Cethin

There are tons of vehicles vehicles than can drive off road without 4WD. Most of Rally racing has been done with rear wheel drive vehicles, and they’re actually racing, not just casually driving. The reason a truck might not be able to handle it is because trucks are actually not set up well for it, unless they’re loaded. Like the comment above says, the weight distribution is bad for it, until you load the bed. This isn’t true for an EV truck. The weight is further back, so the rear wheels won’t lose traction as easily.

Anyone who thinks they need 4WD to off-road doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Can it help? Sure. Is it required? Far from it.

I don’t disagree, but I feel like the actual Mr. Rogers probably created a lot of Anarchists on his own! I think everything he teaches is not just cohesive with, but runs parallel to, Anarchist teachings. Taking care of yourself and your community is the foundation of Anarchism. I don’t know if being explicit would necessarily help, and it could push some people away from hearing the message.

He was too friendly with cops though.

I don’t disagree, when done poorly by industry giants. There are some smaller games that have done it well, as just a way to find development. It isn’t purely bad, and in a world where things are this unaffordable it can be good to keep in mind. Ethical MTX can exist that don’t ruin the experience. It just isn’t what these massive companies want.

Something like the DRG founder’s pack, for example, is pretty good, or the Stationeers DLCs, which add purely optional ways to play that change how things work, which is only really useful to experienced players.

Edit: You’ve gotta love the downvotes. What is bad about the DRG model, if you disagree. If you don’t have an answer, why are you downvoting?

A quick and controversial argument in favor of MTX: MTX allows them to extract more money from those with excess, subsidizing the game for those who can’t afford to pay as much. Sure, when it’s done poorly it’s horrible. It can be a good thing though, like a supporter edition bundle that gives you like an icon next to your name or something.

Budget management should still be the primary option. Does your game need to cost this much to make, such that you have to have insane revenue to make up for it? Could you make something cheaper that’s just as good (if not better, as limitations are the mother of creativity, or however that phrase goes)?

It’s almost certainly both. It’s not like alcohol is the only drug humans have used. Most do not have that justification, yet they’re still used.

Risky ≠ evil though. Yeah, some are easier to OD, and some are more addictive. People should be educated on the effects and dangers before using them. However, “hard drug” is used not as a term for danger, but a term for morality.

As for the gun thing, it’s not really the same. The thing with guns is it posses a danger to others. Drugs (usually) only pose a danger to yourself. We evolved to use drugs. Using them in the proper way in the proper context should not be stigmatized or illegal. Obviously using them in a way that does put others at risk should be though, and heavily.

I just don’t really care for the way Cononical does things.

Garuda at least was trivial to get going. You install it and it has everything you need, then it also has a tool where you can select any other packages you may want. It’s pretty nice. I’ve heard CachyOS is really easy to get going too. You basically don’t need to use the terminal for them if you really don’t want to, but it is significantly easier to do a lot of things with it. If you managed to install Fedora, you’ll be fine with either of these too. They’re no harder than Fedora or Ubuntu except you get the bonus of the Arch Wiki for anything you might need.

The thing about drugs is, as far as I’m aware, the “hard drug” thing is bullshit, and it’s part of the problem. We give drugs to kids all the time, in the form of caffeine. Most people have a caffeine dependance and at least casually use alcohol.

I dislike that we treat some drugs as evil, and others as part of our daily lives. The should all be handled with proper education and care. People should actually be made aware of what addiction feels like, and how to handle it. They should also be informed of what certain drugs feel like and have access to harm reduction techniques if needed.

Drugs aren’t evil. They are often dangerous though. They have been a part of human culture for longer than we’ve been human. We should be free to use them if we choose, and this should be able to be done safely.

The thing with Fedora is they will not ship with anything that isn’t FOSS. This means some things will be missing, like video codex as an example. You can add whatever you need to it, but you’ll sometimes have a starting point that needs more things added than another distro would. Also, tutorials may not include Fedora directions.

Personally, I’ve been using Garuda for a few years, and it’s been great. I used Fedora for a bit before and ditched it. Garuda is Arch-based, so Arch tutorials directions work, and you get all the benefits of Arch without the work. CachyOS should be similar.

Personally, I don’t care for Ubuntu. I used it before Fedora and I preferred Fedora.

Your choice of distro doesn’t matter insofar as you can fix any issues you have with one, and it can be modified to work like any other.

Your choice of distro does matter in the fact that your time is limited and you probably don’t want to spend days making your system work exactly like you want from a base point that was far away from that. You should choose a distro that minimizes the gap between what you want and what you get out of the box.

You just need to choose one that seems right, then you can make the modifications you need. Just make a choice though. It’ll be fine if you just picked something that seems close enough.

There’s also the NSA PRISM, which is older than the current LLM garbage. It’s just a basic ass name that makes for a good pun on something that changes how you see things.

If that happens, Google becomes a monopoly, if it isn’t already. They don’t want this (or at least they haven’t, but they might think it won’t matter now). If they continue wanting Firefox to be relevant to help their argument that they aren’t a monopoly, they’ll do what they can to ensure Firefox continues to work.

That’s like saying that github is equivalent to the Microsoft store. Sure, they provide the space for the repository. It’s controlled by users though, as the name implies. It isn’t the official repository, like the Microsoft store is the official “repository” for Windows.

I think they’re currently taking extra precautions, because of this event. I don’t think they were vetting users before. Regardless, it’s significantly less controlled than the Microsoft store. The equivalent of that is the official repository, not the user repository.

FYI, CachyOS is Arch based. It has access to the AUR. If you weren’t effected, that proves the point.

The AUR is a repository of last resort. It’s useful, but you should be careful. That’s true even before this even. It’s a repository made by users, and is not verified.

It’s perfectly valid. The US can easily say that Israel doesn’t get the weapons it relies on if they don’t do what they’re told. If they don’t have these weapons then they’re probably fucked because of how many enemies they’ve made. They don’t have a choice but to listen to an America that is willing to say no. Is that what we have though? I don’t think so, but maybe.

The thing is, as far as I’m aware, he wasn’t even trying to fix the problems. He was, in almost the Trumpiest way possible (the only thing more Trump would be to use fake gold), just trying to gild the lilly. It was purely about appearance, not function.

This is so stupid. We can talk about things that would only benefit a tiny number of people without mentioning them every time. This comment is like saying “talking about eating pork is antisemitic.” No it isn’t. It isn’t ableist to not mention something. Ableist is a specific hatred against otherly-abled/disabled/whatever term people.

Sure. I don’t want that though. Whatever benefit smart glasses could provide can also be provided by just a phone. If you want slightly faster access, a smart watch works too, with slightly less ability for input. Smart glasses, with no camera, can only display this same information, but it’s right in your face. Also, without cameras, the only input it could have is on the side of your head, which seems horrible.

AR has some utility I would like. Am I a fan of them putting cameras everywhere? No, so I probably wouldn’t buy a pair of AR glasses (and would discourage it of others too). Do I see the functionality? Sure, which I don’t see for smart glasses.