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While this is true (i wasn't excited by Harris before) i am not sure why i should even care? Do you want Harris to give up the top position and switch with Walz? That's silly.

I'm just glad he's gonna be there, whispering into her ear. Maybe he can share some wisdom about getting stuff passed. I dunno.

There's all kinds of really cool tech that goes into the military. I love planes and militaries have incredible ones, but hate what they're often used for.

For those objecting to this it's absolutely true. Fight Nazis, with guns when necessary, but do not be misled into believing they are wholly alien or inhuman. That's how you end up living in the middle of a bunch of Nazis without realizing their Nazis.

Oh you know...

Maybe "Use by" and "Discard after".

Using json for IPC but a binary format for log files sounds insane to me, but alright.

Nuclear war has been mentioned a couple times but i feel it deserves elaboration: We've been real fucking close a couple times. There was a Soviet "nuclear counterattack station", or whatever, that got the "nuclear strike detected, fire retaliatory missiles" signal and the person responsible simply refused. The signal was due to a glitch, there was no attack. That guy probably saved millions and millions of lives by refusing to carry out his duty.

If you consider (potential) timelines being "close" to ours in terms of only a small number of things needing to change to get us there, the one where everything went to nuclear hell is very close to ours--but we're not in that one.

You don't want blue light anyway because it messes with your night vision.

Yet both liberals and conservatives (in your sense of the words) say this.

1000% this. Aftermarket, fucked colors, and/or no alignment is the cause of the problems. I would add that a lot of aftermarket lights are also way too bright. Sure, the owner can see (a tiny bit) better but everyone else gets blinded. Even then, it's not bad unless they're not aligned properly. (Well, it'll still blind you if it's a truck directly behind you but that's just trucks.)

For running applications: in addition to Flatpak (which is "cross platform" in that it works on most/all distros) there's also Appimage. Appimage is the most like downloading a Windows application (technically it's even more Mac-like) because you download a self contained program that just works. Not every application has a Flatpak or Appimage option, though.

I believe Xbox One controllers work if wired or fully Bluetooth out of the box, but if you use the dongle you need some software to handle it. I use "zone", it's kind of a pain to set up but honestly no more than (say) the Windows software to get PlayStation controllers working.

Protondb is primarily concerned with Proton, Valve's customized version of Wine, so by default that means games run through Steam. (Of which there is a native Linux client.) If you want to use other games, ex ones that require EA's launcher thing, then a tool to help make that happen is Lutris. It will help manage your games and launchers and customized Wine installs, including some automatic tweaks to make things work better (or at all). Steam gets official developer support for Linux so it's generally the easiest experience.