It reads like, "I think my office chair is sentient."

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How much did Microsoft pay for a bit of product placement--that bit them in the...

I run Mint on all of my systems, 2 duel-boot Windows 11 from separate drives. I have some games; I should be more adventurous. I use Wine for Irfanview and 7Zip, and I am...getting used to it. Proton is supposed to be a good thing; I hope all the fixes are open.

I generally shut off shader cache's. I have a Samsung 840, that has been used for video editing. Oddly, it still works. Although shader caches are a pittance compared to video editing, every little bit wears SSD's out. BTW, the 4TB Samsung 990 Series NVMe I was looking at six months ago, went up from $385 to $621. In the end--even excessive logging wears SSD's, as a whole block is written for even a one byte update.

There is no reason why billionaires should have a separate lawset.

...although the drug by itself is useless; it needs people, too.

From the getgo, most of he sites you visit, you will be checked for AI--because AI has scraped everything from the internet, copyrights or not. Add to that problem. we are already seeing raising unemployment, oil-eating/planet-warming data centers, billionaires becoming even richer so they can meddle with you government--and for what?

Someone call Okabe.

You don't need your refrigerator wired into the internet--any more than you need cup holder on your computer.

Nope, wouldn't do it. Would not buy a car with a OS that only lasts a few years.

Imagine you are a Windows refugee desktop user. You install Wine, perhaps configure it. Now what? Now that it's better and that's the problem with making something work fairly well, is now the ledge bar goes up. I wish Wine's usability was better. I would like to see some (optional) integration in Mint or Debian, somehow. Also with 4K, I had issues even seeing well enough to change the settings.

With Wine, I mostly have the 2 applications I really need that are missing in Linux: Full copy of 7Zip ( File Roller does not have enough settings), and Irfanview, which seems to have no equal under Linux, although, Xnconvert does do some chores. In the case of File roller, there is so much more power in 7zip, like much higher compression ratios, which are not available--without either command-line or the Windows GUI.

and we, we could move all of our nuclear waste up there. We're going to need some kind of space ship for moon-based chores. Wait! I have it, we can call them "Eagles", and we're going to need a lot of them....

Well, at least it's secure, right?
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