Ya but they started the always online DRM for single player games back with AC2 and the lawsuits about the companies culture of sexual harassment/assault

Don’t buy Ubisoft games. They’re the epitome of trash culture in game publishing

It’s been like 4-5 years since I’ve purchased a Ubisoft game. There’s too many games out there to be spending money on a trash publishers games. Along with how slp on the wrist it seemed with their workplace sexual harassment/bullying/assault, always remember that they pioneered always online DRM for single player games. They’ve been a trash company publicly for almost 20 years. Culturally probably longer

Pretty certain the rate of increase will accelerate over years. Even moreso outside of the USA. Good news for getting more attention to other open source software not just the kernel and core OS utils.

Right now it’s not packaged up for easy use but KDE has supported Raspberry Pi’s for ages so I wouldn’t be surprised if you ran Plasma desktop, it’d be simple to build and install. I’d wait until they got it back onto the KDE release cadence with everything else though for simplicity

For anyone who wants to test this out, you can do as Devin did by installing Plasma Bigscreen on a Raspberry Pi using postmarketOS, though you would have to compile it yourself or pull from the nightly repos to get the latest changes.

Everyone I know around my age that have purchased either bought before 2019 in the smaller cities of Texas where it was a house or it was sometime 2020-2022 when rates were sub 4% and home prices didn’t explode yet and those were condos. Also everyone was dual income or it was to co-own a house. I know one person that purchased by themselves but they sleep in the smallest room and rent out every other room to siblings and friends

Since some point in 2022, the only people I know that bought a home were a married late 30s couple that were high income and the home was like 70+ years old and a pipe burst and there turned out to be a lot of mold that made it unlivable for a period of time

That also reminds me and some troubles of picking breakfast with some people. Some people really need pancakes/waffles with butter and syrup for breakfast. Or something similarly sweet and fatty.

Bagel with what looks and feels to me when eating, an insane amount of cream cheese. At least that I can ask for a thin swipe

I didn’t realize until around like 2016 realizing from a steady stream of new coworkers out of high school to fresh college grads talking about their doctor telling them they were prediabetic. Then lunchtime with them either they brought from home or purchased during work lunch time, I didn’t realize how many families made juice/soda and desert a part of every meal. Bag of chips or slice of cake or it wasn’t a full meal so it was hard for these now adults to feel complete without a sugary drink and either a fried salty snack or sweet pastry

People snack during the day, and for many that means smaller main meals, but some people snack equivalent of whole meals. Like 3 meals a day plus the equivalent of at least one more just in unfocused regular downing of small bites, whether in reasonable amounts healthy or like mini slim jim’s, and energy drinks

The hardest online privacy is not operating in a way that just links all your “private” activity because you logged in around enough places to link them together and at least one place somewhere can be linked to your real identity

Any bit of user base growth helps get the ball rolling for future MS/USA missteps. Linux has just been getting better and easier year after year. It’s been a 30 year marathon ready for another 30+ years of development

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I’m happy to use Flatpaks but the annoyances I’ve had are like when one application says to use you’ll need to point to the binary of another application that it depends on but very understandably doesn’t package together, figuring that out to me can be annoying so I’ll switch to a regular installation and it all just works together no fuss, no flatseal, no thinking about it really. Also some applications where it’s really nice to launch from the terminal especially with arguments or just like the current working directory and with Flatpaks instead of just right off the bat it’s application name and hit enter, Flatpak hope you remember the whole package name

org.wilson.spalding.runner.knife.ApplicationName …

Ya alias but got to remember to do that. So far anything I’d ever want to run from terminal, no Flatpak

Tl;dr: If you have a good paying job, you should consider getting over the distance for it and find fulfillment outside of work

One thing I’ve learned with age is that everyone complains about their jobs. Everyone. Even the most idealistic jobs. Filmmakers, painters, community organizers/outreach, your everyday local DJ doing any event that’ll hire them, doctor, scientist, tradesperson, etc.

Anecdotal, but practically every freelance artist I’ve met has been like, “if you can find a steady 9-5 corporate gig, take it so you can have a chance at being able to live a normal life. It’s too late for me.” As in the years of constantly having to market themselves, look for contract after contract, constantly traveling because often times your best shot at making it as a videographer is doing remote shoots weeks at a time, constantly budgeting just to make rent and keep your going to next gig, learning about the costs of health insurance and that it gets higher as you age, every other type of insurance they didn’t think about until they were a freelancer, etc has made them into a bit of a scatterbrain and kind of selfish. Reasonably selfish as it’s unstable work and your relationships are constantly distant and passing. But still selfish. So ya, I always hear don’t be like me as a freelancer because it’s really hard to live the nice idyllic life without the time to build out a committed to home community. Like, “I wish I could work a normal job but mentally I can’t do it anymore so I keep freelancing.”

