Start menu ruined. All the UI is garbage. Fucking OneDrive.

I’m over it. Shopping distros as we speak.

Edit - Making this edit from a fresh Linux Mint install. Cheers.

It was necessary when we understood nothing. Thats not an excuse we can use anymore.

We have understanding. We have gained knowledge that makes religion meaningless. It did its job, served its purpose. Now its time to grow beyond it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say.

Takes all kinds.

Not all of us. Some of us hate it more than you do. We are however too poor to actually fucking leave.

I’d love to travel. See the world. Experience cultures instead of look at them longingly thru a screen. Alas, its not an option. Even if I wanted to physically leave I can’t afford to pay to get rid of citizenship and get established somewhere else.

You should pick another distro and become equally as insufferable.

I recommend Mint. Its basically a 1:1 clone of windows from what I recall of using it years and years ago.

Edge only exists to download Firefox.

*Pretending to try

Important distinction. Its an old tried and true election year chestnut they trot out every few years to hoodwink a few idiots. They refuse to use power when they have it, and cry about being unable to do anything when they dont.

inb4 - That they havent packed the court to unfuck Roe negates any point you may conceivably be contriving in the moment you read this. So save your breath.

It can. In theory.

The theoretical part is the “uncorrupt government” you speak of.

The only way to keep a govt “uncorrupt” as you put it is under pain of literal death. And even then its not foolproof. Some will still be tempted.

If you want a govt that will serve the people while being as incorruptible as possible you have to choose politicians by lottery instead of election. They get called, go serve, then go back to the life they had before. Like 4 years of Jury Duty. Political graspers, climbers, those will always trend towards corruption. Like that old addage, anyone actively seeking political office is unfit to serve in that capacity as their motivations are suspect. Power, authority, etc. All that is only intensified in a system as inconceivably corrupt and broken as ours is.

At least they tried. Our homelessness is an intentional feature of our capitalist system. A constant threat and extant punishment for those among us who aren’t fortunate enough to be born with a silver stick up our ass.

Shredded cabbage is objectively the way. Lettuce is just crunchy water.

You just havent had good slaw before. Eastern NC Vinegar based slaw is the way.

When it comes to that sweet shit tho I’m right there with you. Trash it.

#sobbing, crying, utterly inconsolable.

All I want is small, cheap, reliable economy boxes back. Simple, uncomplicated, user servicable, cheap cars. Engine, transmission, differential, a cab, lights, wind down windows. Without an unnecessary extra 5 miles off wires for the equally unnecessary half ton of electronics and plastic.

Unfortunately that seems to be an unreasonable ask nowadays.

We’re not gonna make any of those targets. Make peace with that and prepare accordingly. Pick a shitty future. Mad Max at worst, Elysium at best.

AMOC collapse, Carbon Sinks failing. We’re boned. Cooked. Soon to be roasted. If our Govt’s ever react at all, it’ll be far too little far too late by the time they do.

Being unable to delete OneDrive is reason enough to drop Windows imo.

Mechwarrior 5: Clans

Its been fantastic. Loved the hell out of it and cant wait for more.

The Clan Invasion hasnt been in a MW game since the mid-90s. And those Clan Mechs are B-E-A-Utiful in a modern engine like Unity.

Israel’s plan has always been to start the war then have the US fight it for them. Because they wouldn’t have a prayer even if they shared a border.

Seriously. They’ve been trying to engineer this war for a long time. McCain, Bolton, all those Cryptkeeper age neocons were on the take even back before Bush kicked off his Global War on Peace.

(for the Uninitiated, Tales from the Cryptkeeper. 1989-1996)

Congrats.

If I might offer some advise for what’s coming. Keep the play style that let you beat Disciplinary Action going. It’s gonna serve you well in missions to come.

And hit the Sim Pod for mech xp and to level up your star. Cuz you’re gonna need every edge you can get.

I won. Somehow.

Played it real conservative. Held back. Used choke points. Positioned my star in water so they could go nuts without overheating.

Tried the same thing at the next cliff after the choice. Didn’t work out.

My next attempt

Reviewers never made it that far.