Oof.

And I read it wrong like multiple times.

Thank you

I generally overshoot when it comes to the hardware specs, if I can. That way you’re prepared in advance if you end up having the option to upgrade your Internet connection.

Otherwise, you may find yourself locked in to the slower plan due to the cost of upgrading your hardware.

But, sometimes you have to choose realistic over optimal, of course. So in other words, I do not think I know what’s best for you! Just offering a perspective that has worked for me, in case it helps you in some way as you evaluate the choice that’s best for you.

I use Firefox with the udm14 extension for Google - gives me only the web results. No AI, no shopping, images, etc, only website results.

Let’s not forget lobbyingbribery. And since said political influence is ostensibly being bought for the sake of charity, nobody would even blink.

Just my theory, mind you. But every one of these charitable foundations is primarily done for tax avoidance. No question. Well that is every one of these foundations except for the one set up by Mr President Tiny Dick. He just can’t resist the temptation of embezzlement. I mean seriously, he bankrupted THREE casinos, and had a judge not just dissolve his foundation, but also bar him from running one of these so-called charitable foundations ever again.

I don’t even want to know how you can fuck up that egregiously. One of those things where you have to wonder if successfully finding understanding of how it happened is going to hopelessly corrupt your own soul for all of eternity.

I’ve lived here my whole life, and I’ve known that to be a lie since I was a teenager. Not a fun way to come of age, to be honest…

At this point, it’ll be yet another crappy reboot of a remake of some story we’ve all seen dozens of times.

Heh. Yes they’re similar, but on the technical side different in a very important way. It has to do with opening a file from inside another program. If you select a shortcut, the program with treat or as a separate file, so most of the time the action will fail. A link, though, you should end up with the program opening the target of the link. In other words, a shortcut is a file that points at a different file, where a symlink involves she filesystem trickery to accomplish almost the same thing.

That’s a horrible, just terrible explanation, though - but I’m pretty sure this is the gist of it.

Ah, I may have misunderstood the intent behind some of your wording, my bad.

The whole issue does make me hope open standards continue to gain more adoption. One can hope, right?

Anyway, again, my apologies - it does sound like we’re kinda on the same page here after all.

Whoah, no need to get defensive! That was just a guess based on my own observations, and I never said anything about whether they have the right to do whatever the hell they want with their own chips (which would be true regardless, I reckon).

That said, given that their business model depends on their walled garden approach, I just find myself wondering if they might’ve seen the possibility of running any old ARM executable on their silicon as a potential threat to their business model? But there’s all sorts of factors in play, so maybe I’m wrong and that whole possibility is irrelevant.

Do you happen to know if they strictly extended existing APIs?

Ah. Guess the steam deck must still run X11? That’s currently my primary computer, so I haven’t had to learn about/deal with X11 vs Wayland quite just yet.

KDE has Gamma settings in the Display & Monitor area of system settings. So what you’re looking for is possible.

That will only work if executables compiled with ARM as the target can run on Apple silicon. My understanding was that even though they used ARM as the basis they made significant changes to the instruction set, which would require being able to compile targeting the M1/M2 chips.

I’m not 100%, but I suspect this will be a problem…

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Oh, you sweet summer child. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

You’re talking to someone who would steal the sears catalog (like printed catalog - showed up in an actual physical mailbox) and page through the lingerie ads. You think a hormone driven teenager needs Pornhub?

Just saying…

Umm. What? I can’t fault your optimism, but… No. Like, really. Not a snowball’s chance in hell levels of nope.

Kids are far more likely to assume a fully enshittified experience is “just how it is”. I don’t see any logical path that would support your predicted outcome. Increasing the barrier to entity isn’t just gonna magically change their minds and make them spontaneously hop the fence. That path is even more of a pain in the ass. , and they were already just using what’s shoved in getting of them. If it’s already not worth their time to do different, why would making it seem even less attractive help?

A trans woman openly embracing their feminity is, ironically, manly as hell…just that it’s also, you know, not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is very disturbing when a man is obsessed with shaping themselves to fit some gross vision of manliness rather than just finding their own way in life. Coming from a dude, btw.

Like, what the fuck are you afraid of? Respecting other people? I mean, seriously, nothing projects weakness more than letting some vague social concept define you, rather than choosing that for yourself.

Hell, trans women have FAR more strength than those assholes. Hell, anybody who openly identifies as LGBTQ+, really.

And so many of them just need to get over the fact that they like to bottom. Cause what the fuck is wrong with that, anyway?? Such a disgusting and desperate need to define a woman as less than a man, I suppose.

Wasn’t there some Twatter thread not that long ago about how unprotected sex with a woman would feminize you due to absorbing estrogen, and was therefore gay?

In retrospect, it may have been satire. But who the hell can tell the difference with those weirdos anymore!

This reminds me of a “scandal” when I was much younger where the Intel CEO at the time made a statement to the effect that their customers are the enemy, simply because they weren’t willing to blindly open their wallets and give whatever they could spare to the corporation.

Sadly, people are stupid (groups of people, at least). And the disease of consumerism is devouring our society from the inside out.