I just switched from Windows to Linux a few weeks ago. Not sure about a replacement for visual studio, but I haven’t had an issue finding an open source application to do anything I did in windows. As for gaming, it works way better than I expected it to, but it’s still not as good overall IMHO. Some games run better without all the bloat of Windows 11, other games run way worse because they aren’t optimized in Linux, it’s been a bit of a crapshoot. For remote desktop, I use the thincast client to connect to other machines, and XRDP on my VMs. Thincast and xrdp work together better than AVD and the Windows App, by a longshot.

My 4 part plan to put Microsoft back on track.

1: Re-open support for Windows 10 until at least 2 years after the release date of the next version of Windows.

2: Commit to making the next version of Windows less intrusive, cleaner, more reliable, and a small as technically possible.

3: Fully fund the open source projects that Microsoft relies on for their products.

4: Make Co-pilot an optional toolkit that runs in the background, with tight, easily configured controls and hook-ins to other applications and data.

Please put me in charge of Microsoft. I’ll do it for a measly 10 million dollars a year. You’ll save so much on my salary alone, you practically can’t afford not to hire me.

Chances are, if your town has a resivoir or dam, it was built in such a way to flood out or fuck over a thriving black community.

I’m still curious what kinda scam that perpetually-screaming-dude-in-armor ads are pushing. I don’t even know what the title of the game is, but that annoying shit must work on a lot of people I guess.

3-4 is a generous underestimate.

That’s fine… Unless that unborn young woman is also pregnant.

They think it’s “god’s will” until it happens to them.

People get shot at the drive thru because Burger King ran out of ketchup packets.

It’s only a matter of time until one of these squads of door-kicking ICE goons gets perforated on a suburban front lawn.

well do you have a gun license?

Tell me you’re describing your own lack of experience with firearms without telling me you’re describing your own lack of experience with firearms.

Tally-ho boys!

I just read an article stating that Ford lost 36k on every EV they sold in 2023… In a market where they had government protection from Chinese EVs.

I think you would be surprised. The problem really comes from the car not being a good shape to put solar panels on. I did the math a while back, and I only needed 200w of panels to cover my weekly driving.

That’s what the batteries are for?

Source : I drive an EV on cloudy days.

^^ This.

They can’t replace prosecutors with dumbfuck loyalist and expect to have successful prosecutions.

They’re already trying this with Alina Habba, and that experiment is a disaster on such a scale that it would be Frontline news… Were it not for the news about the first shots of a civil war, or the president being a human-trafficking pedophile, or an unwarranted military action in Venezuela, or the disinitigration of NATO over Greenland…

My WiFi wouldn’t work until I disabled fast-boot in the BIOS and restarted the system twice.

TBF, even with that headache, setting up a windows 11 machine without signing up for an account and personalized ads takes more effort. So I consider it a total success.

Shutdown doesn’t actually turn off the PC anymore. You need to do a restart if you actually want to “shut down” the computer all the way.

I see way too many systems where the CPU has been up for more than 100 days.

My wife does this and it kinda bugs me. I have some Native American ancestry, but I don’t know who it was, my family hasn’t been carrying down tribal traditions. So I wouldn’t claim that I am partially Native American. I’m a white dude stuck on stolen land, claiming a birthright to their heritage is just an attempt to steal the last fucking thing Native Americans have been allowed to keep.

Fox news already admitted (multiple times) that their programs are not news, and that no sane person would consider it news.

I think we need a law that says if a media organization is guilty of intentionally spreading fake news, that they need to spend an equal amount of time and effort on correcting the story.

So if fox spent 4 years spreading disinfo about the 2020 election, then they need to spend 4 years, on the same timeslots, broadcasts, and webpages, reporting that they intentionally spread disinfo.

Also, they should have to run a “surgeon general anti-smoking” style banner on all their programming that says “FOX INSISTS THAT THEIR CONENT IS NOT NEWS AND DOES NOT ACCURATELY REPORT FACTS AND CONTEXT.”

Yeah. I’d like to see the NG stop every vehicle going in and out of the ICE facility.

“Just running a quick check boys. Where are you going? What are you going to do there? Do you have a signed judicial warrant? Okay, we’ll get you there. You’ll have a leading and a tailing escort vehicle, and 8 armed National guardsmen to ‘protect you’. Once you have executed your judicial warrant, you will be escorted back to this facility”

Basically, make sure that everything is on the up and up every time these guys go out. I think enforcing a bureaucratic slog will kill the raging gestapo cosplay boner these ICE troopers have.

Yeah, you can’t yell at someone to RTFM when they didn’t opt to use the product, and the “manual” is just a barrage of question on a Microsoft support forum where every answer goes to a Microsoft.learn page that hasn’t been updated since 8.1.