I find it funny how Winux (a Linux distro that looks uncannily similar to Windows 11) is advertising itself as

No hardware limitations, no absurd requirements.

when Linux has notoriously spotty hardware support and it has the absurd requirements of “every user must be very technical, very patient, very comfortable on the command line, and they must enjoy tinkering every time something breaks”

I definitely think Winux is a cool concept but like, I’m not going to install this on my mom’s computer and trust it to not explode in 2 months when the DE gets borked by an update or something

https://tech.lgbt/@deilann/115192001364701834

@deilann

I am begging you all to realize how much power states have in the United States. National news is sexy and it's easy for broadcasters to cherry pick the most interesting things happening nationally. But each state is different, and has different policies. Most things that bother you about "government" are done by your state government. Elections are run by your state. Programs are administered by your state government, who tack on their own regulations.

Local organizing is the most impactful thing you can do, and making an effort to organize and take back your state will also lead to organizing and getting better federal representatives. On the "political" front, that's what you can do. And on the civic front, local organizing is at the core of everything. Projecting state issues to the nation at large is a large part of why our political environment is so disfunctional, everyone has massively different experiences and contexts.

Dark Souls 1: in order to avoid damage you can dodge-roll, parry, block, or get out of the way. but! you can’t parry bosses, so be careful

Dark Souls 3: we nerfed blocking and made parrying much more difficult and made dodge-rolls very fast and spammable. bosses still aren’t parryable but now bosses are extremely fast and aggressive and attack in long combos so blocking won’t work either

Elden Ring: people were still finding ways to block and parry so we nerfed them even more. now the only way to deal with an enemy is to tap B with perfect rhythm to i-frame through their unstoppable onslaught of attacks and then get 1-2 hits in before repeating the pattern

whatever FromSoft releases next: we combined shields and parrying into one move, the try-to-block. when an enemy attacks you can press LB to try-to-block. it will always fail, but if you get the timing perfect you will also lose all of your stamina and get knocked backwards 30 meters. also boss fights are now a rhythm game where you tap B to win

I hate this entire country. the marginalized people who are able to claw their way into having some approximation of a fair chance are chewed up and spit out and left to rot. meanwhile the rest of us have been left to rot for our entire lives

and we’re all trapped here in this nightmare country that wants us to die because it costs money to leave, and we’ve been starved of money our entire lives