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I’m been a Linux power user for more than half of my life, 8 last years spent on NixOS. I self-host my everything. I’ve bootstrapped a toolchain and a Linux distro from scratch^Wtcc for giggles twice, first without a package manager, then without one. For the last five years, I earn a living by working on a Linux distro. I still have my only decent GPU in a Windows 10 box half a continent away I stream games from. Would you be able to convince me to switch?

Just face it, Windows is the gaming console firmware.

I once played XCOM 2 with a stylus. Ended up adding a 6DOF mouse for thether hand because bouncing around the map without it was atrocious.

Gamepads rule. There are one-handed ones as well.

Get rid of the dGPU power comsumption at all costs, as it’s underpowered for anything serious.

Enable Intel AMT so that you get hardware level remote control, including power control.

Afet that it’s a now-weak power-hungry CPU with weak cooling, but a decent amount of RAM, so, IDK, a buildserver or a VM host for scenarios when something needs to happen in the background, but latency doesn’t matter.

Ahem. While skipping the vanilla XCOM 2 straight for WOTC is a decent idea, the plot literally grows out of EU/EW! Having at least one attempt at the direct prequel is pretty much a must.

Oh wow, I’ve abandoned Thumbkey on a Fold, but I didn’t know of Flickboard.

We’re in a rogualike thread.

Yeah, except there’s no video link.

I had to write https://github.com/t184256/podcastify / https://github.com/t184256/yousable to actually get videos. Now, when I’ve done that, Bob’s my uncle. Actually usable YouTube with automatic predownloading, local playback and no ads.

You’re this close to inventing plain old files, synchronized.

Blockchain is legit useful for government-bypassing banking. Complete fucking bullshit use-cases for hallucinating intellectual property infringement machines are, like, each and every of their use cases.

Mine are supported by Gadgetbridge and have no WiFi. Sounds secure enough to me.

It’s been 6 more months, so, here’s your answer.

You can’t kill 12+% when you’re in a demographics hole.

I’m coming from an oppressive dictatorship that kills people for disagreeing with them. One thing to enables them to is voter anonymity. An oppressive MAGA husband example is cute, ofc, but I wasn’t solving “how do we make people vote with there heart is”, this is kinda out of scope and definitely not crucial for a functional democracy, but wishlist-grade at best.

Now, voter bribery is a good one. Never thought of that and can see how this could be a much more sizeable problem.

Shareholders, who else?

Uh, no. We already have dozens of publicly characterestics to discrinate people against, we can handle one more for a huge benefit of never ever doubting election count results again.

Electronic voting works wonders. All you need to sacrifice is anonymity.

That 1 megapixel brick wider than my laptop? Won?

Oh sure, they didn’t take away everything. The weight stayed.

Enjoy your dongle hell.

Yeah, and this brings no tangible UX or security benefits and is only ever used because last-century package managers can’t manage packages, containers are glorified chroots.

NixOS because all the other ones differ about as much as Windows 10 from Windows 11. Guix doesn’t count.