Fortunately for me, I had not until just now 😒

Sounds like a legal and maintenance nightmare

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As per the article: “A nine-day reporting trip by The Washington Post through the region…”.

Ah, interesting. My apologies, I’ve been driving all day and have been checking my phone sporadically and haven’t had the time to properly read the article. I have now.

but it’s so exhausting seeing the same talking points of concern trolls like you who have heard on reddit and Lemmy …

I totally understand, and I do apologize for propagating this behaviour. My knowledge was outdated and that’s no one’s fault but my own.

All in all though, my whole point is honestly just that I don’t really trust any government to be totally truthful in regards to information they share, regardless of whether that’s the US, China, or even my home country, and my initial assumption was that this information was coming from them directly. Clearly, I was incorrect in this case, spouted some outdated shit confidently, and I apologize. I appreciate your patience.

And the information they publish comes from where exactly?

There is no need for snarkiness, by the way. You act like Im attacking you directly. If this is how you communicate, I’m just going to block you and move on with my life.

I’m sure the government that lied about wrongly imprisoning people in the first place is totally being truthful now.

I wouldn’t take the Chinese or US government’s claims at face value.

To be fair, China is 2nd in overall prison population by country globally, so it’s not like their numbers are complete bs. I’m sure there is some fudging in what constitutes as a “prisoner” when they have had “re-education camps” though. That said, the US’s numbers are fucking insane.

A tip: you can build your own car using a Raspberry Pi. There are kits. There are motors and batteries that impress.

I never intended to insult you, I was merely explaining how my ADHD manifests.

I made the incorrect assumption that you were coming from a more neurotypical perspective, and for that, I sincerely apologize, but nowhere did I insult you. If you took this as an insult, again, my apologies.

Sick, infantalizing others because they don’t like to do things the way that works for you. Super cool, man.

You clearly do not have ADHD. Those are where things go to be forgotten forever.

Really? I think I see more Ukrainians than Russians on there. That may change if you’re playing from Europe, though?

Blyat?

My game of choice is CS2, so it didn’t factor into my switch at all, but as someone who’s been on EndeavourOS for a little over a week now, I have no regrets. Join uuuuus.

For me, I’ve been throwing distros on a spare SSD so I could test run in a proper install, but I’m sure a thumbdrive would be fine. Just keep in mind that you might get some hangs and things will be slower due to the speed of the drive, rather than the inefficiencies of the OS you end up on. If you want to test out specific programs or games or something, you can always do what I did and put them on a separate faster storage drive (I’m on SATA SSD for my OS right now, but am putting other things on NVME).

As I mentioned elsewhere, I still have my Windows on another drive so I can boot to it if I need to, but I honestly haven’t needed to even once since switching, so I’ll probably end up just switching to VM only for anything that requires Windows fairly soon here.

The transition has been much simpler and smoother than I ever had imagined.

Plus these days you can just use AI to scan your entire system in detail and explain where everything is while sending that data back to their creator.

Oh wait, sorry, that’s Windows, my bad.

Absolutely agree, edited post. Was meant as a joke, clearly wasn’t in good taste and I apologize. It’s pretty solid, just not for me.

I don’t think they’re saying it as a problem or trying to argue with you, just stating reality 😅

Right now, I still have Windows as dual boot in case things go sideways or I run into road blocks with work, but my plan is to move all of that to a VM in the near future (and ideally an actual work supplied machine with a KVM eventually). At that point, I could see myself falling back onto something like Pop!_OS as a stable side install if/when my main OS is having issues and I just want to play a game and not bash my head against a console for 5 hours.

Sorry to be so seemingly unfair to Pop OS, what it does it does do quite well, just not for me as a main driver.

You just have to install steam, haha. I got CS2 up and running in 10 minutes 😝