hardware diagnostics on an atomic distro (but that should be easy enough to find in the documentation).

    I’ll try turning off steam overlay, thanks for the tip!