Manjaro here. It’s essentially Arch with a pleasant installer, reasonable defaults, and a nice desktop theme. I recently had to switch from the KDE build to the Gnome build because KDE does NOT seem to get along with Nvidia GPU drivers right now. Now it’s butter. Use Lutris to manage your windows games in their own little sandboxes, 9/10 games you’d swear they’re native software. Some actually run better under linux than under Windows 11. Cities Skylines 2 was the most dramatic example. Like 20 extra fps.

There are effectively zero commercial VPN services that will permit P2P traffic on their free servers, because they would be instantly swamped if they did. The few that do permit it for free, you have to ask yourself how they’re paying for that bandwidth.

Oh that’s not the moon, that’s Yonus, The Infinite Architect. Easy mistake to make.

It’s AI yeah. Look at all the tech on the table in the middle, it all just dissolves into sludge. Also, it’s hard to articulate, but there’s something about the way current image generation models generate transparent materials, such as that squat little water bottle in the foreground, that always jumps out to me. I suspect because it’s primarily learned what drink container should look like from overlit advertisements.

Drugs, BDSM, and the smug satisfaction that I was always right.

Utterly based.

Ha, no, we don’t have the kind of political system which would make such small parties useful. Anyone who isn’t in one of the big two is essentially disenfranchised.

On Android I highly recommend Retro Music, it’s free and open source, available on the FDroid store. It’s fast, has a great interface, and supports ~gapless flac playback~

So that’s like. That’s the receiver from some dinky varmint rifle, and I’m just guessing like a homemade cast aluminum frame? Am I understanding this correctly? Honestly got to respect the effort.

Well we won, obviously.

The Marx household was the original punk house.

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Unforced error.

Cool, still gonna steal em.

In the last drug store I worked in, about 3 years ago, before I quit they went through the makeup department and put hanger locks on every single item in the department. A massive about of extra effort for the already laborious task of stocking that section.

The result? Makeup continues to get stolen, but now no one buys any either, because the department never gets restocked. It’s too time consuming. So the section always looks barren. Everybody just goes to sephora instead.

I could have told them this, but who would listen to some girl with no business degree to wave around?

Can’t wait to go there in Hitman 4.

The fifteen minute city concept is threatening to the right, so like with so many terms they are diluting their meaning to blunt their effect. They did this with “urban”, they are doing it now with the term “woke”, it’s a linguistic sabotage.

I worked in retail for years right up through the pandemic, in grocery and drug stores, and it’s really illuminating to experience that environment when you’ve already been inoculated against these taking points. Because there has been no increase in shoplifting.

Shoplifting has always been easy and commonplace, it happens every single day and it always has. The only thing that has changed is that people who work these jobs are being fed this narrative of a shoplifting crime wave, and have become more paranoid and hostile as a response.

In response to this cultural pressure, this propaganda effort to obscure and deflect awareness of drastically plunging buying power and general impoverishment, petty managers seeking a sense of control over perceived attacks on “their stores” (nonsense serf logic) are chaining everything to the floor. And this of course only worsens their declining sales, because why bother even trying to buy something in the store if you’re doing to do so legitimately if you have to ask someone to get it for you? You might as well have it delivered tomorrow by Amazon!