So you would teach kids that bowing to social pressure by buying overpriced fashion items is ok?

To each their own indeed.

MOAR WHITESPACE

Having to spend money tp avoid being socially ostracized IS frivolously spending money.

• Unworthy of serious attention; trivial.

• Inappropriately silly.

• Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight.

There is also riseup.net as a non profit email provider, servers in the US I think

You are correct and that was the deciding factor in scratching them off my list.

Currently using this to resize screenshots in a Word doc

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Edit: I was wrong below and am corrected in replies to this comment.

The moniker Tankie is a reference to the Tiananmen Square Massacre because of their minimalizing or outright denials regarding the incident.

Same.

Lot of potential but it didn’t pan out.

Just accidentally memorize it from having to manually pay a bunch of bills online in a short span!

I also pro-rate the value of my games like this. For instance, Helldivers 2: paid $39.99 (€35,76), played 537 hours. That’s $0.001 (€0,0012) or 1/10th of a cent per hour of play. Even if I add $2000 (€1.788,61) for the PC I play on that still only comes to $3.79 (€4.24) an hour.

Hard to beat that price per hour of entertainment.

My Steam spend over the lifetime of my account comes to $25 (€27,97) a month which is a decent monthly entertainment cost. Of course that doesn’t account for additional spending on other entertainment but putting the total spent amount in perspective is definitely good to do, so thanks for pointing that out for those who need it.

Edit: added € costs

Good cushions

Welcome, enjoy!

I recently made the switch from Windows to Linux on my gaming desktop and it’s been a nearly flawless transition. I’ve been running Pop_OS without problems. If you have an AMD video card you might want to check Bazzite for a gaming oriented Linux distro. Any distro should allow you to use a different desktop, so which GUI to use is up to you. KDE Plasma has a lot of skins to choose from and is a pretty easy transition from Windows. You don’t even have to stick with a single desktop environment. I currently choose between the default Pop_OS or Plasma depending on my mood or use case.

Oh awesome! Thank you

Using an old spare as a test is a good idea.

And to think, my wife mocks my hoard of old parts, cables, adapters, etc. Who’s laughing now? It matters not that it grows at an inverse rate at which it is depleted…I did say hoard, did I not?

Yeah…ok, so try it with a spare. Sounds good.

That’s the plan no matter what but always glad to hear from the voices of experience.

I use it to vet ganes for my kids at a glance. I still allow them to play some but I want them going in with eyes open to the machinations going on.

I want to swap my alienware aurora to linux but I’m struggling to find a distro that I know will be compatible with my hardware. Is there a list for bazzite driver support? I’m sure all my hardware will work in most linux distros geared toward gaming but it’d be nice to have some assurance beforehand.

Yes, that’s yet another dark pattern.
You can use this site to help with your game choices.

I’ve finally freed myself from my deadly vices (nicotine and alcohol) just in time to desperately need them as coping mechanisms for the living nightmare my country has become.

Would it blow your mind to find out it’s nuanced and good judgement and data should be used to determine when we should or should not implement new laws or repeal old ones? Or do you prefer binary choices that force a loss on one side or another?