Switched to Linux around the time Windows 11 was first announced to be a mandatory update, and all the bullshit about security.

I started out with Ubuntu, now I’ve been using Bazzite for over a year.

The programs I use, Gimp, Krita, Blender3D, Audacity, OBS, all have Linux native versions, and are generally part of the FOSS community anyway. Well, except for Audacity right now…

So my artistic work hasn’t been hindered in the least.

Games are a slightly different story. I switched from an nVidia GTX 1060 6GB to an Intel Arc A770. Overall a significant upgrade, but there are issues. Some I had with Blender3D not recognising the card (something that was largely solved by switching distro). Other problems still persist, specifically with Intel Arc, Linux, and UE5.

UE5 is an absolute hateable bitch and some combination of Linux and Intel Arc provides no end of trouble. I still can’t get certain games to run (i.e. Oblivion Remastered).

I look at that photo and think “hell yeah!”

Intel Arc card. Though, to be fair, it’s only in a small few cases.

My car drives Arch, by the way.

He thinks he stopped 8 wars? Which 8 wars?

You mean pirated Photoshop, right? :D

… You mean pirated Photoshop… Right? :|

Sucks to be you.

American “reassurance” is a “trust me bro” with no backing and no consequences for them if they break it.

I mean… Palantir showed Denethor false images of doom and despair fed by Sauron. It drove him to become a completely mad tyrant.

I think Palantir is a very apt name. They just don’t realise why.

The… um… the… printer… that ran out of ink? Maybe the microwave that made the plate hot, but the food is still cold?

There are plenty of Americans who worship Trump… In a literal sense… And are perfectly fine with ICE indiscriminately shooting people.

Are you trying to make a point?

Sure, but what does this have to do with the riots in Iran?

And my dad just went to visit Iran for two months…

I can ask the Iranian side of my family to explain exactly how full of shit you are. Wouldn’t be for constructive reasons; I doubt you can be taught anything. But it sure would be entertaining.

Haven’t seen that happen yet.

They tend to pool in a certain subset of lemmy instances, and some of the main instances have defederated them, because at one point it got pretty bad.

He said, unironically, on Lemmy.

I’m keeping it around because at some point in the future the Switch 2 will get hacked, and boy am I going to have some sailing to do.

A tankie is a kind of person who likes Imperialism and expansionism so long as it comes from something related to, as the other user said, Marxist-Leninism.

The origin of Marxist-Leninism is Russia, so they support Russia invading things, and committing warcrimes, and make all sorts of excuses for such acts.

Today they’re primarily in support of the Russian side in the Russo-Ukranian war, do not consider it an invasion of a sovereign nation, and consider it fully justified as an act to oppose “NATO expansion”.

Essentially, to a tankie, nothing “goes too far” if they can somehow connect it to a Marxist-Leninist agenda, and behave the same way about Putin as a right-wing American behaves about Trump.

Nearly forgot; the name “tankie” comes from how Russia overwhelmingly uses tanks to invade territories.

“I am bad at managing my finances, and eventually need to get bailed out by the government, or end up next to the homeless guy I used to make fun of”.

• This guy.