I no longer view gatekeeping necessarily as a bad thing. In fact, it can be sometimes be necessary to preserve communities.

I've also learned over the years that the only people who succeed in migrating to linux are those who both considerably desire to do so while also having a level of technical competency somewhere north of average. Anyone else is just being strung along by a "helpful" linux evangelist in their family or friends group, and will ultimately drop the solution at the first sign of trouble and frustration.

What's wrong with /proc/*info and dmidecode?

I really enjoy there being a natural filter through this process. I'd rather people who lack the willpower or cognitive capacity to complete an install be kept within the confines of Windows.

If they succeed in fully blocking mitigations, then I will simply drop youtube (and the content it holds hostage) from my life. I've done this with other proprietary abusers.

You're being compelled to use Outlook over some other email service?

A Prius with a Ukraine sticker slapped on the hatchback.

Aren't we lucky to be living in the age of human history in which governments are good and honest? Not like those old, backwards governments in history books who would dress up their soldiers as the enemy's and order them to do something heinous.

Nice try, glowboy

I would have omitted the last panel.

Much of it is just functionality by way of ffmpeg, which is also an excellent program.

So, what would you say are the two non immigration issues on the Republican side?

I can't speak definitively for them, but I could just flip the words around from your 3 Democrats issues:

Abortion rights, gun control

*magic swisharoo noises

• Gun rights
• Abortion control

It sounds like you were on the end of the chain in a game of telephone.

When Fred Trump III asked his uncle Donald Trump for money to help with his disabled son's medical care, he says the former U.S. president suggested letting the young man die instead.

I could see how politicized media could morph that into "disabled people should just die" for clicks, though.

It was a stab at women, actually. No, I don't regret it.

I have nothing against transatlantic people, nor their accents.

Using workarounds to attempt to get foreign software running on an operating system for which is was never built is always going to be fraught with problems.

If the game isn't distributed compiled for your platform, then you are a second class citizen and no amount of API wrappers, translation layers, VMs or whatever will ever address the core issue.

Running a game in Proton (Wine) is not playing on Linux. It is your linux environment contorting itself and doing miraculous back flips in the hope of convincingly coaxing the Windows binary game into thinking that it is running on an actual Windows host.

Soft solution: Purchase games that are properly developed and released targeting your platform natively.

Hard solution: Graduate from playing games and move on with your life. (btw mine improved a lot after putting gaming behind me for good. + I can now use whatever computer hardware and software I damn well please)

Fuck Putin, by the way.

Captain, we're being scanned!

So if a console came out next year that also exceeded Windows in the quantity of games, you which ditch your gaming PC and switch over to New Console™ in a heartbeat?

Fun side note: When I'd remoted into our medical client's workstations, there were more than a handful of occasions where the recipient on the other end had only just finished frantically closing out Netflix tabs.

Things like this make me hope very much that I my physical health holds out for decades to come.

Why do conservatives believe gay, trans, black, brown, Liberals, and the disabled deserve to die?

Answer: A Windows PC + all of the consoles + all of the handhelds + both major mobile device brands.

It just depends on how much you're willing to sell your soul... in order to amuse yourself.