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  • I always feel a sense of dissonance (I think that's the right word?) when I see posts like this. Everyone seems to be talking about this, but I haven't noticed a difference. Honestly, when I look up something, what I'm looking for is usually in the first few results. Not really sure how to feel about my experience being so different from others.

  • Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society
  • It really depends on the culture of the area, but yeah overall it'd probably be less stigmatized on average. It would certainly be stigmatized though—some people forget that many people consider sexual acts in general (that others can see, like posting pictures on the Internet, porn work, etc.) wrong in the first place. A lot of people online don't interact with these people a lot—not necessarily because they 'don't touch grass' but because these are often the people who chose not to be active in social media. When you consider that they see a woman posting a steamy picture of herself online as wrong, it makes sense why.

    Many people have grown up with a very conservative (sexuality wise, at least) mindset, and that's just the way they were taught to see things.

    I think that because of that, it's not unlikely that a large portion of people would still see person doing these things, even if not for monetary gain, as "sluts" or something similar.

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    Do Christians really think that being educated is sinful and should be avoided?
  • The simple answer is, generally no. Most modern Christians are far more moderate and flimsy in their beliefs than one might think. There's always going to be extremists in any situation, but someone that identifies as a "Christian" in the modern world is generally shaped by the modern world. You'll be hard pressed to find someone deny basic science in today's world.

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    TikTok sues the US government over ban
  • Important rights of businesses in the US constitution include

    Important note regarding a business's right to regulate free speech: The rules of the Constitution are meant to regulate Congress, not businesses or citizens. Therefore, the right to free speech means Congress cannot restrict someone from speaking his or her mind, but a business may be able to.

    For example, a radio show has the right to not allow a certain person to speak on its program or to say certain things. Ultimately, such issues are decided by the Supreme Court, and there may be some exceptions, depending on the circumstances.

  • Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption
  • The weird part is, when you actually talk to a Conservative irl, they don't care about EVs. Sure they might not like them—they might even think they're a Political scheme or whatever. But they at least understand that there are more important things happening. Politicians failure to represent their user base's viewpoint in the US is always astounding.

  • How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals
  • If I'm trying to actually be realistic and understand it rather than just insult people—I think this Is due to a lot of different things, but a large one is that conservatives see liberals as "the ones running the world". They feel oppressed, and silenced, and therefore lash out. This builds overtime. Liberals do not see conservatives the same way.

  • Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
  • I forgot about Chromebooks—granted, I don't really think of those as what I mean. I don't generally think that "user friendly = restricted and less control", though I'm sure others would disagree. I don't think of Chromebooks as real mainstream Linux.

    Oh, and the steam deck has done this I believe, though I don't own one so I don't know how restricted that is either.

  • Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
  • Recently built a new PC and clean installed Nobara Linux. It's so much... Better. In every way, except for compatibility—and even that's not close to as bad as people say it is. Granted, I had used mostly open source programs before (still quite disappointed that Playnite isn't available on Linux, I do miss that) but I'm using mostly the same software. The pre-done compatibility fixes etc. that the Nobara team has done (huge props to them!) has made it far easier than i even expected. It really is getting to the point that I want a major laptop/PC manufacturer to ship with a polished, user friendly Linux distro, and get the ball rolling.

  • If presidential immunity is absolute..
  • Wait, I've been out of the loop for a bit; is Trump actually saying that he should be immune to charges because he was the president??? How in the world could he think that would work?

  • Having an error running as sudo in Nobara Linux

    for context: I have an Asrock b450m/ac R2.0 MoBo (that seems to matter), and I'm running Nobara Linux. I was using OpenRGB to control some rgb fans and it was working fine, although I couldn't control the individual LEDs. Then suddenly (Can't think of anything I did that would've messed it up, other than maybe going from the 'effects' tab (from the plugin) to the default one, and clicking apply color, that's when it happened) it stopped recognizing my devices. I read online that I needed to run it as sudo, but when I do, I get this error Attempting to connect to local OpenRGB server. Connection attempt failed Local OpenRGB server unavailable. Running standalone. [i2c_smbus_linux] Failed to read i2c device PCI device ID QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted From looking online it seemed to be the SMBus access problem mentioned in the OpenRGB Docs, and so I tried following these steps, but honestly I think I'm too new to really understand how to do it right. It felt like things kept going wrong during the patching of the kernel part, up until the last line, which simply didn't work.

    As a Linux noob, I would super appreciate very noob friendly responses. Any help would be really appreciated.

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    New to Linux—Epic Games compatibility? (Plus more)

    I'm thinking of installing Linux (think I'm going to use Nobara) on my new budget gaming PC, and my biggest worry is video games compatibility. I have most of my games on Steam and Epic. Some on GOG, and some on Itch. I know a bit about steam compatibility, but not much about the rest. Is this something I need to worry about, or should it just work?

    Edit: for anyone that finds this, sounds like the Heroic Launcher is the way to go. Thanks everyone!

    Edit 2: I've used Heroic Launcher and Steam + Proton for a few days now, works great! I'd recommend it to anyone with a similar question.

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    Linux Newbie here, can I have some advice on dual booting my windows laptop

    I've used Windows my whole life, except for a 2006 Mac OS X I got when I was a kid, and I never thought about switching away from it. However, in recent times, I've grown to care more about FOSS and customizability, and I'm also a bit more tech-savvy than the average person, I'd say. As such, I've of course heard of Linux, and didn't realize how simple it was to install certain distros until my brother installed Linux Mint on an old laptop he repaired. I want to play around with it and see if it's something I'd be interested in, but at the moment I only have one computer, which is my laptop, and I don't think it'd be a good idea to do a full switch over when all my important stuff is on here. As such, I've heard people talk about "dual booting" which from what I understand means having both Windows and Linux on the computer, and picking which to use on start up? This sounds like a perfect environment to play around with Linux, assign it like 50GB of space (Is that enough?) and see if I like it, but I'm very ignorant about a lot of things related to Linux, and don't want to start playing around with something I don't understand. Advice would be appreciated.

    Sadly there's a few too many replies for my busy self to respond to. I'll say thanks for the help though, I appreciate it!

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