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As a consequence, he's the richest person in the world and Tesla is a 1.5 Trillion dollar company. It has TEN times the P/E of companies like apple, microsoft, and google. More than 5x Nvidia, even.

Why do we live in a world that rewards the worst shit? I mean even Trump is a real billionaire now.

Sober is awesome, and I can actually have Roblox LAN parties with my son thanks to it.

Mint has a driver manager application that makes installing nvidia drivers point-and-click simple.

Come to think of it, the three PCs I use on a regular basis all have nvidia GPUs (970, 1080, discrete quadro in a dell laptop) and all are running Mint. No problems, even playing games.

I even use that one script to unlock the number of simultaneous NVENC sessions after I update the driver.

Big wisdom in this.

Don't assume it is "checking out" from society or taking the easy way out. The news will find you, don't worry. Plus maintaining focus on your thing is something that can take significant effort.

I have noticed that the smaller I make my world, the happier I am. My free time goes into my family, friends, hobbies, and pets (which I guess is a big subset of the hobbies). I think a big part of the benefit is not just focusing on the people who can have the biggest effect on my life, but focusing on the people whose life I can improve the most with my involvement.

Our brains evolved to keep tabs on our clan or our village, not to monitor the events of the entire Earth in near real time, as if we're going to do anything with that information. In fact, I think that "need" to be informed is often just an addiction manufactured by the need to drive engagement to validate 24/7 news as a business model.

A 3 bedroom house in a suburban neighborhood in some random midwest area could be below the national median price for single family homes pretty easily, I bet.

My house is old and small, but it has 4 bedrooms and a level fenced-in back yard and is worth WAY less than the current median that's up in the $400,000s.

and I struggle to believe anyone was seriously pretending it would cause capital flight.

I can instantly believe it with near zero reservations.

I mean, that's how most people seem to be about most things.

But when you put them in a context that makes people get tribal like choice of phone, game console, political party, or religion, it goes into turbo-dumb.

I feel this so deeply, I think my bones are getting sore.

To set the scene: I live in the oldest, cheapest neighborhood in my town -- among single family homes at least. We're centrally located within walking distance of the elementary school. The town itself is well located too, and is growing like crazy and considered a fairly affluent area within the region.

Along with the cheap house, we have two cars both 10+ years old, and my wife is able to be a stay at home mom and help our family stay super involved in the community and the school. It is a pretty great setup, but one that I have been consciously working towards and making sacrifices to reach.

Watching other parents, it is both aggravating and heartbreaking to see how often people with their own young children are starting their day by anger-driving their brand new bulbous luxury SUVs through the school parking lot and on the nearby roads that kids use to walk to school.

It's easy to blame the individuals, and certainly it's in their best interests to work on their issues and goals and priorities any way they can. But we on Lemmy know that there are systemic financial and cultural forces constantly pushing people into the rat race lifestyle and telling them that earn + consume + daycare is the life that a good american strives for.

Speaking of the systemic issues that force people into the capitalist grinder, here is my unfortunate reality check:

What does it take to live that Homer Simpson existence of the working dad supporting his small family in a below-average home with some old cars that have been paid off for several years, while still having some pets and hobbies and occasional vacation?

I'm a middle-aged tech worker with three college degrees, living in the cheap neighborhood full of elderly people, blue collar working class folks, and rental homes with multiple adults sharing it. My car even has a broken windshield right now, lol.

Yeah, I'm an old software engineer who uses linux on all of my actual computers, but I still have an old iphone for doing phone shit.

In the real world, most outspoken anti-apple people aren't super techy and use some nightmare of corporate bloat phone they bought at the Verizon store.

Here on Lemmy though, you have a WAY higher proportion of people who are running devices they actually control.

If I assume good intentions in the people you are talking about, maybe this is a case of different assumed contexts between speaker and listener. Some people have just seen the "another republican known for actively harming LGBT+ folks revealed as closeted self-loathing asshole" cliche so many times that it's a go-to comment for that specific type of person.

So it wouldn't be that all people you don't like are gay. More like the outspoken conservatives you don't like. Admittedly that's still painting with a broad brush.

With all that said, I can't assume good intentions across the board so there are plenty of people for whom you are correct.

And it gets even worse with the apparent popularity of pedophilia among the world's elite. Conservatives have already spent many years framing any sex stuff they personally find icky to be equally evil and bad for society.

Thank you so much for posting that second update.

I might have suggested you just start with the US because getting away from the immediate threat was a lot more important than not living somewhere with a crazy government.

But now that you are half way into your journey, I bet your way will turn out better!

Well, you can't say that unless you know what his goals were, lol. It wouldn't be the first time somebody used their charisma and/or social awareness to hurt society.