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Reversible seats sound marginally more expensive to install and maintain. The benefit is to make the customer’s experience better while adding no revenue.

Sounds like some anti-American euro-commie bullshit to me!

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The crazy thing is, you would probably want to name it something direct and memorable like LINUX APP STORE to market it to the masses. Have a tag line like “it’s all free!” or whatever.

In the Super Bowl (no affiliation to c/superbowl) commercial, we’ll hear some grandma questioning whether the things on her new laptop were free from restrictions or free from cost, and her jock grandson will look right into the camera and say “yes!”

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The amount of times I’ve seen the “oops, you’re right, sorry/thanks!” equivalent on Lemmy makes me think this place really has attracted some good people.

Disclaimer: yes we have trolls, shit posts, hot takes, etc.

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It is a very boomer thing to proudly announce when you block somebody, isn’t it?

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…as long as choice #3 isn’t apocalyptically bad, right?

Right?

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I think you’re agreeing with me there. People want other choices, but they get ignored because they have no chance of winning.

It would be great if we couple coordinate and just try it one year, but change needs to be able to happen gradually too. Our system in practice actively punishes third party voting by your vote benefiting the major party you DON’T want.

I bet people would want ranked choice or similar if given the option. I think the establishment really doesn’t like that idea and actively works against it, though.

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The problem there isn’t that we (assuming the US) don’t want third parties, it’s that our voting system encourages party consolidation rather than cooperation. That only gets more true the higher in the government you go.

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Choice 1: third party you prefer Choice 2: mainstream party you prefer Choice 3: mainstream party you don’t prefer that gives off apocalyptic vibes

This is what I was trying to describe. It’s the same old US third party voting trap as always.

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I started using Linux more last year due to work, so the exodus from Reddit to FOSS land has been perfectly timed for me. I think I have 4 different distros in VMs right now.

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See, game pass I’m cool with because it’s an up-front transparent deal that you are buying time to access this library, and the library also changes. There is no pretense of “buying a copy” or whatever.

It’s nice for modern games anyway. For classic stuff that I want to have access to forever, I alreadty have access to that stuff forever. It might stink for the kids who are playing their “classics” right now, though.

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This is very well timed for me. I just acquired myself a convenient ancient laptop by installing Linux on a circa 2014 chrome book. It can chug when playing videos, but great for general use.

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This seems like the perfect place to use “oh my sweet summer child”

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That’s why I referred to the overused quote and said this is where it actually makes sense.

I even scrolled through the replies to make sure it wasn’t already posted.

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Oh yeah, it wasn’t exactly fun. I remember wondering how the hell adults do it since they have bills to pay and a bunch of other crap to deal with.

But still, being an adult in general is way nicer than being a student.

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I too saw this on top, and I’m going to listen to it! Later guys!

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Yeah I didn’t think I needed it. It was a last second addition just in case.

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Yeah, but good service is a profit problem!

/s

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Yeah but with the ancient elvish magic and longevity and blah blah and wave of the hands annnd his ears are fine!

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There must be room in the world for a high budget “Mordor vs USA” parody movie.

Or maybe a 30 second comedy video.

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I just did this yesterday! I’ve worked with Linux/Unix for a long time, but I’ve never had a Linux machine at home. We had an ancient cheap chromebook and I turned it into a functional Linux laptop! I used GalliumOS though, which isn’t being actively developed any longer, so I might have to change setups eventually.

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Thanks again!

The chrome book is in a state where I can boot from the USB drive and try out whatever I want, so I’m going to take a look!

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In didn’t plan to distro hop on the chrome book, but having something actively maintained that’s a nice’d up Debian would be sweet.

What have you done to me?!?!?

Are these distros good at supporting various old chrome book hardware? Hell maybe even something like Mint would work, but I should probably stick with the lightweight ones.

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90 minutes of work every single DAY?

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