You don’t necessarily need money, especially in the short term.

If you have kids, you do. Plenty of people in the military with spouses and children.

Which would render the US dollar essentially worthless, resulting in soldiers and LEOs essentially being “unpaid” and no longer willing to support Trump.

Yeah but how the fuck would he pay the troops without, you know, California’s money?

I maintain the quickest way for military and LEOs to drop support for Trump is realizing they aren’t gonna get paid or that their money has become essentially worthless. Either scenario will pit them against him. If they can’t feed their families they will turn, considering it’s an all volunteer military. He would have to instate a harsh draft first to avoid that.

Also looks like both gamemaker and UE have native Linux versions, although gamemakers is still in beta.

Talespire you shouldn’t have any issues with as long as you run it through Steam.

The main thing is that proton is enabled in Linux in Steam out of the box but only for some games. You will need to open your Steam settings and choose the Compatibility tab and choose to enable proton for all games (“Enable Steam Play for all other titles”). That should make it so that any game launched via Steam will run through the proton compatibility layer.

For non-Steam games check out Lutris.

As for Obsidian (not familiar, basing this on quick search), if its the “personal Wikipedia” note taking app they have multiple native Linux versions including a deb and a flatpak.

Discord, as I said elsewhere, use the website or the flatpak.

Do yourself a favor and use either the flatpak of Discord or just use the website since its an Electron app anyway. The *.deb install will force you to endlessly download and manually install new *.deb files to keep using it. A true pain in the ass, there was even a meme about it here on Lemmy recently.

The most important thing: Tell us, the community, what your critical application needs are, and get suggestions for applications to use. So many people jump through fifty hoops because they Google search first and the first thing they try turns out to be deprecated, the second thing they try doesn’t work on their system, the third thing they try has everything they need minus the most important part, the fourth thing they try turns out to be proprietary and half-broken, and so on.

You will not find good solutions just by searching around, you honestly, truly, need fucking nerds in this community who live this shit daily to help you know what the genuine best available solutions are. Otherwise you will spend weeks pounding your head against the keyboard using the wrong solutions, not because of anything you did wrong but because there are often so many different implementations of the same thing that it’s nearly impossible to know which ones are the ones you need for your use case without directly asking some people.

Once you’ve been using it a few years, you’ll be familiar enough with working solutions to keep track of this kind of thing yourself, but trust me, it takes a while. So please do yourself a favor and make a thread asking which applications people suggest for the distribution you’ve chosen to use and what kind of framework to install them from (repository or flatpak). You will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Also, as for keeping your backed up data from Windows on a USB, I think best practice is to always keep that kind of info backed up on an external drive, no matter the OS you use, or whether you plan on switching, so if anything fails, the drive will always still be there and readable (unless the drive fails, of course).

This is such an important thing to note. The MAGA set aren’t completely oblivious. It’s the same issue with how they don’t trust “mainstream media,” the problem doesn’t lie in accepting that media must be viewed with skepticism and critical thinking, the problem lies with the critical thinking ending at “I can’t trust the mainstream media.”

What the MAGAs are actually practicing is cynicism not skepticism. They have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Because they have realized some sources aren’t always entirely trustworthy, they stop trusting them entirely and instead listen to random jackholes on the internet. It’s actually an abdication of critical thinking. Just flat out rejection instead of reading with a critical eye and skeptical mind.

I think you vastly overestimate the cost of doing such a thing, a lot of nerds could afford to inundate us with AI slop, not just reddit.

At the same time, I think you’re also vastly underestimating the amount of complete jerkoffs on the internet and how much spare time they have to be jerkoffs.

Derek Sanders sucks in a lot of very legitimate ways, but bare minimum, at least he’s not a Nazi sympathizer.

Hey, look at it this way:

1. macOS is, if nothing else, certified UNIX. Which means under the hood it’s actually a lot like Linux.

2. Are you really overpaying for the hardware? Apple makes the hardware and the OS and every other OS subsidizes the cost of their OS with ads (Windows and Android). At the very least, it feels like you’re paying a higher price for the hardware by having a small amount of more respect for your privacy in respect to invasive advertising.

3. The new Apple developed silicon (M1-M4) is actually really solid stuff, and as such, are you really overpaying when it comes to quality hardware and a quality OS?

It’s valid to think you’re overpaying, I’m just saying maybe to try to view it a different way if you have to buy it anyway.

If its debian, shouldn’t be snaps I don’t think. I think those are just an Ubuntu thing.

This comment section gives me hope.

Good job, Lemmings, for recognizing this for what it is.

Telegram was always a bad actor with misleading claims about their communications service. Not shocking at all.

The most frustrating part about this is they already reduce the amount of SNAP benefits you get based on income.

Being forced to work 80 hours a month in, say, Washington state, for example, means that an individual will have drastically reduced SNAP income because 80 hours a week at Washington minimum wage is $1332.80 a month, which is just $612 shy of the max income limit for a single person to be able to recieve SNAP benefits at all. This could reduce someone’s SNAP benefits by about $100.

So, in essence, demanding they have a job is effectively reducing the amount of benefits paid out. That’s how this is intended to save money, to reduce total payouts by forcing people to labor and lose benefits.

As a single person who is technically disabled due to cancer but has been hesitant to get on disability because there’s a good chance my cancer could go into remission, I am left feeling pretty fucked into a corner about this myself, even though I have no dependents.

All of this is especially cruel in the face of a likely incoming recession from the economic stupidity on display by this administration. When unemployment skyrockets, people will just be out of luck with no safety net.

There was at least one Squid from Lemmy that took a Flying leap to go there.

McDonald’s, sources say Ronald paid for the hit.

It’s just absurd because her careers have zilch to do with what happened.

I think the keyword here that might be being missed is “young” implying child labor.

So as much as it’s probably just racism, it’s at least possible that it has more to do with them being children who are girls more than being Chinese specifically.

The reason they can’t move it to the states being child labor laws.

I mean… Technically Lemmy is social media, its just pseudoanonymous. That isn’t the same as anonymous.

I’m so sick of Democrats helping fuck us over and pretending that we should be happy about it.

Instead of fighting this kind of shit tooth and nail the best they do is water it down and then send it to be passed.

Fucking maddening. Part of the fucking problem. Stop making deals and concessions to these fascist fucks.