One of the differences these days is that marginalized groups are having their existences threatened… and not hollow threats, but meaningful ones that have had, and continue to have, very real consequences in the form of policies, hate crimes, etc.

That is legitimate, very real violence, and it results in very understandable hostility. And then those perpetuating, supporting, and celebrating the violence pretend they are victims when people treat them like the orcs they are.

“Why are you being so divisive?” “You’re not very TOLERANT of different opinions, are you?” “Why are you so angry all the time, snowflakes?”

Violent bullies need to be put in their place, and with more than just “hostility on the internet”.

I know there are as many distros as there are stars in the sky, but definitely give it a test drive! It’s one of the better distros out there IMO, especially for gaming.

Yes. It’s very healthy and actively maintained by System76.

Oh they know how to do it. They are just desperate to swindle existing owners since their vehicle sales have fallen off a cliff.

It’s almost as if college isn’t about bettering yourself but paying a racket so you can check off a mandatory box on your resume for the pleasure of your corporate liege-lords…

That’s now how you spell “crows”!

Gotta protect that illegal, anticompetitive trust at all costs.

Pop_OS or Bazzite, IMO.

Unfortunately, Ubuntu is corporate bloatware these days.

Not really. It’s just called “Teams” now.

Same. It’s a red flag for me and I’m less likely to do any business with them if ai can help it. The time to leave was a long, long time ago. There is no excuse for it now.

That is absolutely an issue I have, but it’s a whole separate can of worms. One I could talk about all day. Right now I’m just comparing Epics meaningless, useless review system against Steam.

Aww, and I here I was hoping multiple vendors were FINALLY going to contribute to mobile linux.

So it’s Google Glass.

That’s literally just Google Glass.

Who would even want that?

You should be able to do so many amazing things with AR… in theory. But we clearly don’t have the tech to make it a reality. Even Apple’s headset, with all its theoretical power, can’t do basic AR things like real-time object recognition and tracking. It’s little more than an iPad you wear on your face. That’s not AR. In theory, Apple Vision has the power to do that stuff. So why doesn’t it? Why can’t it? What did they do wrong?

I don’t disagree that’s a problem, but that is not what I said or implied. That’s the reason Steam has other mechanisms for scoring and scaling reviews. There are plenty of valid reasons for “review bombing” that are organic and natural consequences of developer activity: like adding Denuvo a year after release, adding a launxher or login/account requirement after the fact, etc. Making reviews “invite only” is anti-consumer.

Ancient stories are almost always parabolic. If there’s not a lesson to be made, then it’s not preserved. Recording history only for history’s sake a fairly modern value. So you’re absolutely right. Ancient texts, especially scriptures, tend to attribute things to god whenever it’s convenient for the narrative.

The way Epics reviews work are awful, though. They are trying to be really attractive to developers but they aren’t attractive enough to USERS.

For example, you have to be INVITED to review games on Epic. The system is automated and will occasionally ask for a review after you close a game, assuming you’ve been playing long enough. They claim it’s to avoid things like “review bombing”, but that’s a cop-out to shield bad developers/publishers from the repercussions of their actions (like when Denuvo was non-consensually added to Ghostwire Tokyo a year after release).

Google is abusing most of their workforce through major pay cuts.

Fixed that title for you, Business Insider.

Oh… oh no…

It’s a bummer than those sound like bad things simply because corporate abuse is always a forgone conclusion. If your data was truly private and always entirely under your control and ONLY your control, those would be really attractive features.