Run a webbrowser inside of a Windows environment, on Linux?
WINE/Proton?
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SteamOS is open source.
Proton is open source.
Steam the game platform is closed source.
Hopefully it is obvious why open sourcing a payment processing application with tens of millions of user and bank accounts tied into it would be highly problematic.
You might as well be demanding PayPal or Epic Games Store to be open source.
There are 0 games I have that do not work on Proton.
This is because I don't play games with rootkits.
You may have heard these referred to as 'Kernel Level Anticheats'.
They're rootkits, and nearly every single major anti-cheat system that exists has at least one game where its been made to work with/on linux.
All game devs that say its too hard or impossible to make AC work on linux are incompetent or lying.
I have absolutely no idea how you managed to screw up Waterfox, I've been using it for like a year + with 0 problems.
I've never encountered any behavior from it like what you describe as a default setting.
I have never had to write any code to get ... I don't think any version of linux I've ever used, to work, as an OS.
... what... specifically, is the 'functionality' of both Linux Mint and Bazzite that you apparently only get out of one or the other?
Like genuinely, what does that even mean?
I play games on Bazzite, and I've also compiled 03DE from scratch on Bazzite, I tinker around in Godot and Blender and various other dev tool type things regularly.
It is entirely possible to work and play on either Linux Mint or Bazzite.
With LibreOffice, yeah, you don't get all of the proprietary Windows fonts directly out of the box, but uh, Bottles is a neat flatpak that rapidly sets up a Windows environment, with a GUI, and its a few clicks to add the 'all fonts' dependency, snd then voila, you have your proprietary fonts.
What you almost certainly are is a jaded Windows poweruser who expects non Windows operating systems to function and be tweaked and follow the same paradigms as Windows.
They don't.
They are different operating systems.
They work differently.
Applying your Windows based intuition will lead you to break things.
Whole lotta MacOS recommendations here, so I'm gonna say:
Bazzite.
... you can actually play games on it, and its an OS too!
More technically:
Its a Linux distro, an atomic version of Fedora, with many tweaks and pre built in utilities to make gaming work better and more easily.
If you have no idea what that means, it means that its fairly cutting edge but also very stable version of linux, where the core OS yells at you if you try to muck with it, and highly encourages you to use the various sandboxed containers it helps you use you run all sorts of applications.
The simple version of the above is: Just use the app store, Bazaar, and things will pretty much 'just work'.
You can do more intense / power user / expert type stuff if you like, and it does take a few extra steps compared to just like, straight Fedora or Debian, but, Bazzite is much, much more noob friendly and much harder to break.
I mean, I'm an 'anarkiddie' according to actual tankies, but I don't broadly discriminate against .ml users, most of them are great!
... but, a lot of .ml powermods do things like declare the Xi Poohbear meme to be inherently racist, even though it was literally created by Chinese netizens.
Or, god help you if you attempt to discuss the Holodomor.
You can do what I do and just block the genAI art comms.
No harm, no foul, I just am not interested in the content.
While I can't say for certain, I would strongly suspect that a lot of the people in those comms are self hosting their LLMs/Image generators, if that makes you feel any better.
But uh, there are a variety of nuanced stances on LLMs and such, amongst the other m@teys I've talked with.
Its... not like we're all super duper no holds barred put AI in everything advocates.
A lot of us are... quite a lot closer to 'Butlerian Jihad NOW', lol.
Zip is awesome! I switched over to db0, but simply because of a technical glitch on .zip like a year ago now, which was rapidly fixed by the admin.... and I was too impatient to withstand not being able to post, lol.
A+ instance imo.
Not too long ago, I saw at least 8 F16s leave the Sioux Falls airport, headed south, in a single day.
More than that in total over several other days, blackhawks, chinooks, more f16s, etc.
This was not too long before the snatch and grab of Maduro.
My total guess would be we've got a lot more airframes than normal positioned at or near the southern border.
Beyond that... uh, aluminum foil type balloons basically show up quite brightly on radar screens and such... they're a lot like chaff.
So, if the computer systems attached to the radar system failed to flag it as 'probably a balloon or something', well, it could have just been blown along by the wind at approximately drone speeds, at approximately a drone altitude, on a trajectory that I guess looked hostile or suspicious.
And if it was a bunch of aluminum foil balloons, that could look like a drone formation or swarm, if they more or less got picked up by the same air current.
Apparently the explanation is 'we thought it was a cartel drone swarm'
“The FAA and [Department of War] acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming,” Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a statement.
So... yeah, itchy trigger finger, and it means aluminum foil party balloons are apparently, in at least some conditions, not able to be filtered out as party balloons by the involved radar/computer systems and/or whatever humans are in charge of making a call.
Or, who knows, maybe at this point it was fucking Grok that made the call, after all, Hegseth made a big show of incorperating xAI into as many military systems as possible.
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Needs to resign?
Needs to be drawn and quartered, along with every member of this cabinet.
Trump gets buried alive, covered in concrete, and then chisled into an award for himself, that reads SIC SEMPER TYRANIS.
Fuck all of these goddamned traitors.
For example, I am the treasurer for my regional timebank, and among my offered services are financial literacy, budgeting, and household bookkeeping. This won't surprise you at all: it's my most used offer (>100 hours used) and the number of people lacking these skills... it's almost like this system is designed for a certain scope and scale of financial ignorance.
Well hey, you're actually doing some effective harm mitigation and working to provide a framework of alternatives!
That is actually commendable, I tip my proverbial hat to that.
I used to work at a nonprofit serving the homeless and at risk of becoming homeless... after enough years inside a few Fortune 500 companies showed me the true extent of the horror.
Sadly I got badly maimed and am almost a year into full time at home physical therapy... progress is real, but slow.
