https://investors.yum.com/news-events/financial-releases/news-details/2023/Yum-Brands-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results-and-Increases-Dividend/default.aspx

We repurchased 10 million shares totaling $1.2 billion at an average price per share of $119.

They are just greedy. They have the money, but giving the money to the rich is evidently more important.

https://cwa-union.org/stock-buybacks-hurt-workers

What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do?

It’s a constant game of cat and mouse, an arms race till the end of time. You can’t block videos from ad-block users if you can’t tell which users are using adblock and which are not.

I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular

It’s quite complicated technologically, and requires quite a lot of storage space. Viewers only go where the creators go, and the creators have no reason to go to someplace that is more of a pain in the ass to host videos.

Shit like that is also a far, far better use of airspace/resources

It’s not even just that people don’t know about the green party, it’s that we are stuck with a voting system that is inherently biased against 3rd parties being viable.

If we can switch to a better voting system like STAR or approval, it would be far better for the green party.

And the existing parties would have to compete for once, which would go a long way towards making them not dumpster fires.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/simile/

I agree, which is why I usually bring up both when it makes sense to do so.

At least with a knife, you can’t mow down a room full of people. Here in the U.S. dozens of people can be killed in a short time by a single person due to guns. We give them out like candy.

Both access to guns (force multiplier) and the underlying issue (poverty, lack of social mobility, etc) need to be addressed.

It’s not a perfect replacement, and I never claimed as such. But for most people’s needs, gimp is perfectly capable.

That, and Gimp is quite a capable photo editing tool.

Homelander is the type to side with oil.

The U.S. is about to dump billions in military aid for Isreal.

Here’s France:

Amid fears the fighting to spiral into a wider regional war, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and told top Israeli officials that he came “to express our support and solidarity and share your pain” as well as to assure Israel it is “not left alone in the war against terrorism.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israels-increased-strikes-across-gaza-kill-more-than-700-people-in-the-past-day-palestinians-say

Money/users/recognition isn’t really what OP is suggest linux wins on.

While the moon has basically no atmosphere, I don’t think it would matter much. Plenty of lunar dust would get blown around by the force of the engines, and the mass or that dust would contribute. Beyond that, the exhaust itself has a lot of force, and is probably plenty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs

Look at the Apollo missions taking off, it’s quite violent for the surround area.

That’s exactly the first thing that crossed my mind. Whenever I get a depressive episode, the last thing I want to do is cook. So the least effort, quickest meal is the meal I have. And meals like that are generally processed, terrible foods.

But how are their parents going to get them to work? /s

Good, probably for the best.

Honestly, yeah…

I don’t play it very often. I only ever play it when my girlfriend and her friends rope me into it.

You have way more practical experience than I do. I haven’t even tried any of these on actual hardware yet.

Honestly installing it on a VM and checking around is a huge chunk of the experience, so you’re not missing much.

https://github.com/mateomaui/DebianInstall/blob/main/debian-install-3-apps-or-no-nvidia.sh

Hell yeah.

If you’re making scripts like this, you should have no problem with LMDE.

If you (or anyone) wants to contribute changes to that install script, feel free, I’m just working it out.

I might do so down the line. I’m not the most experienced with shell scripts, but I am knowledgable enough to fumble my way through a server maintenance script for my self hosted minecraft server.

That is basically what is going on. We do technically have representation in the same way La Croix has taste.

I will say right off the bat, it sounds like you know a bit more about me, so whatever you decide will probably already be a pretty informed choice.

With that said, having used ubuntu occasionally in the past, it doesn’t feel all that different from Debian. They are roughly equally functional, performant, etc.

Before I found Debian Mint, I wrote a script for base Debian 12.2 to auto-install

I probably should do something similar, because down the line who knows, I might need a full re-install.

because I have no idea what I could be missing in the background on my Debian install, or didn’t set up correctly because I don’t know about it.

Very anecdotally, like I said there has only been two programs that I haven’t been able to get running that I really want. That’s fusion360 and dungeon draft. Both of which I could pretty easily get running in a VM.

Actually now that I think about it, there is a 3d program, and that’s fortnite. But that’s because their management doesn’t give a flying fuck about linux, and so their anti-cheat breaks the game. So no distro will be safe from that.

I also noticed that Debian Mint currently uses a newer kernel than Ubuntu Mint

Again, it sounds like you are much more informed about it than me. But personally, it hasn’t made a difference for me. I can run my games, the basic internet browsing apps that I like, etc.

Has there been any particular thing you had to do to Debian Mint to make it work better for you?

The most complex thing that needed set up was getting my drives auto mounted on startup. But debian mint has a pretty straightforward way of setting it up, so it took maybe 5 seconds.

Beyond that, it’s just been a small bit of effort setting up the programs I use. Steam, freetube, the prism minecraft launcher, my nvidia drivers, cura, KDE connect, gitkracken, vscode, vlc, etc. It is really low effort honestly, basically the same effort as windows. The software manager/library on debian has been pretty decent to me.

More or less, yeah

People have tried with minimal success to do something like this IIRC.

The biggest problem is that corporate America has shit loads of cash. So much so that even if Americans were to pull the money together, it just wouldn’t compete.

The solution is to vote politicians into power that don’t accept bribes and are willing to criminalize them.