That’s just like, your opinion man.

Dead cmos battery that caused the bios to lose its config?

There’s a system for dennis already.

There is a very, very short list of games that don’t “just work” in linux at this point.

If your daily gaming is nothing but LoL or twitch competitive shooters and you’ve gotta play whatever the trend is, linux won’t work 100% of the time. In basically any other case, it just works for gaming. If you MUST play some kind of competitive shooter, it’s real easy to have a dual boot setup with windows for that game.

If the competitive shooters you want are supported here, there’s no reason to use windows for gaming. https://areweanticheatyet.com/ - Right now the biggest pain points are probably Battlefield 6, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Apex, Valorant, Fortnite… aka the games where the teenagers tell you how they fucked your mom. Many, many other titles just work, like The Finals, ARC Raiders, Counter-Strike 2, etc.

Even with some games that do not have anti-cheat support, you can still run the game, you just have to join servers setup for linux that effectively do not have anticheat enabled. I think real flesh and blood admins do a better job anyway.

Signs point to no, but it depends what the outcome is in 5-10 years. Each time it swings one way too far, the result is the other way going even further. If this swings super hard left we could see an end to the GOP functionally… which I can’t imagine happening but anything is possible if the left resurgence is strong enough.

In 2015, I used to say “A vote for trump is a vote for total system collapse.”

Glad to see I was right.

Why do people keep buying this shit?

You don’t have to leave your house. $50 aint much to a lot of people, even those making minimum wage in a lot of cases. People have way more disposable income in this country than they let on, there’s always ways to minimize expenses. Housing costs are probably the biggest costs for me, and that could be split four or five ways if I really wanted to save money (but i’d rather spend thousands of dollars a month to not deal with other people.)

My brother routinely takes a ride share service to mcdonalds with his wife, they eat, then they go back in another rideshare. it’s still cheaper, and the food is always fresh, and the rewards you get from app rewards programs are honestly pretty good when you game the system.

I think between the tip and fees, it would be closer to $18 or so.

The fees are insane, they triple dip the one sided negotiation.

But what if I’m allergic?

No shit, and all the widely used captchas in the world have been training ML models too… as have all the voice recordings from all the smart assistants in everybody’s homes, phones and cars.