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  • No, you’re a human. All of us have generally done shitty things, especially when we were teenagers and were exceptionally shitty versions of ourselves. You’re not “marked by sin” or whatever religious nonsense some people like to say, none of what you did then has to define your present or your future. If anything, feeling bad about the things you did in the past shows that you have grown up, learned some empathy, and become a better person.




  • If it was just one extra manual step, it’d be fine. In my experience working with Nvidia drivers on Mint and later Ubuntu, it’s more like 15 extra steps and some things still don’t work. Sure, it’s better than dealing with Windows 11, but from my experience it has not felt like less hassle than getting games running on Windows 10. Maybe that’s just an Nvidia issue, and I certainly would love to upgrade to an AMD system for better Vulkan support, but that’s not happening anytime soon.


  • III. Little Jimmy doesn’t really need to, because the amount of times that windows update completely bricks your drivers is pretty low. You’re clearly overestimating the driver issues that people experience with Nvidia or otherwise on Windows. Neither myself nor any of the people I know have ever experienced any significant driver-based issues while playing on Windows, and the truth is that the vast majority of Windows users do not even need to know what a graphics driver is to be able to easily play games on Windows.

    Yeah it’s great that AMD support seems to be great and I agree that Nvidia sucks as a company, but I’m not the one claiming Linux is the greatest gaming system.


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    3 days ago

    Biggest one is going to remain gaming. If anything, I’m beginning to feel like Steam Proton is starting to harm Linux gaming efforts more than helping them. I’ve known games that have dropped native Linux support because “It works on Proton!” only for the game to not actually work on Proton.

    If we could get to a world where every game could actually be run on Linux with minimal hassle, maybe then you can beat the drum that there’s no point using Windows. Until then, it’s going to remain the OS for gaming.







  • The goal of the instructions is to be vague so students feel like they can write about really anything without being penalized. We could have very specific criteria that would likely produce better essays on average, but the goal isn’t for us to receive good essays; again, it’s just to get an idea of who the student is. Otherwise in addition to “no sob stories,” we’d need “no sports essays, no writing about your parents, no religious trauma etc.” We don’t want to be dictating what students write.

    It’s also not to say that every student writing about the circumstances they’ve gone through is a bad essay. I read an excellent one this year from a student who immigrated from the Dominican Republic and faced a lot of racism. They linked their experience to the broader cultural decay that America is experiencing though, and the real topic of the essay was the hypocrisy present throughout the messaging of the American hegemony; how we often preach diversity while actually hating it. They didn’t try to focus the essay on themselves and their circumstances, they just related what they experienced to a larger topic they were clearly passionate about.

    If we had a big warning that said “No sob stories,” we might not have received that essay, and that student might not have received an award.