whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]

Software worked out of the box much more reliably. I miss certain software but there’s nothing I haven’t found a happy replacement for. There’s a little nostalgia in there somewhere but honestly the feeling is mostly good riddance

You accused the Chinese of being illiterate and I provided statistical evidence. The paragraph you wrote maligning Chinese literacy rates literally starts off with “does anybody have any statistics”.

You reject the statistical evidence because you personally can’t believe it. The rest of the world believes it. Nobody gives a fuck about your opinion when you are so wrong, so many times, in such relatively short comment.

If we can just personally dismiss things we don’t believe in, evidence, statistics, and facts be damned then I don’t believe in you. Are you an actual thinking person with a brain or sinophobic caricature impervious to evidence?

I don’t have time to go through everything wrong with your post but I want to touch on Chinese vs American literacy rates for a moment

In America while the total population literacy rate is often cited at 99%, functional literacy (the ability to manage daily living and employment tasks) is lower, with estimates placing it between 65% and 85%.

China’s literacy rate has grown from 79% in 1982 to 97% in 2020.

In 2018 PISA results,15-year-olds in China outperformed U.S. peers in reading, math, and science. Some analyses suggest about 20% of U.S. 15-year-olds do not read as well as they should by age 10.

In the 2018 PISA China ranked first globally in all subjects. The U.S. ranked roughly 13th in reading and 37th in math among 79 education systems

Youth literacy in the U.S. is facing a crisis, with 25% of 16-to-24-year-olds deemed functionally illiterate as of 2023, up from 16% in 2017. Roughly 60% of U.S. teens do not read at grade level, and 34% of fourth-graders perform below basic reading levels.

In 2020, youth (15–24) literacy in China reached 100%.

Now I’m personally a Fedora KDE user but my wife’s 2017 era gaming PC runs Ubuntu flawlessly, it’s got an Nvidia GPU in it too. I think a lot of the issues you hear about Ubuntu basically boil down to user error. My wife occasionally will struggle with something on the machine but I’ll pop on and fix it pretty quickly. I imagine if she didn’t have me in house to troubleshoot she would be one of the people complaining about Ubuntu.

I’ve honestly been pretty impressed with Ubuntu using it on her machine; only thing wrong with Ubuntu is Canonical lol

I’m not much of a gamer anymore, I only play stuff from the prepandemic, mostly 10+ year old games but tbh Linux works great for everything. Mostly been using Steam on both Ubuntu and Fedora KDE but it works flawlessly so long as you have your graphics drivers configured correctly.

I haven’t tried to pirate any games or install anything with WINE/Lutris so I can’t comment on that but I did manage to get the non-Steam Windows only version of Final Fantasy 14 working for my wife using a third party launcher. I got the impression doing that that an adept user would easily be able to set up standalone or pirated games without much trouble

My kitty will smell it and then wipe his paw on the ground a few times indicating that he thinks I should bury it. Same motion he does after he throws up on the hardwood as if to communicate he knows it smells bad and would bury it if he could

Italian cuisine is only good when your only frame of reference is other European foods. It’s like talking about the best thing on the menu at McDonald’s

America today reminds me more of America from the late 19 century around the time of the Spanish-American War than the Third Reich. Third Reich was even heavily inspired by that period of American history

The happy medium would be Fedora KDE

I got three 2012 MacBook Pros I run different operating systems on. They handle Linux great, even the little 13" one with the i5 and no GPU/dedicated VRAM