Community organizers/outreach, non-profits. Anecdotal again but I’m used to hearing from non-management employees about how little they trust organizational leadership to care for them. Very often the phrase I hear is, “these non-profits don’t care about us” and a co-worker say, “preach, amen.” Doing good work but unless you’re in leadership, you’re working poverty wages and at some point most will start questioning what they’ve even accomplished and how much longer can they do this and whether they deserve better in life than poverty wages as a social/political outreach employee. Those that don’t work the job will always gush about the work to them and make it awkward and unlikely for the workers to tell people how they feel about the job rather than the mission. Ideally a fulfilling job turns to a fulfilling mission not job, to then neither and wanting a good paying job

Everyone thinks grass is greener and people think they can just get into the trades and make big money. There’s the cost of training and apprenticeship. Then there’s the grind to journeyman. Then there’s the low chance of being one of the ones to run their own business and doing so is a trade-off of work-life balance. Make more money owning your own trade shop but until if ever you make it to owning a fleet of vehicles hiring a bunch of tradesperson, you’re going to be working insane hours

Work for a company as a tradesperson and you’ll have better work life balance but just solid pay eventually that’ll cap out lower than some office job where you can move up into corporate stuff.

One thing that hit me talking around was a tradesperson telling me that in the trades you don’t have downtime. You can’t let yourself chit chat with a client pausing work or else everything gets delayed, you can’t take as many clients as you need and operations can fall apart by being too social on the job. You don’t have time to just scroll on your phone randomly throughout the day.

The other being hearing stuff like trades jobs feel worse than playing on the line in football. At least in football you’re mostly upright and when you fall you fall but it’s all mostly deliberate and comfortable games and workouts. Trades you’re moving your body to fit places that place weird strain on your body for 8+ hours a day. You inhale all sorts of whatever. You may be doing work where shavings of whatever is constantly flying around getting all over your clothing at least but also any bit of skin that it gets to through the day. Shit can be real loud regardless of ear protection. Could be lifting steel beams that are heavy as shit over and over for hours of the day

Like people will lift weights for 1-2 hours a day cycling muscle groups different days of the week. Take some days off. People will still get workout injuries from overuse or tiny mistakes. Trades, it’ll be the same muscles and joints day in and day out 8+ hours a day

Regardless you got to do what you got to do to survive and trades are good respectable work that deliver a service and can raise a family. Anecdotal but old tradespeople that have gotten over the machismo have always told me I and anyone should get over the grass is greener mentality. They didn’t just start making $100k+ doing a trade. It was mediocre for a decade+ until they sniffed $100k and by then their body was already aching and they could legit try to start their own business where they’d now have to work more hours to hopefully someday just be the boss rather than the boss that also works every job as well

People in office jobs that required degrees that gave them starting wages over like $70k with clear growth prospects looking to get into trades for self-fullfillment, get some hobbies you can do with friends and alone. Make some friends. Use the energy you’re not spending crawling around breathing in who knows what to become really good at cooking so that people want to have cookouts with you

The data I’ve seen is that it’s mainly bad on the entry level

https://www.newsweek.com/computer-science-popular-college-major-has-one-highest-unemployment-rates-2076514

But this is focused on comparing college degree outcomes in entry level rather than degree + non-degree. Also the longer term studies that consider career outcomes degree vs trade vs non-degree/trade certifications long term regardless of career path

Everyone’s got anecdotes but I swear I’ve been hearing the same thing about trades jobs where proof is anecdotes and then data paints it as generally worse than a university degree

https://fortune.com/2025/07/02/gen-z-ditching-college-secure-trade-jobs-blue-collar-electricians-and-plumbers-worst-unemployment-rate-than-office-jobs/

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-entry-level-jobs/3716

I’d suggest young people not rely on anecdotes and focus on data. Don’t trust a person when they say they’re happy with their office job or their trades job. Don’t trust strangers/people you barely ever talk to to be truthful about the condition of their health; most people spare people the weight of knowing their mental and physical struggles

Instead look at unemployment rates per profession that you’re considering. Depression rates. Suicide rates. Salary trajectory and median wage by career stage. Like early, mid, senior, and wage at retirement. There’s data out there for some professions like average yearly medical costs by age in profession. Average benefits value like health/dental/vision/401k match/etc data.

It’s a ton to really consider but the ones that are able to do so without just shutting off their brains and turning off the web browser from stress/frustration will have done themselves a favor

The whole of Fedora atomic distros are interesting in an exercise in getting good with layering and distrobox. Pop_os 24.04 just to see if a third pillar of Linux frontends with GTK and Qt is viable. People are always pissy about Manjaro but they seem to have an interesting present being pre installed on the Orange Pi Neo handheld

Just searched degoogle in Lemmy

https://lemmy.world/c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

There are levels to it. The advanced level is using a custom Android ROM for your phone that has no Google play services/apps on it and that’ll depend on what’s available for your phone from community ROM makers. You can see if any of these support your phone or plan any future phone of yours around these

https://itsfoss.com/android-distributions-roms/

An easier first step is just starting with non-Google apps. You can start with replacing Google apps like replace Maps with Organic Maps or something similar. Replace Gmail with something like Proton Mail. Same with calendar and cloud storage. Proton has alternatives. They even have an okay Google docs feature. Use a different search engine like duckduckgo rather than Google.

F-droid as an app store. Instead of Google authenticator use Aegis. Instead of Chrome use Firefox or a fork of it.

It’s difficult so a process over time of lessening dependency on Google applications

I swear all of this was predicted to happen by open source advocates of the 80s and they’d be called alarmists/whatever and then 30 years later you had Snowden leaks and all the surveillance bills and now Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all advertisement companies mining data through the software and devices they sell

The best people can do is just keep using and advocating for Linux adoption. Try out degoogled Android or a more traditional Linux phone device. Need more users and funding to get the software kinks worked out. They’re not as good as the high end Android and Apple stuff, but it’s a process