Yep, as for the last point: the problem was not so much the devs but data going through a Chinese server

If Mint works for you, just stick with it. No need to try a different distribution to compare. You’ll know when you need it.

I would only go to Fedora if you need it. For example newer drivers (kernel, mesa). Don’t go change the kernel and/or mesa on a distribution, probably better to switch at that point. Or if you need KDE or GNOME for some reason. Wayland is disabled in Mint by default, but can be enabled. It’s been over a year IIRC since they added experimental Wayland support so it may be fine by now.

Differences between Linux distributions are exaggerated.

Mint is a great choice, it is very stable, and it really holds your hand via the Software Center.

However, stable also means old: it does not support the latest hardware.

If you have hardware that released after (rough estimate) April 2024, consider something based on Fedora, such as Bazzite, instead. It comes with modern drivers and should support modern hardware much better.

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Thanks for the addition, I never meant to imply that but I should have specified. For me personally it’s the best I can legally get because I can’t get a diagnosis.

If you are undiagnosed and unmedicated, you can try a very strong cup of coffee, or an energy drink. Ritalin is also a stimulant, and caffeine has similar effects.

Beware though, if you consume caffeine regularly, this won’t work.

My recommendation: drink only water on normal days, drink very strong caffeinated drink in case of emergency.

It does give you a headache later in the day, and/or the day after, so keep that in mind.

Yes, it’s called CBAM and it’s the most beautiful tax I’ve ever seen:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Carbon_Border_Adjustment_Mechanism

Genuinely great blog post!

This is perfect for !linuxmemes@lemmy.world though: “nah I don’t want to switch to Linux, it’s hard. I’ll just compile QEMU with some patches to run VMs on Windows”

A permanent exception may actually be OK: China is much further along in the energy transition and the CCP are not doing that out of the kindness of their genocidal hearts: economic forces make electrification inevitable, as we can already see with EVs.

Also, the European market is big enough to have global impact, even if our rules aren’t matched by other world powers eventually.

That was my first response too, but on second thought, this may be a good balance between keeping European industry strong and green incentives:

• EVERY COMPANY pays carbon tax over what they sell in Europe: the EU made sure that carbon tax is paid over imports too so it is not worth it to companies who want to sell in EU to move production out of Europe
• By not taxing exports, European heavy industry gets to compete fairly outside Europe too: American companies don’t pay European carbon tax on what they sell in the US. If we would tax European heavy industry exports, they would be at a severe disadvantage.

European heavy industry isn’t doing great overall. This is partly their own fault: lobbying has focused on keeping grey tech alive instead of enabling a green transition, but also largely because of high wages and regulation in Europe.

We need to push European heavy industry through the energy transition, not into bankruptcy. I’d rather do the energy transition a little slower than be completely dependent on American and Chinese companies for steel, aluminium, etc.

And I’ve been arrested at many climate protests, so don’t tell me I don’t care enough about the climate!

OG Crysis!

It’s a pretty great Deck game, and I’d never seen it run as consistently as it does on Deck at 40fps limit.

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keep it on cache since I do a lot of code compilation, but I will usually switch it to frequency for gaming and stuff.

Isn’t gaming the most cache-heavy CPU workload there is? The X3D CPUs have consistently topped gaming benchmarks, even outperforming much more modern CPUs that lack 3D cache.

I’d sooner do it the other way around: frequency for compiling, rendering, transcoding, etc. Cache for gaming!

It’s not something to be proud of, that’s obvious.

But Rutte was not made secretary-general because of his personal pride. I wasn’t happy to have him as prime minister, at all, for all those years, but he is very good at one thing: getting everyone in the room to agree and making everyone in the room feel heard.

This is how you get Trump to be enthusiastic about your project. He is using Trump’s ego to get him om board with NATO. This is top-tier manipulation, and it’s working!

Rutte is the perfect man for this job, and this is exactly why. No pride, no ego, just doing whatever it takes to keep the unity in NATO and to ensure we are strong enough to deter Russia.

LXQt runs on it

No but OPs frame of it might be

And now each and every country is supposed to spend more on tanks and guns and drones only

Nope, 3.5%.

The other 1.5% is infrastructure and stuff that has both peacetime and wartime benefits, such as roads and rail that can be used for military transport in case of war, cybersecurity, I’d even argue that energy independence can be shared under this.

What is this community’s policy on Russian propaganda?

Yep, and then there’s probably a good number of people who have no idea of threat modelling who just copy those actions to say they have “good privacy”.

Tbh, I’m closer to the latter.