I’ll be frank with you. As long as my customers are captive on either Apple or Google platforms I can’t do shit.

There are many things around the world that are advertised as much better than they are in reality. Like life in the USA, Russian military might, AI employees or whatever the hell is dubai chocolate.

Regulate advertising space and personalization algorithms.

Yes, it will kill a large portion of current economy, so maybe do it slowly. But generally speaking you should be able to find what you want on the internet, not what advertisers want you to see.

Top be fair, it’s quite likely that half the stories of vampires are really about people like this.

Just imagine, you are visiting someone important. They do anything violent, they aren’t particularly hostile. Just being in their house or around them makes you tired quickly for no apparent reason. You return to your home exhausted and pale.

Yup, must have been a vampire.

I second that. I was initially skeptical about switching to Linux Mint, but every game in my Steam library works perfectly the same as on Windows.

Sitting at home with my kids while my wife takes another course about horses. I think this time is for license to be a judge at competitions.

I like writing stories.

With a little help of AI you can also try indie game dev. My advice - use it as an interactive tutorial and better search engine. You can learn a lot when AI gives you examples and then do your own thing.

Quite nostalgic

Problem is - if you look at how “World Powers” behave, do you really wanna live in such countries?

Which Europeans would just love to invade neighbors like Russia and USA?

Which Europeans would love to deregulate their countries in order to enrich elites like USA?

Or perhaps which Europeans would love to live under state surveillance while their country buys out foreign infrastructure like China?

I use Linux Mint

Steam games work on Linux Mint without issues, or at least I was lucky enough not to have issues so far.

Linux alternatives to popular apps are very good (Libre Office, Inkscape, Gimp etc) and they don’t try to shove AI down my throat or demand subscription.

I also would like to include that in terms of ease of use and interface familiarity Linux Mint looks quite a lot like Windows XP.

From home since epidemic started and I would want to hug covid if it was a person.

My productivity in office was always low. Too many distractions, too many inconveniences. Then there is an issue with getting to the office - it’s an additional hour of my life they are not paying extra for. And of course - at home I can work while doing simple chores. But the most important is that I can be with my daughters, instead of being just another father that spends half a day at work and the other half sleeping.

I use it daily as a glorified search engine. Ever since Google decided that showing ads is more important than showing search results ChatGPT is much better.