Boomers, unironically. Well then x too, but 45+ are the biggest share of gamers by far in the west.

Every cop explicitly deserves to be executed. Anyone punching a cop is only in the wrong because they didn’t go far enough.

Not really, its how you stop paying entirely arbitrary prices for a monopoly.

Also what you’re suggesting is illegal in some areas, and that’s without true public utilities.

Most of civilization isn’t needed for the good parts to exist. The invention of the steam motor should’ve resulted in a ridiculously sharp decline in population, as most labor was no longer needed to feed the population.

The Puritans weren’t the only or even primary colonists, but yes that was their motivation. That and their barbaric faith practices were quite literally illegal… in medieval England of all places. Children weren’t even considered people yet but how the Puritans treated them was bad enough to be made illegal.

Its not tricky, energy shouldn’t be privatized.

Just like the pit of infinite despair and spiked dildos is technically different from the pit of infinite spiked dildos and despair; being to the left of republicans because you want to burn orphans for warmth instead of fun does not make you left wing nor a good choice.

MS Office runs just fine, libre office is also fine for the vast majority of use cases, and of course you can play call of duty. The only thing kernel level anticheat does is make the installation of a game take longer with a few more steps; and most companies are realizing that given the demand from the steam deck.

…why did the single most transformative event in terms of working from home on non work supplied devices change how companies deploy apps?

That obvious question and answer aside, everything has been moving from installed apps to web apps over the last decade. Office365 was the nail in the coffin for traditionally deployed applications, as now businesses didn’t need to update a hundred thousand deployments, just have them login in like they have always done. Not to mention web apps also tend to work on phones and tablets without any addition development work or training.

Have you just been out of it for the last decade or what? Have you just been out of a job for that entire time? Especially with how we assembly has been developed there are exceedingly few cases where you need to have anything but a browser installed for work. I’ve been with three companies in the last 5 years. The only system requirements was a chrome browser and fast enough hard lines internet. Two of those companies were fortune 100, so its not like this is just happening with startups using SaaS providers to cut down on costs.

What decade did you step out of? These arguments stopped being true last decade. None of these arguments have been even slightly true since the pandemic.

Not really. Most people under 25 grew up on Chromebooks, not windows. Most people over 25 that aren’t tech savvy have been systematically moved to exclusively use web apps for whatever thing they’re doing. And based on browser numbers they can recognize a chrome logo to click on.

Anyone even slightly tech savvy, and I’m including people that use a computer for anything other than web based apps as tech savvy, has heard of Linux and can figure out what pretty icon to click on.

This isn’t 1994, Ubuntu was made for the iPhone generation, windows 11 was made for the iPhone generation. They’re both babby mode oses for people that think google is a program.

Let’s not have tpm at all instead.

You’re really underestimating how similar windows 11 and Ubuntu are for average end users

Its also shit with experience. Just apply to literally everything and hope something in the salary range you want reaches out.

Tell that to Buddhists, especially Tibetan Buddhists which explicitly discriminate against women and claim they will never reach enlightenment.

Memes are memes, why are you subscribed to a meme page if you don’t like memes

The act of stabbing your artery in order to stop the gangrene you got from repeatedly stabbing your arteries is indeed just as bad as dipping your gangrenous tissue into your open wounds to spread it faster. Neither make you better. Neither is a true stopping point.

Or in other words, Dems are the clutch and reps are the gas. You have no brakes. You might be able to stop without a brake, maybe even stay stopped. But shits going to get worse no matter which you choose since you’re actively ignoring the brakes.

The lower tiers vote for the higher tiers, and anyone can join government.

As far as your concern, there’s a reason the government in china actually works, vs the US that stagnates for decades.

Only actually qualified people have power. You prove yourself over years. Xi, for example, has a doctorate and decades of proven experience; and that was after winning his external elections.

to compare to to western democracy, you don’t vote for prime minister, the people you voted for votes for prime minister. Just add a few layers with publicly auditable and contestable elections.

Its run by the communist party, whose purpose is guiding the country to communism and self dissolution; which has necessitated not skipping over the industrial and consumer revolutions, both of which likely require capitalism, but in any case have been done with capitalism so that path is easier and known, allowing them to benefit from the waste from less competent countries.

Or in other words, they’re the only country in history to execute billionaires, whatever they are is objectively better than the US or EU.

The problem with having 365 million people or so in a sick society that encouraged and rewards destroying each other is that things get worse automatically.

Dems doing nothing makes things worse. Reps doing nothing makes things worse. Its a prisoners dilemma where the only winning move is to kill the cops and hope for the best.

If al gore won we’d have still invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, it would just be in bush jrs first term in 2004 that we invade Iraq.