squaresinger

Sounds like you can't handle multiple facets of a topic at the same time.

You could have written something very similar about the USA, just that their oligarchy started a few centuries earlier.

Tbh, I haven't done time, but that's still me.

I upgraded from an old laptop to a 4070. I tried HDR and I don't see a difference at all. I turned off all the lights, closed the blinds and turned the (hdr compatible, I checked) screen to max brightness. I don't see a difference with HDR turned on or off.

Next I tried path tracing. I could see a difference, but honestly, not much at all. Not nearly enough to warrant reduced FPS and certainly not enough to turn down other graphics settings to keep the FPS.

To me, both are just buzzwords to get people to fork over more money.

Tbh, you aren't wrong. I still keep getting anti-COVID memes and stuff from the lockdowns that's kept alive by the out-of-touch rightwing clowns in my extended family. They keep all that stuff alive even though it's been 4 years now and nobody remembers what it felt like.

Beware, things are not that easy with Linux. If you use Windows, you use Windows. There are different versions but they are just differently old versions of the same thing. Same company, same people, same stuff. So you can say things like "Windows shares your data with Microsoft", because there's only 1-2 current versions of Windows at a time.

Since Linux is so open, there are thousands of different distributions created by thousands of different companies or even hobbyists doing that on their own time. And since it's so open, it can be configured any which way.

For example, ChromeOS and Android are two Linux distributions created by Google, and both of them collect and share your data like crazy.

Some of the more classical Linux distributions (like e.g. Ubuntu) also ask you if you want to share data with them, but most of them allow you do decline and many of them really don't share data at all (unless you run programs that do share data again).

So what you can say about data protection in regards to Linux is:

• It's not Windows/Microsoft, which shares a lot
• Depending on the distro, it can share just as much as Windows, or nothing at all, or a configurable amount
• There are Linux distros that are very privacy focussed and share little to no data

But no, using any Linux doesn't necessarily mean your data is protected in any special way.

Have you heard of Stallman's new project TNL?

There's pretty much three core OSes out there:

• Windows
• Linux
• BSD

Amost everything else is just a variation of these.

Android, ChromeOS, PS3 OS, tons of embedded systems like car entertainment systems, and of course all the traditional Linux distros like Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, Fedora, and so on are Linux.

MacOS, iOS, Switch OS, pfSense and tons of embedded systems like routers, and of course all the traditional BSD distros like FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD and so on are BSD based. (Though Switch OS, to be fair, is mostly it's own thing, only borrowing significant portions from BSD.)

Per se, it's actually not. There are thousands and thousands of hobby-level kernels floating around. Many university courses actually include making your own simple kernel.

The big issue is that the kernel is the core of the whole ecosystem. Everything builds upon it. So if you build a new kernel, you pretty much need to rebuild everything built on top of it.

As a bad comparison, imagine you came up with a genious new shape for a car fuel hose nozzle. You know, the thing you plug into your car to refuel it. Designing a new nozzle is easy. Getting it made isn't much harder either. Retrofitting billions of cars to work with that new shape is an almost impossible amount of work. So while making a new nozzle is no problem at all, actually implementing it is almost impossible.

The same holds true for the kernel. Making "a kernel" isn't a big issue. Getting it to work with all PCs with all their diverse hardware and software is close to impossible.

The Linux kernel and the drivers running in it easily have billions of work hours invested into it, and still it doesn't work perfectly with every piece of hardware you might have in your PC.

It's actually Ubuntu with the default Arch wallpaper.

It does explain why Amazon (and every other company and by extension large parts of society) entirely focusses on "buy X for your mother/father right now" instead of even acknowledging hardships and difficult situations (abusive parents, dead parents, parents with dead children/miscarriages, people who want to have children but can't, parents with difficult relationships with their children, ...).

There's no room for subtlety and compassion when money can be made.

In an ideal world, these holidays would be divorced from making money, and if not that, shops would at least allow you to select what holidays you want to appear in their marketing material.

I really like that showerthoughts is apparently far less harshly moderated than r/showerthoughts. Posting over there feels like a mine field where the chances of getting your post deleted over a trivial mistake seem to be much higher than the chances of being able successfully post there.

I'm sure this post wouldn't have survived at r/showerthoughts and I would have missed out on it.

Many Bothans have died to bring us this intel.