All linux distros are the same OS but with a different community managing packaging. So what software is available to be installed/ or updated automatically; how and how frequently things are update, e.g. bleeding edge or only stable versions, whether the kernel (the os) is continually updated or has discrete versions; the software and configuration shipped with the installation software and; what software is used to manage the system.

It’s not a very significant choice, and if you keep user and system stuff on different partitions you can change distributions at will.

I use arch and have for a very long time. I think arch is an excellent choice if and only if you are interested in maintaining and understanding a linux system. If you just want to click buttons and have it all work, and maybe put up with some stuff that’s configured not exactly how you would like then fedora is a rolling release distribution that has many packages available kept up to date.

You will have to spend a bit of time reading documentation, and learning basic self help like looking up how to use tools via the “man toolname” command.

You’ll probably manage most of your pirated games via a piece of software called lutris, and will want to use helpful tools like proton-up to install compatibility layers.

Repack installs are sometimes hard to run properly but everything else is really straight forward. Just take the time to understand how wine/proton works so you’re not copy pasting blindly and getting frustrated.

You can dual-boot although windows can be persnickety about sharing the boot partition. Guides are around, e.g. https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/dual_boot_setup_guide/

Linux installations are very light and don’t need much space (games do but you can read the windows partition from linux and just run a compatibility tool through steam if you have steam games)

Bazzite is a bad OS for general computing (advanced concepts required to move away from stock config) but good for “it just works” gaming. Fedora is a good general OS and for playing games although some software will need installing.

You need a compatibility layer to run windows games on linux. Wine is this for most people, proton is built on wine.

If it’s installed via steam it will use proton by default. If you install it elsewhere you will need to set it up yourself, however interfaces like lutris have install scripts for many non-steam pieces of software and you can always study one if you need to write your own/manually set up a wine root (pretend C drive with the game an appropriate compatibility stuff).

You can check the state of games running on wine/proton here: https://www.protondb.com/

100 thousand years ago you’d say human nature was to live in small bands and only assemble for seasonal hunts or cultural events. Anything else would be perpetual war.

10000 years ago you would be saying that it’s against human nature to be sedentary or do repetitive work so agriculture is ultimately only a hobby at best.

4000 years ago you’d say it’s human nature to live in city states ruled by tyrant warrior-kings and dedicate your life to cereal farming.

Maybe human nature isn’t some well characterised and stiff thing? humans have lived in more ways than you can dream of.

https://youtu.be/qEnR7UxQybk

there are no open source models. There are open weight models.

No models make available the way in which they were produced, aka the source.

You know someone is cool when they take the time to tell you that they’re blocking you.

I don’t even know what plex is but my god your comment smacks of brandbrained cope

First 2 articles are the same piece of malware. It’s not a common attack I don’t think people need to worry about being 100% safe from everything because if you’re installing game mods, or cheats, or browser addons, or anything from GitHub that’s a way more realistic vector

How many things have been able to jump through secure boot uefi? You don’t really need to be max security all the time. Like realistically most people are installing dozens of completely untrustworthy pieces of software.

Safe from 99% of low effort malware is fine for most people. Toxic max security doesn’t increase compliance

That is not what I said lol. Your reading comprehension is arse and your attitude is useless.

Do you really work in infosec? Just have a separate machine/dual boot.

You can verify game files against known good hashes as well, and in non denowo cases run cracks in sandboxes or vms.

The same basis practices you’d use to analyse malware apply

They don’t… If you mean Uighurs the UN did not recognise the arrests as a genocide, neither did the ICJ or ICC. The camps are closed and the Uighurs still exist, you can go visit the cities where they are an ethnic majority.

If you have a vibratory tool you can join whatever since PLA melts so low but round shit you can put in a chuck will weld with a drill. They do wear down a bit though, so you need some extra material and you stop when it’s in the right place.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/edited-volume/9780815515814/handbook-of-plastics-joining pirate this and read chapter 17 it’s really valuable

I actually prefer other kinds of fastening for pla. Magnets can be melted into undersized holes via a soldering iron (just avoid cooking too hot, keep it around 100 degrees).

Push fits and friction welds work well in certain applications.

And yet the decline continues! One great man does not determine the course of a nation and albo is not even that.

Meanwhile, Australia is actually progressing a little bit

If you mean progressing towards a fascist decline sure. We’ve had literal Nazis march in the street alongside politicians who gave their support, an extremely brutal crackdown on the right to protest, right wing parties surging, continued undermining of healthcare and education in favour of the bourgeois, expansion of fossil fuel projects, hardcore backing of ultraright wing militarism in the usa and Japan.

Cunt’s fucked mate.

China has lifted almost a billion people out of the extreme poverty left by colonial exploitation and drug wars.

Lead the way on actual green transition globally and is basically the only large nation meaningfully trying to avert the catastrophe that will render a huge swath of the planet uninhabitable in a few generations displacing billions of people.

Stood up to US and EU exploitative colonial hegemony in favour of international law repeatedly. China continually advocates for actually following the RBO in the face of rapacious USA warmaking.

China has not engaged in an offensive war since the revoltion.

Distributed vaccinations cheaply to nations the west would not sell to during the last pandemic which killed fucking millions of people.

Has set up alternative funding programs for countries to develop that are far less exploitative than IMF loans.

Is all of this self interested to some degree? If course it is. Is it self interested to the detriment of the world? I think you would struggle to make that case when held up next to other superpowers.

What the fuck is your threshold for a good nation? Has anyone in the 21st century met it?

Well done! bet you got a lot better at soldering quickly haha!

You’re also giving money to a company that has completely screwed all the people who made 3d printing possible by a culture of open sharing.