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There's a bug where flatpaks seemingly disappear from the system the first time you run Wayland. But it resolves with a reboot. It happens too if you change back from Wayland to X11. Other than some minor glitches from very old software that hasn't seen an update in decades, it runs perfectly fine.

Cinnamon can run Wayland in experimental mode. It's just an extra click during login. Mint also has direct support for flatpaks repositories, with flathub by default directly on the software center.

This is the format collision discussion that has no solution so far. A tablet that runs windows is counted as Windows. A laptop that runs android does not. Neither does an android cellphone. It all boils down to web browser user agent fuckery. This is why steam's numbers are more reliable than other sources, they're direct hardware surveys.

But the point is that a steam deck is not (but in a way it is basically just) a PC. There are tablets than run desktop interfaces and now there are laptops that can be used as tablet. Eventually the artificial mobile vs. PC/desktop/laptop schism will stop making sense.

Almost all anti-cheats work on linux or offer linux integration or builds. It's the scummy unethical publishers who run the typical games that uses anti-cheat who refuse to pay engineers to make the minimum effort to support linux. Because it would undermine some of their bullshit claims used to manipulate their players. Fortunately for some people like myself, the typical game that requires anti-cheat is not a game they would want to play anyways.

“I don't believe it…I'm on the cover of the movie!”

Depends on the country, but usually a "background check" is nothing more than paying a lawyer to check if you have ever been convicted, accused or investigated for a crime. Prosecutors have an archive and a office of records to collect and share that public information. This is why clearing records are important in courts and settlements. It's a big mark to say the person is actually alright and won't be found in the records if searched, as they were cleared. Other than that it is usually just a phone call to a previous employer to ask if you were an asshole there.

Self-hosted and locally run models also goes a long way. 90% of LLMs applications don't require users to surrender their devices, data, privacy and security to big corporations. But that is exactly how the space is being run right now.

I'm more of a walk-in abortion kind of person.

Awesome, Valve still won't take my money even at full price.

It's a peaceful life.

I think this isn't addressed to people with mental illness. It's more of a general mental health awareness education. I worked therapy sessions and you'd be shocked by the amount of people with truly atrocious coping mechanisms because they didn't receive healthy emotional education.

Playing video games for hours without rests, bathroom or stretch breaks. Self medicating, alcohol abuse, binging junk food at 3 am, etc. This people didn't have a mental illness that I could diagnose directly. Usually they were just overwhelmed by life circumstances. But they were spiraling downwards because of their habits and beliefs on how to deal with the stresses of life.

We did something called mental health hygiene. And they were things just like these. Not just knowing about them, but switching attitudes and habits around them. There's so much people that aren't capable of identifying emotions and needs that we even give them names. People who get hangry are individuals who are easily irritated who can't identify their hunger and it makes them reactive with aggression to almost any social stimulus. That's not a mental illness, it is just bad mental health hygiene.

Saying to such a person "hey, I think you're hungry and that's making you angry and aggressive, go eat" sounds stupidly obvious. But for the person going through it, it isn't that obvious.

Aside: the amount of times I've had to work sleep schedules with depressed and anxious patients is ridiculously high. People with mental illnesses do forget to sleep. And my job was telling them, "you need sleep ASAP" then work with them how to get it done. Nothing is obvious.

Well, you see. Those in charge want that apple there. Because when push comes to shove that apple will also kill activists, protestors and political opponents without asking questions or refusing orders. He will keep fellow apples in check and keep them from speaking up as well. They like that apple.