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Machoke Meowth

I’m sitting at around half that.

It’s complicated, but no, I don’t.

The nearest bus stop is an hour away, and it’s for interstate transit. 🤷

The place I’m planning to buy a home is so remote that I’m considering a backup car.

I learned how to repair my own vehicles after I was quoted $2,600 to install a $40 part. I could’ve also had an entire rebuilt engine shipped and swapped it in myself for about half that, but I ultimately decided to go with the $40 + basic tools.

I agree

If I haven’t heard of it, then the average Windows user definitely hasn’t heard of it.

The issue starts at the fact that it’s difficult to find a computer sold by a common major distributor with Linux already installed, nor does Linux have any marketing aside from word of mouth to compete with the aggressive Microsoft/Apple duopoly.

The threshold to entry begins at simply having the technical prowess to install an alternative operating system on one’s computer, which I don’t believe a good majority of people are even capable of. Before that, people also need an incentive to transition in the first place. They’ve probably been using their current OS for a good portion of their life and are more than comfortable with it without putting themselves through another learning curve.

The average person isn’t considering an alternative to what they’re already using, and if they are, it usually isn’t Linux. The biggest problem isn’t appeal or ease of use; it’s exposure and immediate accessibility.

That said, performance and simplicity would be an excellent selling point for Linux. It would be absolutely worth banking on the open-source nature of it to appeal to a growing demographic of people interested in privacy-oriented tech as well.

Bots don’t upvote. There’s so much voting activity here as a ratio to actual contributions that my first impression was that the votes might be faked.

It was starting at $10k with an undisclosed reserve price.

Cobwebs/Penlink seemed much more tailored to that, but these companies also have an incentive to exaggerate their products’ capabilities as much as they can get away with.

I did some digging and it seems like the family’s suit should actually be against the pub that was renting the in-park space from Disney. It’s just unfortunate that the prevalence of corporate propaganda in news media, especially in what would be a critical period for Disney to invest in damage control for their public image, makes it difficult to confidently believe one thing or the other in light of that finding.

I never cared much for Disney to begin with, so I won’t waste any more time with verification. Regardless, the suit definitely shouldn’t be dismissed on their argument of the arbitration agreement alone because it would set an awful precedent, even if the suit itself happens to be toothless. I wouldn’t put it past Disney to try to take advantage of the situation to that end (They may be hoping the suit will be dismissed for arbitration because the judge already knows the suit is pointless so that future legitimate lawsuits against them for wrongful deaths in their park can be more easily dismissed on the same grounds).

I haven’t felt the need to just yet. That feature would’ve come in handy on Reddit when Kanye and Formula 1 were taking over.

Yes, but also TECHINT.

I went back to check things out for the first time in a while and realized just how awful it is in comparison to Lemmy. It’s an incomprehensible clusterfuck of bots and influence campaigns. As long as engagement and new account numbers look good on paper to appease shareholders, I guess.

Reddit getting rid of paid rewards pre-IPO only to reintroduce the feature later on and boast it as a major QOQ increase in non-ad revenue while artificially inflating their on-paper growth was slick.

A straw man won’t be of much use to you, either. I didn’t have ‘Bingo’ on the list of things I expected to do today.

Mockery aside, I hope you’ll come to reflect on my critique and improve your argument-waging skills. Given how it was handled up front, I don’t expect anything constructive to result from deeper engagement.