I don’t know what the argument at this point is. So, you want to abolish ICE and then what? Have another agency do everything that ICE already does (in that case, which is just renaming the agency that does border security and immigration enforcement), or just not have immigration enforcement at all?

If it’s the former, why do we need to have another agency do it when we can just reform ICE? If the latter, you don’t care about border security? You don’t care about people coming here undocumented when the people who actually want to come legally have to wait years for a waitlist and over immigration causing instability, and drug smuggling and human trafficking? We should just let all of these flow in as much as they want? Because the idea is apparently, we must live like it’s the 1700s because things haven’t changed?

When you’re on the border with a country ran by drug cartels and are the #1 destination in the world for illegal immigration yes you need an agency capable of defending itself.

Make it easier to prosecute officials who greenlight secret policies like warrantless searches, and to prosecute agents who murder. Otherwise, ICE is a necessary agency. It’s an absolutely insane idea to say we should just completely get rid of immigration enforcement.

Classic Google ignoring devices people still use that are bootloader locked meaning you can’t even update them to a secure OS even if you wanted to. And allowing vendors to prevent phones from getting security updates. The phone industry is a total scam.

You would need to use distilled water for powdered water, which is doable, but inconvenient in many situations. Unless you want double strength water, then any water is fine.

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I tried the update on two different machines (one with a SATA SSD boot drive, other with M.2), and my Steam startup time is still about 15 seconds on both.

It seems plausible they just didn’t care enough and the fix actually was easy. After this long of it being slow, I don’t understand why it would coincidentally happen now other than a complacent blindspot being awoken.

I updated my client and startup still takes 15 seconds. Granted, my boot drive is a SATA3 Samsung 850 EVO, but 15 seconds is still much slower than any other program I have, even Adobe programs. So I don’t know if the update works universally for everyone or something went wrong.

The question is why did it take a meme to push Valve to fix its awful, decades old Steam loading time?

I’ve thought more about the dangers of artificial consciousness than you would expect.

It inherently isn’t torture though. I prefer punishing people who actually commit torture.

Transistors switching really fast = emotions lul

Evil government

I tried the video editor and photo editor. Lot’s of missing features, but to give them credit the project isn’t even a week old from initial release. I don’t even think effects work at all in the video editor. Then, GIF support is totally broken/missing in the photo editor. But the base structure is there, but right now they’re more like simple programs dressed up as complex programs because of the amount of broken or missing feaures.

I found Kubuntu has the same two problems I detailed but I made slightly more progress this time. The USB DAC would’ve likely also worked at 100% volume in CashyOS I just didn’t think to try it because of my ears. I’m sure some manual config edit can fix that but I expect something basic like sound to work by default and knowing it doesn’t makes me assume other basic things will be a pain in the future.

Then I actually tried subsampling in an X11 session this time, but the problem is the Night Light hue becomes green. But 4k120 at ycbcr 4:2:0 does work in principle. And the fact that this is in xorg config rather than a settings GUI, all this config text editing is so slow and sketchy for me.

I got a 1 TB SN850X for $90 a couple years ago for my game and page file drive. Also Patriot 2x8 5600 for like $80 in 2023. Very disappointing what has happened since then.

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In Kubuntu, I was able to get my HT Omega Fenix sound card to work (switching profile to the correct spdif output), but the Audioengine D3 only works at 100% volume. This is the kind of thing that it’s like cool if it’s a one time thing. But you just know if it can’t work out of the box for something like a USB DAC, it’s not gonna be all fun down the line for other more specialized hardware I try to use.

I also tried getting 4:2:0 subsampling to work in an X11 session in Kubuntu. I was able to get there editing xorg.conf (which is annoying having to edit a config file - no option for it in the Nvidia X Server settings). 4K120 over HDMI works in principle, but then Night Light’s hue becomes green instead of red.

Additionally, Kubuntu (KDE Plasma) was the best looking and functional desktop I found when browsing various ones (it has the taskbar customization settings I want built in), but it still just feels kind of cheap to me. The early 2000s looking pngs everywhere, the transparency and jiggling in window dragging, very basic looking UI icons. It feels more cute and amateurish rather than serious, visuals and design wise.

The need for editing configs to get to basic functions I expect in Windows really went against my expectations this time around trying Linux. I really bought into the LTT Linux hype. But it genuinely surprised me just how sketchy the experience was for my needs.

I understand it’s free software which is awesome, and that Linux is necessary for the world and a solid backup against Windows, but all of this is not working for me. Gonna stop my search for now after trying CachyOS and Kubuntu. Maybe when SteamOS is in full wide-release mode I will try that.

Thank you everyone.

I also noticed sound wasn’t working from my pcie sound card either (HT Omega Fenix). So sound just wasn’t working in general.

Well, Windows can install fine from DVDs afaik. I don’t do W11 on it because it got too large for single layer. But I own a bluray drive and blank discs which are cheaper to use as permanent OS install sources than USB drives. The drive also helps if I want to run emulators that can play discs.

At the same time I’m not even sure the disc was the reason the original install bugged. I was just looking through settings to get acquainted then it quit.