So because you do it correctly, everyone else should get fucked or what? Like, you know how many people have bad parents?

So, congrats, your kids won’t suffer from that (or maybe they will once they have their own money because the path way of “spend a $1, get an in-game item, get an instant rush of feel-good hormones” is forming even with moderation). But other kids may, unless of course you think that it’s somehow their fault they have shitty parents.

So no, I really don’t want this around kids whose lives will be ruined just so your kids can have a fun time (which they can have in other ways, including other games).

Nah, I’m obsessed with corporations not ruining kids lives just to get few more dollars.

Also, please, stop putting words into other people’s mouths.

Cool, that’s why half the games you listed are just gambling machines in disguise?

Ah, the classic “world hunger is a myth, I have eaten today.”

I’m not saying there are not the rare gems in mobile games (just bought Don’t Starve on Android last month!), but like 99% of games for mobile are just s money making scheme using dark patterns to influence your brain to give them money.

And congrats on not spending on micro transactions! You do realize the world doesn’t revolve around how your perceive things, right? If young people are exposed to micro transactions like that, it alters their brains and not in a good way. And that’s science, there really isn’t much you can argue with.

Because the games are intentionally made with micro transactions as the main feature.

Like, if you play Witcher or Control or whatever, the focus is on you enjoying the game. If you play Fortnite, the main focus is on getting you pay. The game is probably still fun, but every single thing in the game is meant to make you pay.

Who would’ve thunk, young people with brains that are not fully developed tend to prefer games with addictive elements.

Only the $550 version. The cheaper one will work on best effort basis Manjaro edition.

That’s probably your social bubble. My company is currently deepthroating everything that has AI in its name. I jokingly mentioned they should rename the company to Jira&AI, the joke was not well received.

Anyway, most people I know (including me) are somewhere in the middle - not quite fans in the traditional sense, but definitely not disliking AI.

They still don’t. The analysts do and the programmers then implement it based on specifications.

They also force you to hand over all traffic, including https by MITMing it. Unless you have the enterprise license.

I know many, many people who don’t have a PC at all, phones are usually enough for most.

Seconding Plasma, it worked great with my touch screen.

Once you pick an app to open a certain type of files or as your default web browser, that is what the system will stick with. Plasma makes you the boss.

I wish this was true.

Did you live under the impression that all the smart missiles, smart guns, smart everything didn’t already require programmers?

Note that Ubuntu is no longer just a Debian clone, not in the sense of, say, Linux Mint and Ubuntu. Many Debian apps are not installable on Ubuntu and vice versa, I’d personally consider Ubuntu a base (original as you call it) distribution nowadays.

1. You don’t have to use it for everything, though prepare that a lot of Linux tutorials will have you putting commands there, because it’s simply easier.

2. I use Proton VPN as well and though I don’t remember how I installed it, I run it using a GUI, not terminal. Additionally, whenever you read a guide for Ubuntu, there’s 99% chance it applies to derivates without any modifications. Both Kubuntu and Linux Mint.

3. Custom mouse pointer - yes

4. Updating distro - yes, easy. App updates are also easy, it can be automated, though I personally prefer running them manually. It’s a few button clicks away.

5. Use a beginner friendly distro, of those I’d recommend Linux Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora (or its derivate, Nobara). If I had to choose one, I’d go with Linux Mint.

6. Installing Linux is extremely easy nowadays. Definitely easier than installing Windows from scratch. Making the computer absolutely unusable is really hard, pretty much everything can be fixed.

Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.

And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).

Don’t watch those, though the few I’ve watched didn’t really have that. But it wouldn’t surprise me.

But I think with kid shows it’s much more dangerous, they soak up the patterns and internalise them.

Same, I’ve been saying it for a decade that the current anti-men direction can only mean that young men will push against that and not in a nice way.

Well, guess who was right? Feminism has come all the way from something great and noble towards utter shit.

The dumb dad is fucking disgusting, it’s in pretty much every animated show for kids.