Downvotes aren’t even a thing on my instance. We only have the upvote button. I like it that way tbh :)

Yes, I know that I should move to Graphene before someone tells me.

Graphene user here.

Same issues here.

There are many reasons you should move to Graphene but this isn’t one of them.

Overly simplistic example:

• You have clothes. You need food.

• I have food. I don’t need clothes, but I do need water.

• Someone else has water. They need clothes.

We could do a complicated multi-party trade. Or, rather than set one of those up for every single necessity of life, find some item that everyone’s willing to trade for. Instead of using items which have intrinsic value such as gold (which we’d presumably also have to trade for), we can use a token whose only purpose is to be that universal item. We call that “money”.

The way we represent that token isn’t really important. It can be metal discs. It can be pieces of paper. It can be numbers in a computer system. But crucially, because everyone is willing to trade what they have for some amount of money, we can each trade the things we have too much of for money, and then trade that money for the things we need.

Again, this is overly simplistic and missing a hell of a lot of nuance. But that’s how money works in the most basic possible terms.

Filters are your friends. :)

This feels like a good time to remind everyone that your local public library probably has public printers available for a small fee, and if you don’t print regularly, it’ll likely work out far cheaper.

Who or what is a a16z?

Here in the UK, retailers have been pretending Black Friday has always been a thing. In reality it only arrived here a few years ago. The first year, it was crazy. The second year, it was underwhelming. A few years on, we have Black Friday Week which actually lasts two weeks (this week and next). Internally we call it Black Friday Month, which should give you some idea of the eventual endgame.

As someone who’s proudly working class and who works in a supermarket in the middle of a chavvy town - thanks for this.

Proton as a company is mildly infuriating all by itself.

There are literally "t"s in the screenshot.

Your argument is invalid.

Japanese only has 46 letters? So we’re completely ignoring the existence of Kanji?

When my Graphene’d Pixel 7 goes out of support I’m switching to something Linux based even if I have to get a Raspberry Pi and a case and carry around a brick. My handbag’s big enough.

There can be more than one bad guy.

I thought we were the United Federation of Planets Shitposts?

Thanks. Let me check my understanding here. You don’t trust Canonical, but you do trust Red Hat?

Why?

Not judging or anything. Just curious why it’s your go-to. Mine’s either “Ubuntu” or “try several live distros, see what you like the feel of before installing one”.

Personally I’d pick Xubuntu but that’s just me. Try a few different live distros and see what clicks?

Why not just get one distro that does both?

Excuse me, this is a Linux community, I’m afraid you’re going to have to leave.

/joke

idk, but I use Ubuntu and pretty much everything on Steam works for me. I’ve only ever come across three games I wanted to and couldn’t play, two of them are Epic gacha trash, and the other one’s Skyrim with dll mods (non-dll mods work fine).