My main original Skyrim play through on desktop was 100 hours.
My Skyrim VR play through was 200 hours. I think in 2019. So fun.
"Somebody set up us the bomb SAM."
Yeah now it's "will it speedrun DOOM?"
I recently had a similar experience. I used Linux Mint for the longest time, which is ubuntu based. And I tried LMDE for a little bit recently.
But then I decided to try straight Debian 13 w/ KDE Plasma. I absolutely love it, and I'm old enough that seeing
starting Debian GNU/Linux
just feels cozy and correct. Plus like you said the speed and stability are somehow even better, but that I had issues before.
I thought with them it was more about the entire device than just the OS. People might say they love their mac but nobody is telling friends & family to just install macOS on that old PC that's losing Microsoft support.
Oh I agree. The documents should get dumped in full and we should treat the survivors with the grace and generosity they deserve.
Then maybe we think of some ways to stop putting greedy psychopaths into positions of power!
Our culture is completely on board with ruining both of these ideas, though.
Americans born in the 40s and 50s had such a gilded path set out before them by WW2, and now they think that young people can't afford homes because of starbucks and avocado toast.
Remember how innocent we were the FIRST time Trump bombed Iran and we thought he was starting world war 3? Such sweet summer children were we.
They are under no obligation to, of course, but I wish we'd see the victims band together and ask that any & all parties with access to the full unredacted files release them immediately. Zero redactions.
There are so many victims though, that you can't just get them on a stage together on TV. And surely some will still not want to be outed.
100% agreed. I agreed more with each paragraph.
Your last sentence hit on what I think is a contributing if not primary driving factor in the health crisis you described.
It's like the goal of modern society is to insulate us from the natural world and from learning subjects or doing tasks that we don't absolutely have to.
But we are critters that evolved on this planet just like the others. You can't just live a commoditized life that consists of work, car, screen, sleep, repeat and get the same fulfillment out of life as if you found the unique path that's optimized for your unique brain.
Not acknowledging that everything jacks with your head to SOME degree only prevents you from trying to defend yourself as best you can!
Over the past several years I have gone through a transition from living life the way I was supposed to, or that I thought I wanted to, to living according to what produces the best outputs from my brain. Once I have the lived experience of an undeniable improvement from some change, it might actually become a habit.
It isn't necessarily a linear correlation where you can pick the cutoff that best suits your personality and politics.
The technology and the act of surveillance don't just slide you up the safety/privacy slope. They carry their own risks that can REDUCE safety while still paying the privacy trade off. And it is not predictable.
And that (plus caring about people) is why I don't support the Leopards Eating Faces coalition even though I'm an old white educated native-born male USian.
Oh I don't doubt that it would suck at it. It would just hold a lot of the heat within itself, eventually, lol.