its actually not that bad once you scrape away all the crud.

problem is, its annoying to do and they keep re-enabling it and coming up with new crud.

they will eventually make it so restrictive it will be impossible for people to actually play, before they consider a serverside solution.

brazilians making stragonoff pizza:

one of the reasons i use openwrt

the first thing to realize is that most of the cost of a game goes to publishers, not the creators.

weed was destigmatized even being illegal for the longest time.

legal != moral

i think its imporant we destigmatize piracy, honestly.

i think screens look blurry in the wrong resolution. i always rather use it in the native resolution. that effect will probably be more noticeable in a low ppi screen like the deck’s.

so much space for activities

i have to take an hour commute through heavy traffic so i can… drum roll… sit in front of a computer and work on the internet, just like i fucking would at home.

they make a taboo of even mentioning it.

nah. do things properly for yourself, fuck the boss.

unpatched vulnerabilities

it is a con

the only reason i replaced mine is the cheap chinese motherboard i got along it shit itself.

because of greed, no less

sweet sweet schadenfreude

exacly. like how is this even news.

both affinity and photoshop run well on wine for me. there are native tools like krita that work well for less complex use cases.

as for office i use some basic macros and calculations and libreoffice works for me, but there are many choices that may or may not work for your friend.

admittedly, software discovery on linux is awful. the app store isnt that good on some distros and theres basically no promotion.

alright, chill

theres also a lot of productivity and creative software that does. linux for work is way better than linux for gaming and id bet 80%+ of people can work off it much better.

if that is connected to the internet, its probably infested

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