Check out PikaOS, it’s pretty much pure Debian, but for gaming, makes updating drivers and managing games easy

You can give them nicknames in game if that makes it easier. You can also change the pool of names or even the entire dwarven language if you want, it’s all text files (at least in the ascii version, not sure about Steam)

Yeah, no, it’s ridiculously, nonsensically complex. In the most delightful and unexpected ways. Like, it’s not necessarily complex in the ways that you think it is or should be complex. It’s complex in ways that you never even would’ve imagined. For no real reason. Just because.

One of the few games so special that even bugs improve the experience.

Yadda yadda they came for the trade unionists, I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist, yadda yadda.

They’re always coming for you, and there will never be anyone left to speak out for you, in a society where people are too comfortable to fight back. They’ll get you all, one at a time. There’s nothing to wait for. There is no rescue waiting just down the road. There will never be a time when resistance suddenly gets stronger, they will make sure it always gets weaker. Fight back now, or forever hold your peace.

I know people who have had to give them the phone. It doesn’t happen every time, it doesn’t happen to everyone, it doesn’t happen often, but it definitely does happen, and from what I understand, they can refuse you entry if you do not. I’m not in a position to say how common or widespread it is, but there are enough anecdotal stories to convince me it’s probably decently widespread, albeit occasional and possibly targeted. Like you said though, no one knows what they’ll do anymore, maybe just shoot you in the face. And that’s kind of the point. They want that environment of uncertainty and not knowing when the bullet is going to come for you.

Sent back if they’re lucky. Otherwise sent to concentration camps, El Salvador, or just never seen again at all.

Yes, they already do that. That said, if you have good op-sec, you’re not going to have your social media on your phone. At least, not your real social media, or if you do, you’ll have it behind a password they can’t break and that you’re not going to give them, so this is not really about getting into everyone’s social media per se, it’s more about providing them more excuses to detain people they don’t like, increasing surveillance of people who they know are probably not really doing anything wrong to begin with, and the chilling effect that surveillance provides in controlling those people who are not really doing anything wrong.

AI probably wrote Hegseth’s email, TBH.

I feel like that has vastly deeper meaning than it was ever intended to. A philosopher or sociologist could probably write their masterwork with that title someday.

I agree with everything you said except whether capitalism is the “real ideology”. I’d argue it too is just a tool. Ideologies themselves are a tool. I think when you go even further at taking away more and more of the disguise, the real enemy is and always has been an overdose of pure human greed and selfishness, unregulated and out of control. Capitalism is just a way for that greed and selfishness to stand out in public and say “Look at me! Celebrate me! I am a good thing, I am in your best interest! I can help you do things better!” but it’s just a costume that greed and selfishness is wearing to make itself socially acceptable as it grows further and further out of control…

It’s a really nice costume, logical in a lot of ways, makes sense, pretty convincing, but underneath it there’s still just naked greed and selfishness. If we want to truly better ourselves as a society, as a civilization, as humanity, maybe it’s time to set it all aside and really do some thinking about what the emperor looks like when he has no clothes.

Do we want to keep scrambling on top of each other to create the tallest possible pile of humans so the people on the top have the best view, or do we want to try starting to be fucking hippies and stuff again? We’ll never have zero greed and selfishness. And we don’t want to. If we had been completely comfortable, sustainable, happy living as hunter-gatherers, we still would be doing that today. Greed and selfishness are the drive that allow us to grow and explore and develop and become more than we are. But not out of control, not our only overriding goal, not short-sightedly destroying the very systems of life we need to grow, in the name of profit.

Mmhmm. The more things change, the more things stay the same. “Gulf War 3: Gulf of America edition” Now with extra-bigass Freedom Fries!

No, the false dichotomy that there are two sides and only one side is fascists is the reason fascists are in power. It’s fascists all the way down. That’s their secret. They haven’t infiltrated just one side.

Kind, gentle, cloyingly polite nanny-state fascists are still fascists even if you don’t immediately recognize them as such.

Millenium can combine Proton folders into one (not an endorsement, I don’t use it personally, just an option, you should perform your own due diligence)

Getting some serious “are we the baddies?” vibes from the US lately.

The wrong democrats fight back. Because they’re not really fighting back. They’re fighting over slices of the pie. They never intend to give any of the pie to us. They just want us to vote it to them.

Because the domain name system is the tragedy of the commons. We all share it, and cybersquatters fucking it up for any of us fuck it up for all of us.

Companies on the other hand, are just a fucking tragedy in general.

It is always okay to punch Nazis. You don’t need a reason. (serious answer though: I have no idea what kicked it off, my comment still stands though, it’s always okay to punch Nazis.)

He is indeed corpo scum. If (when) we live in Cyberpunk 2077 that dude will 100% be the face of a megacorp. Or at least a cyborg wearing his face.

They aren’t as distracted by their phones yet. Once they get Tiktok, all bets are off.