This is interesting because I haven’t so far seen widespread BDS support in Germany. Aldi is presumably doing this preemptively in the expectation that this is where things are going. So that’s a good sign.

Didn’t finish it. The city building aspect is barebones, doesn’t really feel like you have much creative freedom or strategic choice. They offer you narrative “choices” which I don’t think really affect the narrative, though I only played the thing once.

I don’t know anything about that. I’ve been using Debian since before even Ubuntu and Arch existed. Tried Gentoo once, it was stupid. I don’t really understand why so many other non-commercial community distros came into being since, Debian was already perfect perfectly fine in 1999. I think you’d need some sociological explanation. People seem to want do their own thing rather than engage with Debian’s structures.

Don’t install SteamOS, it’s not meant for arbitrary hardware. You don’t need a special gaming distro. You don’t need a bleeding edge distro either for gaming, despite what people may claim, unless you have very new hardware. Literally any stable distro, including say Debian or Ubuntu LTS, allows you play Steam games perfectly fine. In the past, Arch has broken stuff, including games, because it was too bleeding edge. Both “too new” and “too old” can cause issues in practice.

You can run pretty much any popular program on any distro, they usually come with them in fact, albeit sometimes with older versions. If you really care about having the newest Gimp or whatever, you can usually install that via flatpak on any distro. Some caveats apply, sometimes the flatpak version is worse in some way, e.g. annoyingly sandboxed off from the main system, meaning it doesn’t have access to certain folders or hardware. I would recommend using the distro packages first, if available, and only try other methods of installing software (like flatpak or manual download/install) if you are having issues with your distro package.

Linux supports all the file systems, any USB drive that works on Windows should work out of the box.

Whether you can copy settings over depends on the program. For some software, the native Linux and Windows version’s file formats are compatible, some are not (there are definitely native Linux games where e.g. the savegames are actually incompatible). For native Windows games that you run through translation layers (Wine/Proton), that’s not a problem of course. It’s sometimes not so easy to find where exactly the relevant folders are actually buried though.

Also now I’m at the point in the program where Ash is explaining that it’s just Netanyahu leading them all by the nose. I hate these people, they spend half the program complaining how the media and politicians are doing “industrial scale gaslighting” and then they come out with these bangers.

To summarize their shit takes:

• Iran should not respond, that’s dangerous.
• Trump doesn’t actually want to escalate.
• Obama did a great deal, it’s Trump’s fault for blowing it up.
• Iran shouldn’t have nukes, you can sort of see why they’d want them though. Also, Iran probably wasn’t totally transparent with the IAEA (source: the vibes coming out of Ash’s ass).
• Netanyahu is manipulating all of them, he’s the real problem.

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They literally do not even for one second entertain any idea that the US has interest in the region, has geostrategic interests, and has for decades had plans to attack Iran.

Novara media had some peace studies professor on, and that guy (as well as interviewer) somehow think Iran has/had a chance to avoid a war (yes that’s basically how he phrased it) if they just keep quiet and don’t respond. How tf can you study this your whole life and think this whole escalation ladder wasn’t gamed out by a bunch of nerds, and that the US is following a plan here.

It’s so blatant in this instance especially, what with the US clearly constantly choosing to provoke an escalation and using diplomacy just as cover for sneak attacks. Obviously they’re not here to do a one-off bombing raid. If Iran doesn’t respond they’ll poke them more, and if they still don’t respond they’ll just cook up some narrative how they’re weak and this proves that regime change is just behind the corner next bombing run and why let this chance slip through our fingers, and how to be absolutely sure that Iran can’t get the bomb, regime change is definitely necessary, or maybe they’ll say they didn’t actually destroy Iran’s nuclear program and they’re definitely making a bomb right now under a children’s hospital or whatever they can come up with.

The only reason why Iran would respond cautiously is to make the US look bad, but at this point how much of difference does that make? People have already made up their mind, the spin doctors are already spinning, and they’ll ignore international and public opinion as best they can like they always do anyway.

I’m pretty sure Elon Musk is not so delusional that he wants to go to Mars. He’s just lying to market his grift. I support him doing this, it looks like he’s scamming the US out of billions while setting back their military space program with this vaporware rocket.

Something like that. I don’t believe the universe is a simulation, but as a hobby programmer, a sort of mechanical or computational model of the how the universe works appeals to me.

Then you have the idea that gravity may be an emergent statistical phenomenon, which is true for many things (e.g. thermodynamics) and I think a fairly common thought that many people have. Then the idea that, maybe, if you assume local time slowdown, the gravitational attraction force might be derivable from that somehow, due to stuff getting stuck in the slow regions of space. As I “understand” (which I don’t really), in general relativity, the gravitational “force” is just some emergent property of the the curvature of spacetime. So maybe spacetime gets curved by some local computational limit of the universe?

I’m mocking you. You’re the one that drew a line from Germanic tribes and their heroic culture to modern-day Ukraine. These are some pretty völkische theories you got there.

Well that’s better! Someone so interested in tales of Germanic valor should be ready for another Volkssturm. What I don’t get is why you wouldn’t sacrifice yourself in Ukraine, what with the blood relation and all. Maybe Ukrainians aren’t quite as Germanic in your mind after all?

How is this an excuse? The Germanic tribes of Ukraine used to fight down to the last elderly person I hear.

Is the OEM kernel getting security updates? Then it should be fine.

If you want a specific feature that’s available in the newer kernel, then just try it out. You can select the kernel during boot. If it all works, uninstall the OEM kernel and it should default to the generic one.

Edit: If you want to find out whether you’re getting security updates, I’d check the changelog. It should be somewhere like /usr/share/doc/linux-image-somethingsomething/changelog.gz. The entries there should have a date. If the last security fix is older than a couple of weeks, that would be concerning.