That’s kinda obvious though, isn’t it? I don’t think many people are choosing to move to the USA nowadays. And the ones that already live there can’t really just move out - either due to family ties, bureaucracy or lack of resources to do so. I’m guessing that the last one is the biggest factor.

America seems pretty big on making their citizens under-educated and deeply indebted. Most other countries don’t let you migrate into them unless you can prove that you’re financially stable and can hold down employment. My parents moved from Russia to Germany about 20 years ago, and that was only possible because they were highly educated and the company that my father was brought in to work for could prove that literally no other candidate in Europe could do the job.

Now imagine you’re an american kid, either fresh out of college with a ton of debt or never having done college with no proof of education. Either way, there’s a good chance your only previous employment was in the gig economy. The chance that any other country would happily let you move in is pretty slim…

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I’ve been daily driving Bazzite with Gnome too for the last few weeks! It works perfectly fine, but I was weirdly unhappy with the aesthetic of it, despite knowing for a fact that I love Gnome, especially the bare-bones Gnome that CachyOS has.
I only found out about Gnome extensions a few days ago while trying to get rid of the ugly Bazzite Logo in my top bar. It’s probably super obvious to anyone else, but those extensions make such a huge difference and playing around with different ones is absolutely worth it!
OP, if you do end up going with Bazzite, go to the “Extension Manager” and toggle a few of those on or off to see the difference! Getting new ones is super easy too!

I recently switched my parents old Macbook with a random Dell Notebook running ZorinOS and they’re pretty happy with it so far! So maybe that could be an option for you? Their guides are very easy to follow as well - https://help.zorin.com/

Just like with bog-corpses, the canal environment will be what protects until they are dug up again

Year 7-9 was pretty alright for me! I had cut out all the people I dislike in my class by year 6 so after that I had a nice, tight-knit friend group.

When I was a teenager, my main source of income was online Usability testing. It was pretty inconsistent, some weeks were 10$, some were 60$, but it took fairly little effort and time. All I had to do was click through a website and narrate how my experience with it was.

It probably pays way less nowadays, but I remember that usertesting.com was my main website for this back in the day because they paid 10$ per test (even if it’s just 10min) and had plenty of opportunities. If you want to try it, make sure to state your household income/education level/job is a bit more than it actually is. You do get more tests that way

I’m pretty new to the whole Linux thing as well and personally, I’ve been liking ZorinOS much better than Mint. Mostly just because it’s prettier, everything else works just as well haha

I went to the midnight release of Avengers Endgame and one guy showed up in full Iron Man Cosplay. Seeing him walk out of that theater at the end of the movie was the highlight of my entire year.

Installing one distro on one laptop and then only using that laptop to figure out how to install the next distro on the other laptop! That would give me an actual goal in each distro I install too, since I’d have to get the wifi and browser working and figure out how to run that program that burns iso files onto a usb stick :0
… that would be such an entertaining youtube video concept too, I wish I was into video making haha

I actually have tried it on the bigger laptop by now and somehow Bazzite runs Sekiro more smoothly than my “Gaming” Lenovo Legion Y530 that has an actual GPU and is from around the same time ever did. 🫣 It was completely unplayable on my other Laptop… which makes me think that maybe I misconfigured it to not actually use the GPU back in the day??? I’ll have to experiment with that a bit more haha

Man I wish I could participate in the programmer socks joke, but I feel like it just doesn’t really hit the same when an afab person does it :(

Not yet, but I have seen that it is very popular on Distrowatch! :D It’s definitely in my backlog

Very reasonable in this economy!

That’s actually an awesome project and I’m coincidentally moving close to one of their locations soon :o

Well now I want to install it just to try to break it lol

That’s a neat pointer! I have been meaning to look into self-hosting anyway since my AWS free tier is running out pretty soon and I need a new place to cheaply plant down my in-development website project haha

Ooh, Nix looks interesting, I’d be down for the challenge!

There’s this youtube video where a lady checks the bacterial density that accumulates on a towel as it is used for several days in a row: https://youtu.be/4NWxU5RIUnI

TL;DR is that it’s completely fine for the first 9 days or so