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Cake day: March 6th, 2025

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  • I was trying to make the leap but I’m now stuck without sound on Linux Mint. Just be aware that if you have some critical need (I’m job hunting and need to do some video conference interviews) that things can and do go past shaped and it’s not always straight forward to fix it.

    Go dual boot until you’re confident that you can rely on it.

    I’ll try to find some time to fix the sound and I’ll switch back to it or another distro.



  • They need to introduce a way for them to officially grift. Some kind of performance based bonus tied to the economy, environment, minimum wage, approval or some other measurement. They’re never going to give up the grift without some kind of replacement.

    Either that, or just vote for people that aren’t rich sociopaths. Seems easy when you say it out loud.






  • As a 48 year old expecting his first child, I can confirm that you will always look back and think this and I’m certain I will again in the future.

    OP, don’t rush to make these decisions even if there is a good chance that you won’t change your mind. There are medicines that are very close (or maybe available now?) that will achieve some of the same benefits without surgery. There might be a smarter choice for you if you take your time with this decision.




  • But you could do this with every story/movie trope that’s been repeated throughout our species history. The concept of retelling stories in different contexts is itself not new but for sure reason Avatar gets overly criticised for it.

    You don’t see the same criticisms for every bank heist movie that all follow the same basic premises as each other. I just did it a bit weird why so many people are against this particular trope. Is it because it tries to deal with our history of oppression and colonisation? I honestly don’t know.

    I doubt there are any truly original stories that couldn’t be shown to be a retelling of another. I would even argue that some genres wouldn’t exist if this wasn’t a thing.