Even if you get past the technical reasons of why this won’t work well, artistically, your avatar will clash with any game that’s not targeting these avatars.
You would think so, but my Mii fits in perfectly.
(Uh, hopefully it’s obvious that I’m bullshitting. I can’t believe how stupid Mii looked in various Nintendo games. It takes a special kind of leadership at Netflix not to have learned from Nintendo’s… experience.)
But they’re too late! I’m too entrenched in the Nintendo ecosystem, with my perfectly formed Mii that I demand to play as in a variety of games.
If only they had thought of this sooner!
Nice! Thanks for sharing this analysis.
I thought our primary way of producing new Linux users was sexual reproduction and then indoctrination from birth…
Interesting. I would have guessed that Mint gave ChromeOS a run for it’s money, by now.
Yes. By the porn stats, Linux already crushes ChromeOs. Let’s not take any advice from it.
I’m not sure Grandma and Grandpa would want a steam machine as a replacement for their aging Windows 7 home computer.
Fair. But for my gram, it would have been a slam dunk day one buy. She loved her playstation and only tolerated her PC. She would have called a Steam Machine “my game console that can check email” and would have adored it.
There’s a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.
Hmm. That matches my recent napkin math guessing where they would land.
It’s a little short of what they probably need, but they can always raise prices in a few months.
What’s up with the Rust hate?
The Rust community keeps trying to rewrite key pieces of Linux that aren’t broken.
They probably have the right idea, in the long run, but it’s still fun to give them a hard time about it.
Good info, thanks!
I route my email through my domain names, and so I can reroute emails at the DNS level, but I can see this being important to some folks.
Tuta deletes free accounts that have not been logged into for 6 months.
This, and I heard that some legitimate newly registered free accounts have been wiped a couple days later by anti-bot automation. So I guess one would want to age their Tuta account (or you know, just pay for it) before they trust it with too much.
I’ve had a free Tuta account for some time without any issues.
I see Proton and Tuta recommended here, often.
I also see complaints about both (Proton’s politics and Tuta’s tendency to lock and clean free accounts).
Both seem better than Google, who seem to be tightening their grip on those unable to walk away.
I expect that’s why the internet’s been falling apart lately.
I’m sure it is.
It’s been interesting to see people not really getting angry about it, yet.
Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?
I’m hearing you like to reboot your machine unusually often.
The reason I can think of where clicking would be a huge pain in the ass is an automatic task. I have some of those, but I put them on machines that I treat as servers, and the time between reboots is genuinely counted in years, for those machines.
At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.
I wasn’t before, but now I am.
I find your argument distasteful. If you want a server, use a server. But there’s no need to shout to the world that servers require command line use. That’s normal in 2025.
If you treat your laptop like a server, that’s okay. No one is judging. But my grandma isn’t doing that, and it rings hollow to complain so loudly about it in a thread about average users enjoying Linux Mint.
An average user will never even notice the issue you have been complaining about, while enjoying the product for free.
I don’t normally tell people to go open a pull request, but you should do so, if only to get a better understanding of what the community has already given you for free.
Yes. I guess that’s fair though. Most people don’t like change.
So you’re complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot…
That’s rough, buddy.
I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.
In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.
My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me “Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?”
It’s been a pretty cool thing to watch.
I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.
Sometimes by the time I’ve tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.
Exactly!
Hated product? Oh well. My paycheck still cashes.
Harmful product? Oh shit. Sorry boss. I’m still working on that. It’s been confusing, but we almost got it. Annnyyyy day now, boss. Pretty sure we will get it on track next sprint. Or the one after. (Source: I once got well paid to “accidentally” kill at least one truly shit-head idea. It probably cost me a pay raise, but I left soon after for more money, and I’m still proud of that every time I reflect back on it.)