Easiest way to deal with news-induced anxiety is to just turn off the news & social media for a few weeks. Does wonders.

Doom scrolling makes all those bad things significantly worse.

Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it’s specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them (as well as a POE switch), because I really like POE.

Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.

The dedicated NAS appliances really annoy me. Every time I have had to use one I just think ‘I can just do this in Linux on any random desktop lying around, why am I learning another proprietary thing?’

On top of that, it isn’t ‘just $10 more’. It’s $70 more as it has to compete with games I already bought. What does Battlefield Next offer that Battlefield Previous doesn’t? Yeah, nope, Titan mode on 2142 is still fun. Flying choppers in 1942’s Desert Combat mod is still fun.

And when I do want a new game, look, Silksong is right there for $20. Beats the price proposition on some rehashed game for $70 out of the damn water.

Yeah, people love to complain about authoritarianism. Then those same people cheer murder of political rivals…

It’s not a road we should go down, and certainly not one we should cheer on.

Edit: OP corrected the link. Please support Gamer’s Nexus.

This is a re-upload by a third party. Which is perfectly acceptable, but do note it’s not back up on Gamer’s Nexus’ page.

What’s the context here?

“no one should be living there” in reference to the LEGAL DOMICILE, the home itself.

Nowhere in the article does it imply there is nobody living in the three story housing complex. The article and everyone is rightfully talking about the crawlspace, a space nobody should be living.

The fuck? It’s a crawlspace. You can’t legally rent that out anywhere.

Nope, you don’t get to live in my house without my permission. You are free to invite strangers to live in your house, I’ll even cheer you on.

With how much money some people spend on pickups now, I feel like an entry level MRAP for $100,000 would be much cooler.

Probably worse on gas mileage than a pickup though. ;p

I don’t get why people are fine with arming the police with military hardware like MRAPs.

they should never have access to things beyone what ordinary civilians can get

A civilian can buy an MRAP.

Yeah, these armored vehicles are being given away for almost free. No appreciable amount of training money is going toward armored vehicle purchases. There are certainly things to criticize here, but the meme is attacking a false reality. (Furthermore, the armored vehicle pictured is mislabeled as a tank for some reason)

Yeah, you can install both, then just pick which one you want during login.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=214635

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But not native support.

Yes with native support. By default too.

Cinnamon uses slightly more resources than the other two. But, it’s lightweight enough I doubt you are going to have an issue, even with a computer of that era.

Head on over to Update Manager > Edit and upgrade to 22.2!

does that mean i can upgrade normally and not worry about the kernel?

Yeah, just doing the upgrade via Update Manager > Edit menu leaves you on the 6.8 kernel. Confirmed with all three of my machines I upgraded.

Two of them I have since put on kernel 6.14 via Update Manager > Kernels, after updating to Mint 22.2 and seeing it still on kernel 6.8.

If you are currently running Mint 22.1, the upgrade will show up in the Update Manager > Edit menu.

Edit: I updated my machines this way. I’m guessing it isn’t set to automatically move one from kernel 6.8 to 6.14? I can obviously change the kernel via the Kernels menu in Update Manager, I’m just wondering why this wasn’t automatic.