with nuclear fusion electricity is practically free.

Like that’ll ever happen under capitalism.

That’s how I feel about cell phones.

Linux phones might be able to do something about that, assuming they become good enough soonish. Perhaps usable Hurd phones will become available first.

Also tired of terms at restaurants like “Gluten Aware”, “Gluten Conscious”, etc. Then you find out everything is still going in the same fryer

At least they’re aware of it.

citizens are workers that can’t be fired

I’d guess that they’re looking to change that in the USA.

Is rhe default location /usr/share/shelter/ by chance?

What size is “big” for wheat bags? Itcs 25kg, so about the same as dirt bags, IIRC.

At the end of the second paragraph, you’re missing a space between “not” & “simply”.

In you third paragraph, you used the singular “tends” instead of the plural “tend”. In addition, though I believe the sentence to be grammatically correct even without them, adding commas before & after “as in principle” would make the sentence a bit clearer.

Finally, your last paragraph. The second sentence is quite long, it would be more readable if you added commas before the “and” & after the second “it’s”. A comma could be placed just after “Often”, but the sentence remains legible even without it. The sentence could use quotation marks to improve readability further, which would end the sentence on a question mark followed by an ending quote. This would be grammatically correct in American English, but as the sentence is not a question, a period should be added to the end. While it may have been intentional, for comedic effect, “biq” should be “big” & “mystake”, “mistake”. If I’ve understood the sentence correctly, the newly-corrected “mistake” should be in its plural form, “mistakes”, and be followed by a comma. The sentence should also end with a period.

You can’t - usually, depending on the license - just repackage OSS and sell it.

I’m pretty sure you can. GNU’s Selling Free Software is for the GPL & doesn’t specifically address selling someone else’s OSS. But you should (I think?) be able to, so long as you don’t violate the license. There are multiple views to selling foss, but I don’t think that many will object, if you for example sell Linux DVDs at a low cost. (Not common any more, but this has been done before, I’ve heard)

I don’t know much about Zorin, but selling foss is not inherently evil & illegal.

Tried it, got two 1 star reviews, no good ones. What did I do wrong?

I’m not sure if my brain counts as artificial, but with all the microplastics, it sure ain’t organic.

Not sure about Gates in particular, but if you donate to your own charity, then funnel it back, you’re not out of the complete 100B. You also get good PR out of it.

I’m very comfortable with emulators.

A way out & Cuphead were great. Would be nice to go back to get the remaining achievements. Who won when you played A Way Out?

How’s couch co-op these days? From what I remember, it’s more common in older console games.

Do you have any recommendations, retro or otherwise?

AAA-gamers are fairly pro status quo, otherwise they would’ve switched to playing the myriads of awesome indie games by now.

I think I understand your point. Personally, I use a desktop for gaming and a laptop for a most other things, like you used to. I use tiling WMs, so not having a real mouse is not so bad, but I prefer real keyboards.

I don’t think you need to move a gaming machine around that often and desktops have better thermals, are a lot more upgradeable and are easier to fix than laptops.

But sometimes portable gaming can be nice. For example, I play Mario Kart (Double Dash, of course) with my father every now and then, which wouldn’t really work with a desktop. It’s nice to be able to take a laptop and a few bluetooth controllers with me and be able to set up a portable retro gaming station literally anywhere.

I guess it’s just up to individual preference.

Yur english is barely readabl. Yu hav so many speling erors, ze bigest might be vriting rekvir vity tvo ‘v’.

Zat isn’t quit enugh to fix english. “Gh” kuld be replased wiz ‘f’ vher it vuld mak sens and ze same viz ‘x’ to “ks” & ‘y’ to ‘j’. Vhile duble leters as used nov shuld be simplifid, I think it kuld be useful to mark long vovels by using tvo of the same leter. Vhile zis vuld help a lot, ze most important shange I’l sugest is to use vovels that reflect ze pronunsiation. Vhen juu vant to vrait “smorgasbord” juu vuld insted vrait ze moor sensibl “smöörgoosbuurd”. Sadli, inglish is a horibl bodg of a languig, meid bai miksing vai too mani diferent languiges, so moor fikses aar veri velkom.

Just out of curiosity, why would you recommend a gaming laptop instead of a desktop?

Nvidia user here.

What kinds of problems did you face with AMD?

While Nvidia works pretty well now, it just doesn’t compare to my laptop with an intel iGPU, with which I’ve had no issues. Intel & AMD should offer a better out of the box experience.

It does depend on your GPU, distro & use, but in the best case scenario Nvidia will only match the alternatives and in the worst case you’ll have to tinker a bit, which new Linux users may not be comfortable with.

I haven’t had any new Nvidia-related issues in about a year, but I spent more time than I would’ve liked fixing those issues a year ago. I’m really curious about your experience with AMD if it was so horrible and left you longing for “how stable things were on the green team”.

I’m not saying OP should get one over the other, but OP shouldn’t let fanboys dictate their decision. They will try to do so without admitting that they’re fanboys, so we have to admit it for them.

TL;DR: Nvidia works well for most people, but can cause headaches for others.

While Nvidia GPUs mostly work pretty well, that’s only until they don’t. I’d recommend getting an AMD one instead, to avoid any future headaches. Though, if you prefer Nvidia for some reason, the situation will likely get better when the Nova driver gets released & NVK becomes a bit more optimized.