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do americans still pay mostly in cash? we haven't had the penny since like 2012 here in Canada and...it wasn't a big deal at all because no one paid with pennies anyways. if something is $8.23 as stated then you just pay $8.25 if you're paying cash. But hell most people just pay debit or credit these days to the point where most CSRs just assume you're paying debit and if you whip out cash it confuses them and they have to cancel the debit machine.

I can't even remember the last time I drew out cash or had it on me.

watched a video yesterday of agents going into a god damn daycare and pulling out a caregiver who was screaming. a god damn daycare.

all the while people are standing by filming and I just felt an incredible amount of rage at watching it. I'm not even american and I was angry. This poor woman was screaming and crying and being dragged out of a fucking daycare centre begging for her life.

If I were a parent and I saw either of these things happening first hand I would go ballistic. And with all the stories going around now of people posing as ICE agents to rob and sexually assault women how do I know these fuckers arn't one of them?

it blows my mind that there's no body count on ice agents yet. I'm honestly surprised no one has shot at them.

The thing about Vim is once you get the navigation down you'll want it for everything and you'll refuse to go back to anything else.

I used Vim for so long that I can't live without some form of vim style navigation. my Window Manager uses it, my web browser uses it, all my TUIs use it, hell I even switched to Emacs and installed Doom Emacs and THAT uses it. Now I only ever use a mouse for gaming because you realize that navigating around your PC purely with your keyboard is actually faster than using a mouse. I've disabled the touchpad completely on both my laptops.

If you're digging Vim check out NeoVim with LazyVim. makes plugins and theming and what have you easier. I use it as my backup to DOOM Emacs.

eh even at $100 I wouldn't. it's a 15 year old Alienware...

so lets look at the specs online: At most you're going to get 16gb of ram out of it. that's it. it's not able to do more so it's at most 16gb but likely might be 8gb. The processor is a gen 4 i7 The GPU is likely going to be at most a gtx 970 so again, meh.

Nvidia cards don't have a bad rep on Linux but you're going to struggle with a 15+ year old dedicated gpu.

Honestly at $100 you can probably find a better spec'd laptop online via a third market like craigslist or whatever is popular where you are. Sure this thing is only $100 but getting it up and running and gaming is probably going to cause you more headaches than what it's worth.

if you want to get a cheap PC for your son I'd suggest you wait and save up a bit more to get something better/more recent. a 15 year old PC isn't going to last you long.

when I first switched to linux I used mint for all of two weeks, was an awful experience and almost made me go back to windows until someone told me to try cachyos instead.

I haven't used Mint since but I might install it on my VM to give it another crack since likely it was personal user error that made it awful for me. Just had constant issues with my nvidia gpu.

I'd cut this up into separate posts in all honesty as it's one massive info dump and could be extremely imitating to someone looking to try linux for the first time. I think you focused too much on why to switch and not exactly HOW to switch.

Maybe just focus on one distro also. Yes there are a lot of choices but there's no harm on rolling with one distro for a couple weeks until you get your legs under you and then feel free to hop around.

2001 or 2011.

2001 easily had the most games that were highly rated and as others have said you some real classics. The PS2 was hitting it's stride, the original Xbox Launched, and the Gamecube was right there.

2011 also had some damn amazing games: Arkham City, Portal 2, Skyrim, Skyward Sword, Minecraft, Mortal Kombat 9, Starcraft II, Bastion, Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3 to name a few.

well duh.

you pay more for less shitty food. I don't know how it is in the US but here in Canada it's like $20 for a double quarter pounder with cheese meal (for example) why would I pay that when I could go across the road to a burger king (again as an example) and pay $16 for a roadhouse king meal? sure it's still shitty food but it's less shitty and cheaper. The ONLY thing McDonalds has going for it is for whatever reason their coffee is still cheaper than tim hortons or anywhere else. so the coffee is cheap but everything else is more expensive. I don't get it.

very much this. server with navidrome and a soulseek script to download spotify and youtube playlists.

yeah the title is weird. how I read it is that the WoW director says that there would be no reason to hide the fact that it would be coming to consoles and thus that's not an excuse for the game potentially easier.

won't work. Evidently The Maldives have never heard of this thing we like to call "history".