American culture warriors have decided that their ideology is more important - you see this a lot where their ideology’s goal becomes the “greater cause” worth sacrificing the mission: e.g. in journalism.

To bully those who don’t share their American liberal politics.

This is crazy guilt by association.

Religion

Because now you can just use Linux or BSD. That wasn’t the case when Linux was developed.

So it only really makes sense for special cases - like Huawei’s new OS for phones (they cannot use Android), or Google’s attempt at a new kernel for Android too (they want to escape the GPL).

Mullvad was already forced to stop port forwarding though.

It sucks as my shitty ISP doesn’t allow port forwarding, so I literally used it for hosting video games.

They blocked Github before - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50232902

So it’s not surprising.

It’s gonna be rough when they come for the VPNs like Italy has though.

This has already happened. Just the niche communities haven’t migrated away yet.

It’ll be fine, I’d argue Arch is actually more “stable” in the ordinary sense since it is simpler - in that partial upgrades are not allowed. So you never end up in a complicated mess like aptitude can be.

I’ve used Arch for over a decade now, and have only had issues 3 or 4 times (usually from the nvidia driver).

And the flat I live in… This stuff does not belong on markets to be sold for profits

But markets are why you were able to buy it.

Here in Sweden they do rent control with the first hand contracts system and it just leads to extreme corruption. So a few lucky people pay ~400 EUR a month in the city centre, meanwhile normally you’d pay 1800. They sub-let them illegally, and anyone moving in from outside the city (no 10 years on the city housing queue) faces an extortionate, unregulated black market.

Markets are the solution, not the problem. We just need freedom in construction too, so supply can match demand.

I never tried the Bose ones, they have great reviews too though.

Yeah, it’s a shame for passing on books I guess - like my dad had loads of books by Hugh Cook, an obscure fantasy / sci-fi author, and they’re out of print completely now.

At least in the future digitisation should stop that completely though.

Kindle - all the books, all the time.

Sony WH1000-XM3 (I guess newer models are still good) - excellent noise cancelling, perfect for flights

Steam Deck - play almost any games, anywhere, and with a full desktop mode too.

In the past I’d have put the Acer Aspire One, I loved the netbook form factor, now I use either the Vivobook or Steam Deck like that.

The Aeropress is also great for quick, simple coffee.

This stops them releasing a more powerful home version though. As SteamOS/Linux will not be able to support modern HDMI2.1 features.

The 2000s for sure - from early online games and MMORPGs to a lot of forums, when Slashdot and Reddit were good, the start of Wikipedia, etc.

There was more optimism around everyone communicating with eachother internationally, and fostering communities. Nowadays it feels everything is dominated by a few big monopolies, and there’s a lot more censorship.

But I don’t think that can manage 4k 60Hz HDR + Dolby Atmos, etc. that modern games consoles have?

The DRM is so stupid - now in the era of streaming you can get literally anything webripped day1.

DRM is obsolete (and it never really wasn’t tbh).

Tell Samsung that for my TV…

This destroys any chance of Valve making an Xbox-competitive home console with SteamOS :(

With that budget I find it hard to imagine you could beat the Raspberry Pi, but please post what you do find!