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he doesn’t care about the players… 40% of which are not white, nearly 30% are foreign-born… but there might be a couple who have given him money or sucks-up to him in ‘other ways’…

he really only ‘cares’ about the wealthy owners who give him money.

even without shady stuff. it’s just common sense. disconnect the ‘computer’ from the ‘display’ so you don’t need to replace both when the ‘computer’ becomes obsolete–and it will, usually, before the ‘display’ quits working. don’t connect it. if you want ‘smart tv’ functionality, get a cheaper and easier-to-replace streaming device of your choice instead.

beware of models or brands you have to go online with just to ‘set up’. more and more are ‘requiring’ internet access and/or an ‘account’ just to turn on and use as a ‘dumb’ display.

or sooner.

warframe is only ‘grindy’ if you make it that way. it can totally be a ‘play whenever’ affair if you let it.

now that’s a happy ending.

this will end even worse than you’re imagining it would.

the warpinator repo gives a couple sources for third-party windows builds. the site you are asking about is not one of the links provided.

don’t trust it.

the actual linuxmint warpinator repo readme points to this third-party windows build (because mint does not provide windows binaries themselves):

https://github.com/slowscript/warpinator-windows/releases

literal pump and dump in the making.

pump the upcoming ipo, dump before bottom falls out.

gotta inflate those ipo so everybody (that they choose) ‘wins’.

you watch them. why can’t they watch you?

they’ve done it before, they’ll do it again… and again… and again… because people keep giving them more money.

you can add it, and switch at login. there’s a cinnamon spin of ubuntu, so packages are in the repos. you’ll also find meta packages assembled by both ubuntu and debian that will install what their respective ‘full desktop experience’ has (browser, libreoffice, utilities, and what-not).

i just switched back to debian for personal desktops after years of mint (and a few others). i’m using intel cards right now… drivers are a total non-issue… so that helps some, not having to deal with nvidia drivers. games are running great on stable kernel and drivers (heroic flatpak for launcher and wine).

you can have your ‘start button’ in the bottom left if you want, and still have the panel going up the left edge instead of along the bottom.

the panel on the side. it just makes sense–if you can get ‘used to’ it.

screens are wider than they are tall, but most content viewed by or worked on by most people goes vertical: web sites and text documents. hell, even most pictures and video people take these days, too, because they still don’t know enough to rotate their damn phones.

i almost went cinnamon when i set up my trixie here last month, but went plasma because of some kwin addons. i did install its nemo, though, for when i need a file manager that doesn’t choke on thumbnails (like dolphin does) when an extension doesn’t match what the file actually is (like a lot of images served by web sites and saved by a browser these days)

you should use firefox and turn off the ‘ai’ crap (one toggle) if you don’t want it. a few more clicks turns off the ‘sponsored’ stuff and ‘telemetry’. if that’s too much for you, then librewolf. zen, perhaps, if you want something a lil’ different.

a couple minutes to click through vivaldi’s settings will turn off all the annoying stuff (similar to firefox, but firefox is quicker to ‘set up’). i’ve never seen it re-enable things like microsoft loves to do.

vivaldi is what i use for a chromium-based browser when i need to check web client ‘compatibility’; and i like that you can customize the toolbar (like you can in firefox)… i move the back-forward stuff to the right side of the address box, and add the separate search box (so suggestions can be enabled in it but off for searches in address bar).

el niño is coming. weather extremes and storms usually come along for the ride.