People are just now realizing that a mass network of always online cameras on most doors in your neighborhood is bad, actually?

I’m not sure how you managed to get that to function, I’ve tried many times to get any calendar to work with the one in KDE and given up every time

It doesn’t sync to KDE’s calendar app, unfortunately, but it does sync to Gnome’s. It’s one of the pain points I had swapping to KDE.

Some of those issues are addressable, even though they definitely suck, depending on how badly someone wants to swap to Linux. I have a PC I connect to my TV, and while it’s built in wifi doesn’t work on linux, I was able to buy a PCI wifi card and put it in, which works. You can do similar for Bluetooth. Currently I just use it over Ethernet. For laptops, it’s a pain but there are USB wifi/bluetooth devices you can get. Fingerprint readers are tougher, I believe, but I feel less critical. Either way, use what works best for you!

In the case of dark souls, you can quit out at any time and your progress is saved. If you’re in a boss fight, it’ll just put you in front of the boss door when you reload your save. It’s saving automatically constantly. Bonfires are more for setting your respawn point when you die, and fast travel, among other features that vary from game to game. That level of tension can absolutely be done without forcing you to lose progress if say, your power goes out or you have to go.

The source I provided categorizes them based on why they are vacant. Consider that people owning homes they don’t live in is part of the problem with distribution of housing. Especially when we are talking about large real estate corporations that buy up large amounts of land. I don’t care if somebody has a vacation home, I do think it’s a problem for companies like greystar to exist. The system we use to distribute housing is failing our population. Again, you’re calling us self-righteous and lazy, when you don’t know us, or anything about our lives other than that we post memes on social media. You don’t know what kind of protesting we do, or what charity groups we support financially, or the way is that we help others in our communities. Perhaps, instead of trying to shit on others sharing ideas on a social media platform designed for sharing ideas, you can just walk away from a post.

I think that you overestimate what even large amounts of people working together can accomplish vs the lobbying power of companies like Blackrock. Our state is corrupt and calling your representatives can only do so much. Memes are a way of sharing ideas, and in any political movement, sharing ideas is critical. You may consider it a waste of time, and assume that OP and myself do nothing but virtue signal. Ultimately those assumptions are just that, and the only anonymous judgement has been on your end. I’m not making assumptions about you, or about what you do, support, believe, etc. I pointed out your assumptions, and you’re calling that judgement. As far as vacant homes, there’s plenty of data out there if you’re willing to do a single internet search. https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf

It’s wild to see the assumption that just because somebody makes a meme about a topic means that they don’t actively participate in trying to better our system. Namely because so much of the waste we’re talking about isn’t your half eaten fried rice, and the example you provided about housing is but one example of vacant homes. There are so many vacant homes on the market that are perfectly suitable to live in, but we live in an economic system where housing is denied unless you can pay for it. Which means so many of us are at the whims of the real estate market and the people who profit off trying to make their property as valuable as possible. That’s the thing, it’s not necessarily about intentional ill will, but the side effects of things that seem like perfectly reasonable justifiable decisions. Throwing away food because it’s cheaper to do so, leaving suitable houses empty for decades because it’s cheaper to do so, manufacturing millions of dollars of cheap electronics that are going to go to waste because getting people to buy the new thing is profitable. I think it would be totally possible for us to build manufactured housing at scale, using our tax dollars, and when a person wants to live independently they can apply and receive a home at no cost to them. It would be totally possible for us to manufacture devices that are intended to be maintained and used long term, generating less waste. But when everything is built around making money, this all goes out the window.

There are different Linux distributions that do offer paid support, as far as the OS goes. So if you’re interested in professional paid support for the OS, something like Zorin OS or Ubuntu may be an option. I’ve seen others recommend Linux mint, and that’s my go-to for someone not familiar with Linux. It’s popular and even if whatever repair shop you’re taking it into isn’t familiar, they can find the resources online to fix whatever problem you may have. But being totally practical, even if you dislike windows, if it’s able to do what you need, and the people that you know are familiar with it, is it worth the effort to swap for you and your use case?

I’ve been using linux for years, after windows 10 forced an update at the beginning of a college class I needed the laptop for, and that update took longer than the class. Today though, I use Garuda Linux, but I’ve hopped around between a variety of distros. For many years I’ve kept a small SSD with Windows 10 on it, so I could play League of Legends or run software I couldn’t get to work in WINE. But with EOL now here, and my PC not supported by 11, I finally just cleared that drive so I can store games or movies/shows on it.

I was in college at the time, I went to class, which I needed my laptop for. I believe it was windows 10? I opened the laptop to start my work, and windows immediately, unprompted, without permission, began an update - an update that took longer than the class lasted. This should never happen, and for me it never does on any Linux distribution I’ve used.

I’ve been working on getting the true ending in hollow Knight, and I’m currently trying to beat some of the DLC content. I’m get to play silksong soon

You can, in fact, learn to draw things yourself. It’s insane to expect artists to work for below a livable hourly wage just because you can’t afford it.

I’ve played a lot of Battle net games by installing battle net in lutris, then installing the game I want to play there. There’s a lot of scripts you can find for installing particular games. I can’t speak for whether HOTS works, but I played many many hours of WoW and Overwatch (before 2) that way. It’s annoying using a launcher to run a launcher to play your game, but it works.

Happens, I’d bet money it was a multi-location stop and they were intending to deliver that neighbor’s package and accidentally grabbed yours. It’s easy to make a mistake here and there when you’re delivering to thousands of houses in a given week.

What’s crazy us, there’s actually enough existing housing for everyone, at least in the US to have a home. It’s just all owned by massive real estate corporations and left empty. The state doesn’t need to build more housing, they just won’t distribute what’s there. But let’s be real, they don’t want people to stop being homeless. Our prison industry is private and for-profit, they want them to be homeless so they can criminalize and arrest them, so they can make them do cheap/free prison labor.

I’ve been using Garuda for… Two or three years? I’ve done a lot of distro-hopping looking for something that won’t just break on me. I used Ubuntu for a long time but kept running into situations where it would break, such as boot loops. Eventually I settled on Garuda because it ships with newer software and Nvidia drivers, which is helpful because I use my PC for gaming. I have stuck around because it’s garuda-update command automatically makes a backup of your system out of the box, and you can select to boot into a backup in grub then restore it really easily. There have been a couple times where something has broken on an update, but when that happens I can immediately restore the backup, and I don’t even need to remember to run a backup manually. I do feel that the default theme is a bit gaudy so I swapped it to a default KDE, but other than that I’ve had pretty much only good experiences with Garuda.

I’ve personally been using a raspberry pi with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. I just run jellyfin in Firefox and navigate with the mouse - the keyboard rarely ever being necessary. I was able to increase the icon size so it’s acceptable on a tv and bookmark any streaming websites I use. It’s certainly not as clean as using something like an apple tv, but it’s serviceable and I don’t have to fiddle with plugins like when I tried Kodi. Honestly though, apple tv probably fulfills what you’re looking for like others have said.

Garuda is more user friendly than most arch distros, but you really might want to consider something like bazzite. You can always change the desktop environment and theme as much as you want regardless of distro, although if you’re looking for a Windows -like experience I recommend KDE with it’s default settings.

Yeah, that’s Debian for you. It can be really good depending on your use case - you’re never going to have anything break up on an update since they don’t update packages often. It can be an annoyance sometimes though.