I was on System 76 for two laptops. The most recent one, a Lemur, started to fall apart: the plastic hinge just started coming off in chunks, and the clamshell began to split. Customer service was terrible: they tried to get me to agree to charges without explaining what they were going to charge me for. When I pressed them (which took repeated emails) they finally admitted they wanted to send me a part for me to do a replacement without any instructions, and which they advised people not to do. Very scammy vibes. I picked up a Framework instead and have been really enjoying it, though I can’t really speak to the gaming portion I’m afraid. I’d just say avoid System 76.

https://www.lemmyapps.com/ is a neat comparison site, but I’m not seeing any criteria around use of tracking data; is that just implied with the free vs paid column?

Refreshingly, that includes multinational firms: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

With the U.S. government now in total control of a political party …

The quoted text means that the government controls the party. I believe what you mean to say is “With the US government now totally controlled by a political party …”

Just as an FYI, “averse” is what you want there, rather than “adverse”. Likely an autocorrect thing, but figured I’d mention it just in case.

It seems to me that Syncthing is the exact right thing to use here; what is “overkill” about it that makes you think you should use something else?

I mean, I use Discord pretty much every day, and that’s what I assumed.

Puerto Rico is lovely

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito-borne_disease

FYI “mouth breather” predates the setting of Stranger Things by decades. It’s also not about manipulatively forcing them to deny it: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/508300/mouth-breathing-as-slang-for-stupidity

You’d probably want height in there as well

It would basically let you see all the hidden characters that indicate formatting, which made it possible to see why your text would suddenly display in a weird way.

I understand where you’re coming from, but I disagree completely. They are written in a different style than we’re used to today, but they’re masterfully done. To me, the movies are largely good adaptations, but the books are far superior.

But that’s the nice thing about taste: everyone’s entitled to their own.

That is relevant to my interests. I’ll have to pay a visit to Baltimore.

Oh man, that reminds me of a place near me that does palak paneer fries. It’s like Indian poutine. Amazing.

I bet they’ve got websites with RSS feeds. Pick up an RSS reader and subscribe to their news & announcements page.

Relevant link: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/

I think they tend to be more interesting too, yeah.

I’d rate them about the same, personally. Though Brooks is at least just derivative and juvenile; Goodkind gets increasingly self indulgent.

Darknet Diaries. Full of fascinating cybersecurity stories and interviews, with both whitehats and blackhats.

Bottlescrews and turnbuckles both have one end threaded in each direction.