One other factor that also influences Linux’ market share is that a lot of people just don’t use PCs anymore and rely only on smartphones. I assume that Linux users are less likely to stop using PCs completely than Windows Users are (or rather, that people who don’t even get into PCs would have been less likely to become Linux users if they did)

So it’s not just direct conversion from Windows to Linux, but also a higher retention of users somewhat.

I just meant that the intention behind my comment was not to attack Wikipedia in general.

The point is that Wikipedia (in theory) doesn’t make any argument about anything. It simply mirrors or summarizes information. Using Wikipedia as a source is somewhat similar to listing “the notes I made during class” as your source. Your source list is not meant to simply list where you got the information from, but actually list the origin of that information.

Citing ChatGPT would definitely not be more accepted than Wikipedia anywhere. You may get away with it, but that doesn’t mean it’s actually accepted.

Btw this is not an argument against Wikipedia in any way.

There’s a lot of misinformation on Wikipedia too, of many different kinds. Some smaller pages exists purely for someone’s PR. I’ve seen blatantly false (but “verifiable”) stuff too but the most common thing is to have pages that are just creative with the truth.

Also sometimes I’ll notice an article make multiple different claims that all point to the same source and then check the source and realize it is not a valid source for all of those claims, just some.

And also there’s stuff that gets flagged as verified based on extrapolation of data from a combination of sources. For example: one source says “John Doe facing 1 billion dollars fines if found guilty” and another source says “John Doe was found guilty”, then the article says “John Doe fined 1 billion dollars after being found guilty” as verified, then you go search the web and find no mention of any fines actually being issued following the verdict.

Too deep into the cult but to actually see him negatively, while seeing their whole life in shambles due to his administration.

I hate food. It’s hard to explain but it’s kinda like most food triggers my fight or flight response. It takes me a lot of willpower to eat through a regular meal. As a kid I was severely underweight because I was always avoiding food. When I moved out I took the easier approach and started eating only the stuff that was easier to eat (mostly fried and dried stuff, and some ultra processed stuff like chips and cookies). I went from one end of the BMI table to the other in ~5 years.

How did Pinwheel survive the previous presidents?

My rule for considering it a sport is: anyone should be able to play it if they have everything needed. It’s impossible to be banned from a sport (banned from tournaments is not the same thing) - if you want to play, you play. If you want to make custom rules just for you and your friends, you make them and then play. Nobody can own the rights to a sport (again, not the same as that sport’s tournament). No company can ever stop others from making money with a specific sport.

If you have any kind of ball you can play soccer. If you have anything that can represent chess pieces, you can play chess. If you have a kart you can have a race…

So can videogames be considered sport? Perhaps some can, but anything that requires access to a specific company’s private servers is out of the question. I’m not even gonna argue that the game should be open source, but at the very least it should have a way for anyone to spin up their own server for it.

For me it’s not even that. I have zero clue about men being good lucking or not except for those who look similar to someone that has been described to me as good lucking or not.

With women I have “some” clue in general and then there’s also some women that I personally find very attractive and others don’t. But even the most beautiful women don’t really give me any desire to do anything sexual with them unless they (or myself) first do something to make me think of it - so I might be closer to ace than actually straight.

My personal preference in color is incompatible with the local weather for half of the year.

I used them side by side for nearly two decades, don’t really remember what was my first distro or why I needed it, but when I tried Bazzite I finally realized I had absolutely no need for Windows anymore and finally got rid of it.

I had a girl ask if it was OK to bring a friend once, I said it was fine. She ended up coming alone anyway.

Can’t believe it’s only been six months since this.

I’ve been fully rocking Bazzite since then. Only issue I had was that the PC freezes if it enters sleep mode. Bought a new laptop for work shortly after and put bluefin on it (loved it even more than Bazzite), then nuked Manjaro from the desktop to keep it dedicated to gaming only.

Sadly shortly after the company I work for wrote a new device policy and now the only distros they allow are Debian based, but I didn’t want to give up bluefin so I went back to working on the desktop with dual boot mint+bazzite and kept the laptop going in hopes of switching jobs soon so I can go back to it (I’m hating have to use mint after getting a taste of much more stable options).

So far I only had one single game that needed some tweaking to work properly, everything else just ran smoothly out of the box.

You probably just forgot about all the bad music you used to listen to and now compares all the new stuff to the best from your time.

I wouldn’t put it past them to still use other people’s self driving cars.

It does happen, but it’s once in a blue moon and not something that can keep a whole business model going.

I’m loving bluefin and I really want to go all in on the immutable stuff, but I’m having a hard time being productive on it. The devcontainers experience has been miserable (probably because I refuse to use VSCode and every other editor having poor or no support for it); I also had SElinux fuck me up when trying to build some complex dockerfile from a project at work (something that was supposed to just work took me two whole days of debugging - and I even managed to break bluefin’s boot process when I tried to mess with the SElinux configuration. This one was mostly due to my own inexperience with SElinux, combined with there being a lot less content on the internet about fixing stuff on immutable distros compared to traditional ones).