Had to move to the middle of nowhere to find somewhere I could afford to rent off of just SSDI.
But anyway, yes, it is very much obviously intentional that we have a lack of financial literacy and at this point just general literacy:
The Republicans have been doing everything they can for my entire lifetime thus far to destroy public education, and it is working.
I’m not sure what else could be done here.
Reform or overthrow the system instead of participating in it to the detriment of others.
Start or join a housing co-op.
Do something to alleviate the harm, or provide an alternative system.
If you have enough assets/credit to consider getting a home mortgage, you have enough assets/credit to make a meaningful difference.
No more excuses.
In a broken system, doing good, being moral, has costs, is difficult.
Instead of leveraging your privelege to increase or sustain your privilege, leverage it toward effective change.
"I don't know what else you're supposed to do" is why the machine keeps grinding everyone to death, is why more and more people become homeless, is ultimately why the planet's climate is now fucked beyond repair and we can now only attempt to cope with the now unstoppable changes that are coming.
You understand what you are doing by participating in the system, therfore, you either condone it, or you're a hypocrite.
Predatory lending in the vast majority of developed economies other than the US:
Adjustable rate home mortgages being issued to financially illeterate people without extremely clear and emphasized risks and disclosures.
Same thing with HELOCs.
Vehicles loans with rates over 15%.
... subprime lending basically just is predatory lending that we don't legally call predatory lending.
Oh and then of course there is the entire system of Private Credit Shadow Banks who issue trillions in loans to all kinds of business entities, who basically aren't required to do anywhere near the level of accounting rigor or transparency that actual banks do.
We just basically don't regulate them.
Financing also literally causes or just is monetary inflation, in a debt-based fiat currency system.
Those with access to credit leverage it and prosper roughly proportional to their level of credit access, those without access to it pay the inflation tax and suffer.
This is why capitalism has bubble/pop cycles, inherently, systemically, unavoidably.
When your home is functionally your own personal bank, you want home values to keep going up... which necessarily causes less people to be able to afford homes, and in a society based on access to credit being necessary to 'buy' a home, this creates and exacerbates a class divide.
(You really haven't 'bought' your home untill you've fully paid off the mortgage, untill then you're more or less doing a complex rent-to-own from the bank.)
Its also why you get 'too big to fail' banks and other entities... they have a bunch of bad debt, and if they are forced to actually account for it, well that would mean so many write offs that it would massively decrease the money supply, which is a recession/depression.
The same dynamic is at play with college costs.
More financialized, more loans? Prices go up. Less people can afford college, or in our lovely system where student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy, more people become literal debt slaves.
Same dynamic is also at play with vehicles, cars.
... real estate is only a hedge against inflation in a society that is stratifying, becoming more inequitable.
If that's your inflation hedge strategy, you must understand that mass broad usage of this strategy actively causes the impoverishment of those who can't afford super-inflating home prices.
Super-inflating home values is the Boomers climbing a ladder, and then once they're on top of it, constantly pulling that ladder higher, further and further away from the ground, from all their kids.
EDIT:
Median age of a new home buyer, as of latest data, is now 40 years old.
It was ~28 through most of the 80s.
Qwen3, 8B parameter model, seems to be the most generally comprehensive model I can run on it, via the Alpaca flatpak.
(Though I should note that Alpaca just recently revamped how it works internally, as currently has a few bugs that resulted from this, that its dev is working out.)
Its not fast in terms of like a realtime back and forth conversation, but, it is pretty good at a lot of things, at least up to the conclusion of its training data set. So it works fairly well if you describe a scenario to it, and then ask it to mock up like you say, a complex regex term, or a moderately complex bash or python file.
You can also say like hey, I have a semi-thought out idea for an app or feature, or just a fairly complex function, outline a number of possible specific methods or mathematical algorithms we might be able to use to achive this, and it'll mock out a project outline, and then you can have it develop the smaller components singly... sometimes this works, sometimes it makes syntax or conceptual or logical errors.
It also generally works for refactoring a single script toward being either more modular or more monolithic, but when you have it try to consider how to refactor a complex project of many scripts, well you'll basically exceed its capacity to keep everything straight.
If you want a snappier though less comprehensive model, 3B parameter models are a good deal quicker, they'd probably be what you want for like, a relationship with a sycophant/airhead/confidently incorrect person, lol.
Oh, both are easy to answer:
Because he's a dumbass Republican.
... but I repeat myself.
Oh my god, this guy in particular can truly go fuck himself with a rake.
Goddamn, what an insanely priveleged hypocritical dumbass.
It has barely even begun to dawn on Ben Shapiro that maybe devoting your entire existence to normalizing bigotry of all kinds ... is a bad idea, when you're a Jew.
I still find it amazing that like, by Nick Fuentes' standards, I am an Aryan ubermensch and he is a (insert slur for 1/4-1/8 Latino).
He doesn't even have blue eyes!
He has hazel eyes!
Which is caused by... wow, more melanin than in blue eyes!
(https://mylumineyes.com/eye-color-chart-genetics-genes/)
He so often wears blue suits because it makes his eyes look more blue than they actually are!
And he's a manlet!
... so fucking stupid ...
This made me think of like, an old school choose your adventure type book, but it tells you to roll whatever kinds of checks, in addition to actually just making decisions.
Potentially also solo-deving an rpg video game.
I run mine on a Steam Deck.
Fairly low power draw on that lol.
Though I'm using it as a coding assistant... not a digital girlfriend.
... though I have modded my Deck a bit, so... I guess I already know what 'she' looks like on the inside, hahaha!
Lol yeah.
I mean, I run Bazzite on my mine, but yeah, SteamDecks run SteamOS by default... which is linux.